Yu-Hsiang Wu was an otolaryngologist in Taiwan. After realizing that conducting research is an important way to help people with hearing loss, he moved to the U.S. to pursue a PhD. Since then, he focused his interest in directional microphone technology and completed numerous research projects. Currently he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the University of Iowa. His long-term research goal is developing accurate, sensitive, and efficient methodologies to determine success of hearing health care. These methodologies include acoustic/electroacoustic measures for hearing aids and behavioral/perceptual outcome measures for human subjects following rehabilitative intervention.
Octav Chipara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa and part of the Aging Mind and Brain Initiative. He received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California San Diego. His research focuses on the systems, networking, and software engineering aspects of developing mobile health (mHealth) systems that continuously monitor and infer the health status of patients in spite of operating in dynamic environments and on limited battery resources. The central theme of his research is that in order to harness the full potential of mHealth systems, we must have better tools for programming and analyzing their properties. His work combines the design of communication protocols, middleware, and software tools with large-scale real-world deployments of working systems.