Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
Xiaoqin Wang received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sichuan University, China, in 1984, M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1986, and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1991. He conducted postdoctoral research in somatosensory and auditory neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1991 to 1995.
Dr. Wang has been a faculty member in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1995, and a tenured full professor since 2005. In 1999, he was honored with the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Dr. Wang’s research focuses on auditory neuroscience and neural engineering, with particular emphasis on understanding the structure and function of the auditory cortex and the neural basis of vocal communication. He is widely recognized for pioneering the use of the marmoset monkey as a model for behavioral and neurophysiological studies of auditory and vocal functions.
His lab has developed the awake and behaving marmoset model and integrated it with innovative computational techniques to investigate fundamental neural coding mechanisms in the auditory cortex, including temporal-to-rate transformations, pitch perception, and harmonicity representations. Using wireless neural recording methods, Dr. Wang’s team has discovered vocal feedback processing mechanisms in the marmoset auditory cortex and uncovered the role of the non-human primate frontal cortex in voluntary vocal control.
In addition to his scientific contributions, Dr. Wang has trained many young scientists who are now making significant contributions in the field. He has also played a pivotal role in establishing the marmoset model as a key tool for the broader neuroscience community.
This award recognizes a body of work representing a significant advance in hearing, vestibular or related science, and established in the awardee’s own lab. The topic should be related to the scientific interests of the Association as represented at the annual ARO meeting. As the award is for a body of work, the award may be shared among investigators who have worked as a team. The selection will be made in November 2024, before the 2025 Midwinter meeting
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: ARO PIONEER AWARD IN BASIC SCIENCE
The Association for Research in Otolaryngology will start accepting nominations for the 2026 ARO Pioneer Award in Basic Science in July 2025.
ABOUT THE ARO PIONEER AWARD IN BASIC SCIENCE
This award recognizes a body of work representing a significant advance in hearing, vestibular, or related science and established in the awardee’s own lab. The topic should be related to the scientific interests of the Association as represented at the annual ARO meeting. As the award is for a body of work, the award may be shared among investigators who have worked as a team. The awardee(s) will be asked to give a scientific talk at the 2025 meeting (one per award).
REMINDER: Nominees, nominators and letter-writers are not required to be ARO members. Self-nominations are not accepted.
Please read carefully before submitting.
NOMINATION Requirements:
Nominations should include the following:
Nominations are meticulously selected by the ARO Award Committee and then submitted to the ARO Council for approval. A nominee’s package will be considered for up to 3 years in sequence; the package can be updated for the second and third years. Nominations submitted in previous years without meeting the new standards should be resubmitted, ensuring a fair and comprehensive evaluation
