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Faculty & research

Jay Rubinstein

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Professor
Bioengineering

Professor
Otolaryngology

Biography

My research is aimed at alleviating hearing impairment with improved signal processing for cochlear implants and leveraging this technology to also treat balance disorders.

The Rubinstein and affiliated laboratories use physiological, psychophysical and computational techniques to develop improved signal processing for cochlear implants and related devices. We are also studying the effects of electrical stimulation of the human vestibular periphery in order to develop a vestibular prosthesis for balance disorders.


Education

  • PhD, Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1998
  • MD, University of Washington, 1987

Previous appointments

  • Fellowship–Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, WA, 1988
  • Fellowship–Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, MA, 1989-90
  • Fellowship–Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, WA, 1988

Select publications

  1. Moon IJ, Won JH, Park MH, Ives T, Nie K, Heinz M, Lorenzi C, and Rubinstein JT. Optimal combination of neural temporal envelope and fine structure cues to explain speech identification in background noise. J Neurosci, in press.
  2. Drennan WR, Oleson JJ, Gfeller K, Crosson J, Won JH, Anderson ES, Rubinstein JT. A multi-site, clinical study on the relationships among musical perception, appraisal and experience in cochlear implant users. Submitted to International Journal of Audiology, in press.
  3. Shim HL, Won JH, Moon IJ, Anderson E, Drennan W, McIntosh N, Weaver E and Rubinstein J. Can unaided non-linguistic measures predict cochlear implant candidacy? Otology & Neurotology, in press.
  4. Won JH, Shim HJ, Lorenzi C, Rubinstein JT. Use of amplitude modulation cues recovered from frequency modulation for cochlear implant users when original speech amplitude modulation cues are severely degraded. JARO 15(3):423-39, 2014.
  5. Anderson ES, Won JH, Rubinstein JT, Drennan WR. Validation of a clinical assessment of spectral ripple resolution for cochlear implant users. Ear and Hearing 35(3):e92-8, 2014.
  6. Golub JS, Ling L, Nie K, Nowack A, Shepherd SJ, Bierer SM, Jameyson E, Kaneko CRS, Phillips JO, Rubinstein JT. Prosthetic implantation of the human vestibular system. Otology & Neurotology 35(1):136-47, 2014.
  7. Phillips C, DeFrancisci C, Ling L, Nie K, Amy Nowack A, Phillips JO, Rubinstein JT. Postural responses to electrical stimulation of the vestibular end organs in human subjects. Experimental Brain Research 229(2):181-95, 2013.
  8. Li X, Nie K, Imennov NS, Rubinstein JT, Atlas LE. Improved Perception of Music with a Harmonic Based Algorithm for Cochlear Implants. IEEE Trans Neural Sys Rehab Engin 21(4):684-94, 2013.
  9. Nie K, Ling L, Bierer SM, Kaneko CRD, Fuchs AF, Oxford T, Rubinstein JT, Phillips JO. An Experimental Vestibular Neural Prosthesis: Design and Preliminary Results with Rhesus Monkeys Stimulated with Modulated Pulses. IEEE Trans Biomed Engineering 60(6):1685-92, 2013.
  10. Imennov NS, Won JH, Drennan WR, Jameyson E, Rubinstein JT. Perception of Within-Channel Temporal Cues in Cochlear Implant Listeners: Behavioral Results and Biophysical Modeling. Hearing Research 298:60-72, 2013.
  11. Jones G, Won JH, Drennan W, Rubinstein JT. Relationship between channel interaction and spectral-ripple discrimination in cochlear implant users. JASA 133(1):425-433, 2013.
  12. Phillips JO, Shepherd SJ, Nowack AL, Ling L, Bierer SM, Kaneko CRS, Phillips CMT, Nie K, Rubinstein JT. Longitudinal performance of a vestibular prosthesis as assessed by electrically evoked compound action potential recording. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 6128-6131 2012.
  13. Li X, Nie K, Imennov NS, Won JH Drennan WR, Rubinstein JT, Atlas LE. Improved perception of speech in noise and Mandarin tones with acoustic simulations of harmonic coding for cochlear implants. JASA 132(5):3387-98, 2012.
  14. Goldwyn J, Rubinstein JT, and Shea-Brown E. A point process framework for modeling electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. J Neurophysiol. 108:1430-52, 2012.
  15. Rubinstein, JT. Cochlear implants: the hazards of unexpected success. By invitation to the Canadian Medical Association Journal 184(12):1343-1344, 2012.

Honors & awards

  • 2013 President, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • 2012 Seattle Top Doctors
  • 2012-13 President-elect, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • 2010-11 Best Doctors in America
  • 2009-10 Best Doctors in America
  • 2009 Honor Award, American Academy of Otolaryngology – HNS
  • 2009-10 President, American Auditory Society
  • 2009 Presidential Citation, American Otologic Society
  • 2007-08 Best Doctors in America
  • 2007-08 President-elect, American Auditory Society
  • 2006 Elected to the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitae Sacrum
  • 2006 Elected Senior Member of the IEEE
  • 2005-06 Best Doctors in America
  • 2003-04 Boerhaave Professor, Leiden University, the Netherlands
  • 1992 American Academy of Otolaryngology Resident Research Grant
  • 1987 Alpha Omega Alpha
  • 1984-86 Poncin Scholarship Award
  • 1981 Sigma Xi
  • 1981 Honorary Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship