Mr Dakota Bysouth-Young is a clinical audiologist working at Hearing Implants Australia. His primary area of expertise is cochlear implants and other implantable devices. His role involves the training and supervision of other audiologists, clinical guidance for patients seeking an implantable device, intraoperative testing, as well as outcome measurement and validation of patients who have received an implantable device. His recent research has included the investigation of new speech coding strategies to improve pitch and melody perception in cochlear implant users.