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Sean A. Fulop received a B.Sc. in Physics (1991) from the University of Calgary and, after M.A. degrees in Linguistics at both Calgary and UCLA, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics (1999) from UCLA. He then held tem- porary faculty positions in Linguistics at San José State University and the University of Chicago
before joining the faculty at California State University, Fresno in 2005, where he is now Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of Cognitive Science. His publica- tion areas range over the fields of speech processing, phonet- ics, mathematical linguistic theory, and computational lin- guistics. His chief research programs in acoustics involve the investigation of speech sounds, and the development and dis- semination of improved signal processing tools for phonetics and speech acoustics research. He is currently an Associate Editor of patent reviews for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and has been a member of the Acoustical Society of America since 1987.
Kelly Fitz is a digital sig- nal processing engineer specializing in the design and implementation of audio analysis, process- ing, and synthesis algo- rithms. Kelly has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He worked in the audio development group at the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications, developing sound synthesis software for virtual reality applications, and in the Electrical Engineering department at Washington State University, where he taught signal processing and computer science, and developed algorithms for sound modeling and sound morphing. As Senior Digital Signal Processing Research Engineer at Starkey Laboratories, he conducts research combining hearing science, psychoacoustics, and signal processing to explore the perceptual consequences of hearing loss and hearing aids.
Douglas O’Shaughnessy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1976) has been a pro- fessor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), University of Quebec and adjunct professor at McGill University since 1977. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (1992) and of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE, 2006). He served 12 years as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. He was recently elected as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Speech and Language Technical Committee, and as member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Board, where he serves as Conference Coordinator for the series of Interspeech Conferences. He has present- ed tutorials on speech recognition at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)-96, ICASSP-2001 International Conference on Communications (ICC)-2003, and at ICASSP-09. He is the author of the textbook Speech Communications: Human and Machine (1986 Addison-Wesley; revised 2000, IEEE Press). In 2003, with Li Deng, he co-authored the book Speech Processing: A Dynamic and Optimization- Oriented Approach (Marcel Dekker). He was the general Chair of ICASSP-2004.
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