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Research and Development Group; and as Vice President of Engineering for Harman OEM Group. In 1982, he formed the consulting firm, Psychotechnology, Inc., which provides expertise in loudspeaker and electronic design; computer-aided measurement; acoustic and psychoacoustic research.
Dr. Buck has worked on active noise and vibration control, linear actuators, loudspeaker test instrumen- tation, subjective listening testing, DSP for loudspeaker optimization and PC sound. He has published and present- ed numerous papers and has several patents for electronic and electro acoustic devices. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Hollywood Sapphire Group, IEEE, the National Rifle Association and the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Nicholas Giordano
Ruth and Joel Spira Award present- ed to Nicholas Giordano
Nicholas J. Giordano was awarded the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teach- ing by the Department of Physics at Purdue University. This is an award designed to recognize outstanding teaching of physics at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The undergrad- uate selection committee is organized by the departmental chapter of the Society of Physics Students.
Nicholas Giordano is Hubert James Distinguished Professor of Physics at Purdue University. He received a B.S. from Purdue University in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977. He joined the Purdue faculty in 1979. His research interests include the physics of nano- structures and mesoscopic systems, musical acoustics and the physics of the
piano, computational neuroscience, computational physics and guitar acoustics. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Shrikanth S. Narayanan named Viterbi Professor in Engineering
Shrikanth S. Narayanan has been named the first holder of the Viterbi Professorship in Engineering by the University of Southern California. “The appointment recognizes Shri’s exceptional distinction and will be for a term of five years,” said Dean Yannis Yortsos, in making the announcement.
Shrikanth Narayanan received his M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from UCLA in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively. From 1995-2000 he was with AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park (former- ly AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill)—first as a Senior Member and later as a Principal member of its Technical Staff. Currently, he is a Professor at the Signal and Image Processing Institute of USC's Electrical Engineering depart- ment and holds joint appointments in Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology. He is also a research area director of the Integrated Media Systems Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center, at USC.
His research interests are in signals and systems modeling with applica- tions to speech, language, multimodal and biomedical problems. At Narayanan's SAIL (Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory) researchers are developing the technol- ogy for language and literacy assess- ment in young children, especially those from bilingual backgrounds. The
hope is to empower teachers with new tools and provide consistent and effi- cient assessment methods to target indi- viduals. Narayanan wants to make robot voices more natural and human sound- ing, even friendly. He has another com- puter system that synthesizes sound clearly recognizable as laughter so that a machine will sound happy rather than macabre to human listeners.
Dr. Narayanan is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Senior member of IEEE and member of Tau- Beta-Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and Eta-Kappa- Nu. He is the Editor for the Computer, Speech and Language Journal, served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Speech and Audio Processing (2000-04) and is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He serves on the Speech Processing and Multimedia Signal Processing technical committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the Speech Communication committee of the Acoustical Society of America. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, USC Engineering Junior Research Award, USC Electrical Engineering Northrop-Grumman Research award, a Mellon award for mentoring excellence and a faculty fellowship from the USC Center for Interdisciplinary research. He is a co-recipient of a 2005 Best Paper award from the IEEE Signal Processing society. He has published over 230 papers and has 5 granted and 9 pending U.S. patents.
Theodore Glattke
Theodore Glattke awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award
The American Academy of Audiology has awarded its 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award to Theodore J. Glattke. Dr. Glattke was
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