Curriculum vitae

Professional experience

2007 -	Research Scientist Speech Communication Group Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
2009 -	Faculty Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
2005 -	Research Fellow Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University Boston, MA, USA
2004 - 2006	Postdoctoral Associate Speech Communication Group Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999 - 2004	Graduate Research Assistant Speech Lab, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University
1999 - 2000	Teaching Fellow Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University
1997 - 1998	Software Engineer Media for Learning Group Kent Ridge Digital Labs (now Institute for Infocomm Research) Singapore
1996 - 1997	Teaching Assistant Department of Computer Science National University of Singapore

Education

2004	Ph.D.	Cognitive and Neural Systems	Boston University
1997	B.S. (Honors)	Computer Science	National University of Singapore

Awards Received

Singapore Airlines/Neptune Orient Lines	1994-1997
Undergraduate Fellowship
Dean’s List, National University of Singapore	1995
Presidential University Graduate Fellowship	1998
Boston University
Graduate Teaching Fellow Award	2000
Boston University
Student stipend, International Society for	2008
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Grants

2008-2010 R03 Principal Investigator NIBIB

“Dissemination of software for artifact detection and functional analysis of parcellated imaging data”

Professional service

Ad-hoc reviewer

Grants:

• National Science Foundation, USA
• National Medical Research Council, Singapore

Papers:

• Journal of Neuroscience
• Current biology
• Human Brain Mapping
• Neuroimage
• Biological Psychiatry
• Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research
• Brain and Language

Publications

Papers in Refereed Journals

1. Nieto-Castanon, A., Ghosh, S.S., Tourville, J.A. and Guenther, F.H. (2003) Region of interest based analysis of functional imaging data. Neuroimage. 19(4): 1303-16.
2. Max, L., Guenther, F.H., Gracco, V.L., Ghosh, S.S. and Wallace, M.E. (2004) Unstable or insufficiently activated internal models and feedback-biased motor control as sources of dysfluency: A theoretical model of stuttering. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders. 31.
3. Guenther, F.H., Nieto-Castanon, A., Ghosh, S.S. and Tourville, J.A. (2004) Representation of sound categories in auditory cortical maps. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 47(1): 46-57.
4. Klein, A., Mensh, B., Ghosh, S.S., Tourville, J. and Hirsch, J. (2005) Mindboggle: Automated brain labeling with multiple atlases. BMC Medical Imaging, 5:7.
5. Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S. and Tourville, J.A. (2006) Neural modeling and imaging of the cortical interactions underlying syllable production. Brain and Language. 96(3):280-301.
6. Ghosh, S.S., Tourville, J.A. and Guenther, F.H. (2008) A neuroimaging study of premotor lateralization and cerebellar involvement in the production of phonemes and syllables. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 51(5):1183-202.

