Our People

Malinda J. McPherson

Assistant Professor

mjmcp@purdue.edu

I received my PhD in 2022 from the Harvard/MIT Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology program, and I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT and UCSD. During my PhD, I was funded by a National Institutes of Health F31 grant and by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. I have received the Weintraub Graduate Student Award from Fred Hutch and was named to the 2022 Forbes “30 Under 30” list in science. As a Churchill Scholar, I completed my MPhil at the University of Cambridge Centre for Music and Science. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Aidan J. Seidle

Research Associate

I completed my bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science with a specialization in Computing and minor in Music Industry at UCLA in the spring of 2024.
I am interested in complex sounds and how our brain processes them — specifically, artificial and biologically faithful computational representations of the auditory system.