Anu Sharma, Ph.D. is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Speech Language and Hearing Science and Fellow in the Institute for Cognitive Science and Center for Neuroscience at University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Her research focuses on examining brain and behavioral outcomes in children and adults with hearing loss who are fitted with hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. Her research is funded by the United States National Institutes of Health. She has given over 200 invited and keynote addresses on her research, including the Carhart Memorial Lecture at the American Auditory Society, the Marion Downs lecture twice at the American Academy of Audiology, and the Ted Evans Lecture at the British Academy of Audiology.