“Forbes” profiled a new initiative to provide low-cost hearing aids to children in Jordan by utilizing 3D printing technology, which aims to help meet a profound need for hearing care in the developing world.
The Hearing Restoration Project (HRP) is an international consortium of researchers dedicated to finding cure(s) for hearing loss and tinnitus. HRP scientists work to understand how to regenerate dead or inactive inner ear hair cells in the mouse with the ultimate aim of replicating this process to restore hearing in humans.
Prior to joining Starkey, Bhowmik was vice president and general manager of the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel Corporation, responsible for R&D, engineering, operations, and businesses in the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing systems, computer vision and artificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtual and merged reality devices.