Yixuan Zhang

Research employee

Research and Interests

• Computational modeling - finite element simulation of electrically stimulated human cochlea
• Models of the auditory periphery
• Auditory nerve fiber - neural health estimation
• Cochlear implant (CI) focused stimulation

Funding

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – SFB/TRR-298-SIIRI – Project-ID 426335750
• European Research Council (ERC): Rehabilitation and Diagnosis of Hearing Loss based on Electric Acoustic Interaction (ReadiHear), Project number: 101044753

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications:

• Y. Zhang, D. Kipping, W. Nogueira (2025): Evaluating electrophysiological and behavioral measures of neural health in cochlear implant users: a computational simulation study. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Data avaliable: GitLab.

• D. Kipping, Y. Zhang, W. Nogueira (2024): A Computational Model of the Electrically or Acoustically Evoked Compound Action Potential in Cochlear Implant Users with Residual Hearing. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Source code: Zenodo or GitLab.

Conference contributions (first author):

• Y. Zhang, F. Alvarez, D. Kipping, W. Nogueira (2024): A 3D computational model framework of the stimulated peripheral auditory system. Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology(VCCA2024).
• Y. Zhang, D. Kipping, W. Nogueira (2025): Neural health and activation in the human auditory periphery: Insights from a computational model for cochlear implant (CI) and auditory nerve implant (ANI) stimulation. Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology(VCCA2025).

Supervision of students

• Y. Xi (2024): Optimization and validation of an electrical stimulated 3D model of the human inner. Srudent research project. Supervisor: Y. Zhang. Examiners: Prof. P. Junker & Prof. W. Nogueira.