We gratefully acknowledge the support of National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

• P. Loizou, Principal Investigator," User customization and optimization of cochlear implants," Grant No. R01  DC010494,  $2.5M, Sept. 2010-Sept 2015 (in collaboration with Arizona State University and Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison).

• Co-Investigator (PI: Kostas Kokkinakis), "Blind processing for better speech recognition with cochlear implant devices,", Grant No. R03 DC008882, 6/01/2009 - 6/01/2012, National Institutes of Health, $225,000. [see UTD News Release]

Past support:

• P. Loizou, Principal Investigator, "Optimizing speech coding strategies for noise and music," Grant No. R01 DC07527, Apr 2005 - Apr 2010, National Institutes of Health., $1.5M.

• P. Loizou, Principal Investigator, “Open-source research interface for cochlear implants,“ National Institutes of Health, $1.3M, April 2006-April 2009.

• Co-Investigator (PI: Yi Hu), "Development of noise reduction algorithms for cochlear implants", Grant No. R03 DC008887, 12/03/2007 - 11/30/2010, National Institutes of Health, $225,000.