Nelson Yuan-Sheng Kiang (July 6, 1929 – March 19, 2023) (Chinese: 江淵聲) was the founder and former director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology (established in 1958) at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and professor emeritus of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard Medical School and also professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He arrived at MIT in 1955 and in 1958, Dr. Kiang partnered with Amelia Peabody to establish the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory (EPL) at Massachusetts Eye and Ear.
Dr. Kiang served as laboratory director until 1996 and would oversee its rapid growth into the largest research group in the world dedicated to the study of hearing and deafness.
[8] Kiang has been credited as the first to demonstrate the auditory brainstem response, and to propose using such electrical signals from the brain to diagnose hearing disorders.
In the 1990s, Kiang suggested investigating the response of the vestibular part of the inner ear to very low frequencies in relation to wind turbine syndrome.