Daryush Mehta

Dr. Mehta is Director of the Voice Science and Technology Laboratory at the MGH Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation, Assistant Professor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the MGH Institute, and faculty affiliate in the Harvard Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology. At the MGH Institute, he supervises graduate students interested in conducting research in voice and voice disorders.

His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health to investigate the details of the relationship between the motion of the vocal folds (the "voice box") and the acoustics of voice production. His expertise is in signal processing and acoustic voice analysis, bringing these engineering tools to clinical voice research. He has developed many voice-enabled technologies, including endoscopic imaging systems and wearable sensors, where the overall goal is to aid voice surgeons and speech-language pathologists in better understanding the mechanisms of normal and disordered voice production.

In 2015, Dr. Mehta received the prestigious Award for Early Career Contributions in Research from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Research Interests

Clinical voice and speech assessment Wearable sensors for real-world voice monitoring Novel voice and speech processing

Education

BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Florida SM, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology