UW AI researcher wins top Marconi award and aims to put ‘superhuman hearing’ in billions of devices

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. (Photo courtesy of Malek Itani) University of Washington Ph.D. student Malek Itani , who co-founded the AI-powered sound enhancement startup Hearvana , has been awarded the prestigious Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for his groundbreaking work in “superhuman” hearing technology.