Rate My Professor Fan-Gang Zeng

Fan-Gang Zeng is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Hearing Research. He earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1990. Zeng's research centers on the diagnosis and treatment of hearing and speech disorders, with emphases on auditory neuropathy, cochlear implants, auditory neuroscience, tinnitus, hyperacusis, and speech processing. He holds joint appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Anatomy and Neurobiology, and Cognitive Sciences. Zeng founded the Hearing and Speech Laboratory at UCI in 2000, which conducts basic and translational research on mechanisms of normal and pathological hearing, relationships between hearing loss and cognitive decline, and treatments such as electric stimulation for hearing loss, tinnitus, and hyperacusis. Key publications include "Loudness-coding mechanisms inferred from electric stimulation of the human auditory system" in Science (1994), "Speech recognition with primarily temporal cues" in Science (1995), and "Temporal and speech processing deficits in Auditory Neuropathy" in NeuroReport (1999). He is an International Member of the National Academy of Engineering (elected 2023) and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2007), the Acoustical Society of America (2010), and IEEE (2011). Zeng is also a member of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (2008) and participates in doctoral and postdoctoral training programs across multiple UCI departments while engaging in community outreach through organizations such as the American Tinnitus Association.