Dr. Ramachandran is an Assistant Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has extensive experience studying the relationship between brain activity and behavior, as well as in noise-induced hearing loss, particularly from the neurophysiological perspective. Since completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Ramachandran has been conducting research to further refine the understanding of the neural pathways, circuitry, and signaling that underlie hearing-related functions in noisy environments for the past two decades. Utilizing this research as a baseline, the research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center continues to explore neural responses to noise-induced hearing loss, better understanding the discrepancies between normal and hearing-impaired subjects in encoding sound stimuli. For his studies, he primarily uses behavioral, neurophysiological, and non-invasive audiological methods, as well as computer modeling.