Proceedings in Refereed Conferences

1. Ghosh, S.S., Nieto-Castanon, A., Tourville, J.A. and Guenther, F.H. (2001) ROI-based analysis of fMRI data incorporating individual differences in brain anatomy. NeuroImage, Vol 13, Issue 6, Supplement 1, June, Page 125.
2. Guenther, F.H., Nieto-Castanon, A., Tourville, J.A. and Ghosh, S.S. (2001) The effects of categorization training on auditory perception and cortical representations. Proceedings of the Speech Recognition as Pattern Classification (SPRAAC) Workshop, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
3. Ghosh, S.S., Bohland, J. and Guenther, F.H. (2003) Comparisons of brain regions involved in overt production of elementary phonetic units. Neuroimage, Presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York, USA. 19(2): S57.
4. Guenther, F.H. and Ghosh, S.S. (2003) A model of cortical and cerebellar function in speech. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 169-173). Barcelona, Spain: 15th ICPhS Organizing Committee.
5. Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S. and Nieto-Castanon, A. (2003) A neural model of speech production. Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production. Sydney, Australia
6. Purdon, P.L., Ghosh, S.S., Brown, E.N. and Bonmassar, G. (2005) A high-fidelity headphone system for simultaneous EEG/fMRI experiments. Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Meeting, Florida, USA.
7. Tourville, J.A., Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S., Reilly, K.J. and Bohland, J. (2005) Effects of acoustic and articulatory perturbation on cortical activity during speech production. Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 12-16, 2005, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Available on CD-Rom in NeuroImage, Vol. 26, No.1.
8. Ghosh, S.S. and Bohland, J. (2005) A speech recording setup for fMRI with online reduction of scanner noise. Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 12-16, 2005, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Available on CD-Rom in NeuroImage, Vol. 26, No.1.
9. Dickerson, B.C., Miller, S. and Ghosh, S.S. (2006) An fMRI system for studying overt free recall: Preliminary data demonstrates hippocampal activation. Presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 11-15, 2006, Florence, Italy. NeuroImage, Vol. 31, Supplement 1, Page S163.
10. Tiede, M., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Johnson, B., Ghosh, S., Matthies, M., Zandipour, M. and Perkell, J. (2007) Gestural phasing in /kt/ sequences contrasting within and cross word contexts. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Saarbrücken, Germany: 16th ICPhS Organizing Committee.
11. Robin, D.A., Guenther, F.H., Narayana, S., Jacks, A., Tourville, J., Ramage, A.E., Lancaster, J.L., Franklin, C., Ghosh, S., Fox, P.T. (2008) A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Virtual Lesion Study of Speech. Proceedings of the conference on Speech Motor Control. Monterey, California, USA.
12. Perkell, J.S., Ghosh, S.S., Guenther, F.H., Lane, H., Mathies, M.L., Menard, L., Tiede, M.K. (2008) Mechanisms of Vowel Production: Auditory Goals and Speaker Acuity. Proceedings of the conference on Speech Motor Control. Monterey, California, USA.
13. Hinds, O., Gabrieli, S., Ofen, N., Yoo, J., Ghosh, S., Lala, N., Willingham, D., Triantafyllou, C., Gabrieli, J. (2008) Transitions of task-related brain activation during acquisition of a novel perceptual-motor mapping. Presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Melbourne, Australia.
14. Ghosh, S.S., Hamm, M., Jahns, K., Triantafyllou, C. (2008) Using High Resolution fMRI to identify individual-specific speech motor regions. XVIth conference of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Imaging, Toronto, Canada.
15. Balci, S.K., Sabuncu, M.R., Yoo, J, Ghosh, S.S., Whitefield-Gabrieli, S., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Golland, P. (2008) Prediction of Successful Memory Encoding from fMRI Data. In Proc. MICCAI Workshop on Analysis of Functional Medical Images, 97-104.
16. Cai, S, Boucek, M, Ghosh, S.S., Guenther, F.H., Perkell, J.S. (2008) A System for Online Dynamic Perturbation of Formant Trajectories and Results from Perturbations of the Mandarin Triphthong /iau/. International Seminar in Speech Production, Strassbourg, France.
17. Perkell, J.S., Lane, H., Ghosh, S.S., Matthies, M.L., Tiede, M., Guenther, F., Ménard, L. (2008) Mechanisms of Vowel Production: Auditory Goals and Speaker Acuity. International Seminar in Speech Production, Strassbourg, France.
18. Kovelman, I., Ghosh, S.S., O’Loughlin, P., Ostrovskaya, I., Perrachione, T. K., Lymberis, J., Norton E. S., Cosman, S., Wexler, K., Gabrieli J. D. E. (2009) Optional Infinitive: Evidence of How Adult Brain Processes Grammatical Errors that are Typical and Atypical of Childhood Language Acquisition. Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, San Francisco, California.
19. Thompson, T.W., Hinds, O., Ghosh, S., Lala, N., Triantafyllou, C., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Gabrieli, J. (2009). Training Selective Auditory Attention with Real-Time fMRI Feedback, NeuroImage, Volume 47, Supplement 1, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2009 Annual Meeting.
20. Klein, A., Ghosh, S.S., Parsey, R.V. (2009) An evaluation of volume- and surface-based nonlinear registration of human brain MRI data, NeuroImage, Volume 47, Supplement 1, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2009 Annual Meeting.
21. Ghosh, S.S., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Nieto-Castanon, A. (2009). A Python-based software package for pipelined, batch analysis of fMRI data, NeuroImage, Volume 47, Supplement 1, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2009 Annual Meeting.
22. Ghosh, S.S., Kovelman, I., Lymberis, J., Gabrieli, J.D. (2009) Incorporating hemodynamic response functions to improve analysis models for sparse-acquisition experiments, NeuroImage, Volume 47, Supplement 1, Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2009 Annual Meeting.

Other conferences

1. Guenther, F.H., Nieto-Castanon, A., Tourville, J.A. and Ghosh, S.S. (2000) The representation of prototypical and non-prototypical vowels in peri-sylvian cortical areas. Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, New Orleans, USA.
2. Tourville, J.A., Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S. and Bohland, J.W. (2004) Effects of jaw perturbation on cortical activity during speech production. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 2631.
3. Guenther, F.H., Ghosh, S.S., Nieto-Castanon, A. and Tourville, J.A. (2006) A neural model of speech production. In: J. Harrington & M. Tabain (eds.), Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques. London: Psychology Press.
4. Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., Ghosh, S., Menard, L., Lane, H., Tiede, M. and Guenther, F. (2006) Variation in vowel production. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120(5), 3293-3294.
5. Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Ghosh, S.S., Maas, E., Hanson, A., Guenther, F.H., Lane, H., Ménard, L., Tiede, M. (2008) Auditory and somatosensory goals for sibilants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123(5):3459.
6. Perrachione, T., Kovelman, I, Ostrovskaya, I., Lymberis, J., O’Loughlin, P., Norton, E., Ghosh, S.S., Gabrieli, J. (2009) Temporal and prefrontal cortical contributions to phonological working memory for words and pseudowords. Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, USA.
7. Ostrovskaya, I., Ghosh, S.S., Kovelman, I, Lymberis, J., O’Loughlin, P., Perrachione, T., Norton, E., Wexler, K., Gabrieli, J. (2009) Persistent markers of developmentally typical syntax errors in adult behavior and neurophysiology. Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, USA.

Talks

“Region of interest analysis of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging data.”

• Gabrieli Lab, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, July, 2007
• Department of Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, July, 2007
• Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, November, 2007

“Exploring speech motor control through computational modeling and neuroimaging.”

• Center for Life Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, November, 2007

“A Pypelined Approach to Neuroimaging Data Analysis”

• NITRC Grantee meeting, San Francisco, CA, June, 2009

Organization Membership

1. Organization for Human Brain Mapping
2. Society for Neuroscience
3. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Imaging

Provisional Patent applications

1. SS Ghosh. “Online noise suppression software for Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” Provisional patent application, August 2007.
2. SS Ghosh. “Bidirectional noise suppressing communication setup for Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” Provisional patent application, August 2007.