Assistant Professor of Audiology
PhD
Dr. Hasna Fathima
Dr. Hasna Fathima completed her postdoctoral training at Baylor University, USA, where she studied bimodal hearing, spectral mismatch, and electrode mapping, and designed new work on formant cue integration. With over a decade of experience in research, teaching, and clinical practice, she specializes in cochlear implants, psychoacoustics, and auditory neuroscience, and has experience in preparing and securing research grants.
She earned her Ph.D. from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE, where she contributed to establishing a spatial listening lab and studied bilateral and bimodal implant simulations, electrode strategies, and interaural time difference cues. She also served for over a decade at the National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH), Kerala, India, contributing to teaching, research mentorship, clinical diagnostics, and establishing a newborn hearing screening program. In addition, she brings clinical expertise in audiological diagnostics, auditory processing disorders, and hearing aid and cochlear implant management.
Her current research focuses on binaural cue encoding, spectral and temporal processing, and implant programming, incorporating signal processing and auditory simulations using MATLAB and Python. She is passionate about science outreach, delivering public talks and writing articles that make auditory research accessible to general audiences.