Summer Rankin

Biography

My current role is as a senior data scientist with Booz Allen Hamilton. I support US government agencies (FDA, CDC, DoD, etc) and work with a variety of data types including electronic health records.

I investigated the neural processes underlying pitch, rhythm and tonality, and the role of 1/f (fractal) structure in these processes while I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Otolaryngology Department at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Charles Limb is the PI for the Sound and Music Perception Laboratory. We used fmri and behavioral methods to study normal hearing participants and cochlear implant users.

I received my PhD (2010) in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences from Florida Atlantic University. There, I was the system administrator for Edward Large's Music Dynamics Laboratory where I studied and published on the temporal fractal characteristics (tempo, beat, meter) of music perception and production.