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Kelly Fitz received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999. He was the principal developer of the sound analysis and syn- thesis software Lemur and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He was co-developer of the Vanilla Sound Server, an appli- cation providing real-time
sound synthesis for virtual environments. Dr. Fitz is cur- rently Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University, and the principal developer of the Loris software for sound model- ing and morphing. His research interests include speech and audio processing, digital sound synthesis, and comput- er music composition.
Sean A. Fulop received a B.Sc. in Physics (1991) from the University of Calgary and, after two M.A. degrees in Linguistics, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics (1999) from the University of California, Los Angeles. He then held temporary faculty positions in Linguistics at San José State University and the University of Chicago before joining the fac- ulty at California State
University, Fresno, as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in 2005. His publication areas range widely in linguistics and speech and cover speech processing, phonetics, mathematical linguistic theory, and computational linguistics. His chief research programs in acoustics involve the investigation of speech sounds, and the development, evaluation, and dissem- ination of improved signal processing tools for phonetics and speech acoustics research. He currently reviews speech-related patents for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and has been a member of the Society since 1987.
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