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Vitae
    EDUCATION

    · B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, May 1989.

    · M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, August 1991.
    Thesis: Low rate speech representations by vector quantizing transform components.

    · Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, August 1995.
    Dissertation: Robust speaker-independent recognition of a confusable vocabulary.

    EMPLOYMENT

    1991-1995 Research Assistant, Department of  Electrical Engineering, Arizona
    State University, AZ 

    1995-1996 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Speech and Hearing  Sciences, Arizona State University, AZ 

    1996-1999  Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Science, University of 
    Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR.

    1999-2003 Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.

    2004-present  Professor (with tenure), Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.

    AWARDS/HONORS
     

    • Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
    • National Institutes of Health (NIH) Shannon award (1998)
    • Member of NIH Grant Review Panel (AUD Study Section), 2006-2011
    • Intel award for “contributing to the development of the 60172 processor architecture” (1992)
    • The 1996 F.V. Hunt Research Fellowship by Acoustical  Society of America
    • Member of honorary societies: Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Pi Sigma, New York Academy of Sciences
    • Cited  in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (1998)


    RESEARCH

    Research Interests
    Signal processing, adaptive signal processing algorithms, spectrum estimation, implementation of signal processing algorithms on fixed-point DSP processors, speech enhancement, speech perception, and signal processing for cochlear implants.

    Grants Awarded - Sponsored Research

    Active Grants

    Past Grants:

    Principal Investigator, “Open-source research interface for cochlear implants,“ National Institutes of Health, $1.3M, April 2006-April 2009.

    Principal Investigator, “Optimizing speech coding strategies for noise and music,” National Institutes of Health, April 2005-April 2010, $1.5M.

    Co-Investigator (PI: A. Spanias, Arizona State  University). “Collaborative Research: CCLI-EMD; Development of On-line Laboratories for Networks, Probability Theory, Signals and Systems, and Multimedia computing,” National Science Foundation, 2005-2008, $450,000

    Principal Investigator, “Signal Processing Techniques for Cochlear Prosthesis,” National Institutes of Health,  Grant No. 1 R01 DC03421, May 1999-May 2004, $700,000.

    Principal Investigator, “Signal Processing Techniques for Cochlear Prosthesis,” National Institutes of Health,  Grant No. R55 DC03421, October 1998-October 2000, $100,000, Shannon Award.

    Co-PI, “Cochlear implants – Auditory function and speech perception,” National Institutes of Health, Grant No. 5 R01 DC00654-07, April 1999-April 2004, $993,000.

    Co-Investigator, “Performance outcome measures for hearing technology,” Texas Instruments, Inc., June 2000-June 2001, $165,000

    Principal Investigator, “Development of a laboratory cochlear implant processor,” Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, July 1997-July 1998, $28,000.

    Co-PI, “A coupled oscillator approach to control autonomous robots”, US Army  Research Office/DEPSCoR, November 1997- November 2000, $278,000.

    Principal Investigator, “Evaluation of two cochlear implant processors,” Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, UALR, July 1997-July 1998, $5,000.
     

    PUBLICATIONS

    PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
     

  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2008-

  • Associate Editor of International Journal of Audiology, 2008-

  • Associated Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2006-2008

  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 1999-2001

  • Member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, 2007-