Ariel is currently a NIH K99 MOSAIC Fellow and a postdoctoral fellow at NYU Langone Medical Center. His projects lie at the intersection between neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and neuroprosthetics; specifically he studies the neuroscience relating to cochlear implant use. Cochlear implants are clinical auditory prosthetics that restore hearing to folks with severe to profound hearing loss and cannot benefit from conventional sound amplification. These devices restore substantial levels of speech perception and have been implanted in over one million users world-wide, but reaching these outcomes may take weeks to months, and in rare cases years. Ariel aims to understand the neural mechanisms that facilitate the adaptation to the new sensory maps provided by cochlear implant, employing complimentary experiments and approaches across humans (e.g., psychophysics and biomarkers) and rodents with cochlear implants (e.g., behavioral tracking and high throughput neural recordings).