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Larry Humes is a Distinguished Professor of Hearing Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.^[1]

Dr. Humes completed his undergraduate work in 1975 at Purdue University, which was followed by a master's degree from Central Michigan University in 1976, and, finally, a doctorate from Northwestern University in 1979.^[2][1]

After an eight-year tenure as a faculty member at Vanderbilt University, he came to Indiana University in 1996.^[1] Dr. Humes has publishing over 160 papers^[3] and giving over 230 presentations^[4] on his research worldwide.^[5] Much of his research in recent years has focused on evaluating treatment for speech-perception deficits, age-related changes to auditory perception and outcome measures for hearing aids.^[2][1] He serves as a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Acoustical Society of America. He has received the Alfred E. Kawana Award for Lifetime Achievement from the ASHA^[6] and the James Jerger Career Award and Presidential Award from the American Academy of Audiology.^[1] Throughput his career, Dr. Humes has served on a variety of editorial board for peer reviewed journals^[1] including the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, Australian Journal of Audiology, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, and American Journal of Audiology.^[7]