CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Ravi Prakash Ramachandran

DATE OF BIRTH: July 12th, 1963.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Bangalore, India

COUNTRIES OF CITIZENSHIP: United States of America and Canada

MARITAL STATUS: Married

CHILDREN: One son

DEGREES OBTAINED:

1. Bachelor of Engineering (with great distinction), Concordia University, 1984.

2. Master of Engineering (Dean’s honor list), McGill University, 1986.

3. Ph.D., McGill University, 1990.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1. Teaching Assistant during period of graduate education.

2. Visiting Postgraduate Researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara,January–June 1988.

3. Postdoctoral Fellow, Speech Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, MurrayHill, New Jersey, October 1990–December 1992.

4. Research Assistant Professor, Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity(CAIP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, January 1993–August 1997.

5. Senior Speech Scientist, T-Netix/SpeakEZ Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, May 1996–August 1997.

6. Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RutgersUniversity, Piscataway, New Jersey, September 1996–August 1997.

7. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RowanUniversity, Glassboro, New Jersey, September 1997–August 2006.

8. Technical Consultant, T-Netix/SpeakEZ Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, September1997–December 1997.

9. Technical Consultant, Avenir Inc., Metuchen, New Jersey, February 2000–February2001.

10. Technical Consultant, Motorola, Arlington Heights, Illinois, March 2005–April 2005.

11. Technical Consultant, Focalcool, Glassboro, New Jersey, July 2010–July 2011.

12. Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University,Glassboro, New Jersey, September 2006–present.

THESES TITLES:

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1. Master’s thesis: Pitch Filtering in Adaptive Predictive Coding of Speech.

2. Ph.D. thesis: Bandwidth Efficient Filter Banks for Transmultiplexers.

RESEARCH PAPERS:

REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS:

1. “The Computation of Line Spectral Frequencies Using Chebyshev Polynomials”,IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-34, No. 6, pp.1419–1426, December 1986. (with P. Kabal)

2. “Stability and Performance Analysis of Pitch Filters in Speech Coders”, IEEE Trans.on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-35, No. 7, pp. 937–946, July1987. (with P. Kabal)

3. “Pitch Prediction Filters in Speech Coding”, IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech andSignal Processing, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 467–478, April 1989. (with P. Kabal)

4. “Joint Optimization of Linear Predictors in Speech Coders”, IEEE Trans. on Acous-tics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 642–650, May 1989. (withP. Kabal)

5. “Minimax Design of Factorable Nyquist Filters for Data Transmission Systems”,Signal Processing, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 327–339, November 1989. (with P. Kabal)

6. “Transmultiplexers: Perfect Reconstruction and Compensation of Channel Distor-tion”, Signal Processing, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 261–274, November 1990. (with P.Kabal)

7. “Bandwidth Efficient Transmultiplexers, Part 1: Synthesis”, IEEE Trans. on SignalProcessing, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 70–84, January 1992. (with P. Kabal)

8. “Bandwidth Efficient Transmultiplexers, Part 2: Subband Complements and Perfor-mance Aspects”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 1108–1121,May 1992. (with P. Kabal)

9. “Frequency Domain Adaptive Postfiltering for Enhancement of Noisy Speech”,Speech Communication, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 41–56, March 1993. (with F.-M. Wang,P. Kabal and D. O’Shaughnessy)

10. “Interpolation of the Pitch Predictor Parameters in Analysis-by-Synthesis SpeechCoders”, IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 42–54,January 1994. (with W. B. Kleijn and P. Kroon)

11. “A Unified and Efficient Least-Squares Design of Linear Phase Nonrecursive Filters”,Signal Processing, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 41–53, March 1994. (with S. Sunder)

12. “Least-Squares Design of Higher Order Nonrecursive Differentiators”, IEEE Trans.on Signal Processing, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 956–961, April 1994. (with S. Sunder)

13. “Least-Squares Design of Linear Phase FIR Half-Band Filters”, Journal of the Insti-tution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, Vol. 40, No. 5 and6, pp. 283–286, Sept.-Dec. 1994. (with S. Sunder).

14. “A Comparative Study of Robust Linear Predictive Analysis Methods with Applica-tions to Speaker Identification”, IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol.3, No. 2, pp. 117–125, March 1995. (with M. S. Zilovic and R. J. Mammone)

15. “A Two Codebook Format for Robust Quantization of Line Spectral Frequencies”,IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 157–168, May1995. (with M. M. Sondhi, N. Seshadri and B. S. Atal).

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16. “Design of Two-Dimensional Linear-Phase Nonrecursive Filters Using aLeast-Squares Criterion”, Signal Processing, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 361–367, July 1995.(with S. S. Kidambi)

17. “Design of Nonrecursive Filters Satisfying Arbitrary Magnitude and Phase Speci-fications Using a Least-Squares Approach”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and SystemsII: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 711–716, November1995. (with S. S. Kidambi)

18. “Complex Coefficient Nonrecursive Digital Filter Design Using a Least-Squares Ap-proach”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 710–713, March1996. (with S. S. Kidambi)

19. “Robust Speaker Recognition - A Feature Based Approach”, IEEE Signal ProcessingMagazine, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 58–71, September 1996. (with R. J. Mammone andX. Zhang)

20. “A Fast Algorithm for Finding the Adaptive Component Weighted Cepstrum forSpeaker Recognition”, IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 5, No. 1,pp. 84–86, January 1997. (with M. S. Zilovic and R. J. Mammone)

21. “Speaker Identification Based on the Use of Robust Cepstral Features Obtained fromPole-Zero Transfer Functions”, IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol.6, No. 3, pp. 260–267, May 1998. (with M. S. Zilovic and R. J. Mammone)

22. “Multidisciplinary Design and Communication: A Pedagogical Vision”, InternationalJournal of Engineering Education, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 376–382, 1999. (with J. A.Newell, A. J. Marchese, B. Sukumaran and R. Harvey)

23. “Cochannel Speaker Count Labelling Based on the Use of Cepstral and Pitch Predic-tion Derived Features”, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 499–507, February2001. (with M. A. Lewis)

24. “Integration of Multidisciplinary Design and Technical Communication: An Inex-orable Link”, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 18, No.1, pp.32–38, 2002. (with A. J. Marchese, R. Ordonez, C. Sun, E. Constans, J. L. Schmalzel,H. L. