#  Harvard Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology 

 



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Harvard SHBT is an innovative, interdisciplinary doctoral program that trains researchers in basic science, translational medicine, and engineering approaches to the field of human communication.

SHBT faculty and students pursue research questions related to all areas of communication, including hearing, vestibular, taste, smell, voice, speech, language and music. This includes auditory neuroscience, signal processing, perception and cognition, and speech-language pathology, combining rigorous training in a range of rigorous scientific disciplines with valuable exposure to clinical practice.

SHBT includes more than 50 faculty members and roughly 46 students at various stages in their doctoral work, operating out of more than 50 different labs at Harvard, MIT, and the Harvard teaching hospitals.



 

  [### SHBT Virtual Open House

 ](/news/2026/05/shbt-virtual-open-house) May 13, 2026 

 SHBT will be hosting 2 Virtual Open Houses in September and October. These session will give you a chance of learning about our programs and meet current students and faculty. Details will be posted in our apply page. SHBT will also be attending the HILS... 

 

 

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   [### World Voice Day 2026

 ](/news/2026/04/world-voice-day-2026) April 15, 2026 

 To commemorate World Voice Day 2026, SHBT is spotlighting a faculty member and her two students. Dr. Kristina Simonyan leads the Dystonia and Speech Motor Control Laboratory at Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, and she mentors Nyah Kshatriya... 

 

 

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   [### 2026 World Hearing Day

 ](/news/2026/03/2026-world-hearing-day) March 03, 2026 

 Corena Loeb and Chin-Ju (Ginnie) Hu are both sixth-year graduate students in the Harvard PhD Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT). Their dissertation advisor is Dr. David Corey, a professor in the Department of Neurobiology at... 

 

 

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