As a graduate student working with Dr. Philip Jen at the University of Missouri-Columbia (1995-1999), I studied functions of neural inhibition in auditory information processing in the bat auditory midbrain using extracellular single-cell recording techniques and pharmacological agents affecting transmitter receptors that mediate the inhibition. As a postdoctoral fellow under the guidance of Dr. Edwin Rubel at the University of Washington (1999-2005), I initiated studies using patch clamp to determine activity- and development-dependent regulation of ion channels and neurotransmission in auditory brainstem neurons. As an independent PI at NEOMED (2005-present), my research focuses on studying neuromodulatory functions in hearing physiology, under normal hearing and hearing loss conditions, as well as in an animal model of fragile X syndrome.