[5] She worked at Bell Communications Research, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Sensimetrics[6] before joining the faculty at BU.
She is an auditory neuroscientist best known for her work on attention and the cocktail party problem, sound localization, and the effects of room acoustics and reverberation on hearing.
[7] Shinn-Cunningham's lab uses a range of techniques to understand neural coding and perception, including psychoacoustics, cortical electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, pupillometry, comparative neuroscience, and computational modeling.
Shinn-Cunningham is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering[12][13] and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
[21] Shinn-Cunningham is married to Robert Kevin Cunningham, an engineer-scientist who has worked in machine learning, computational vision, and cybersecurity.