Glen de Vries Dean, Mellon College of Science
Director, Neuroscience Institute
George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor, Auditory Neuroscience, Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham became the Director of the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute in 2018. Before joining Carnegie Mellon, she spent over twenty years on the faculty of Boston University (first in Cognitive and Neural Systems, and later in Biomedical Engineering). Her innovative work in auditory neuroscience has been recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, and the Vannevar Bush Fellows program. She has held numerous elected and appointed leadership positions in professional organizations such as the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the Acoustical Society of America, and serves as on numerous advisory boards within both academia and industry.
1986 Sc.B., Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude, Brown University
1988 M.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1994 Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology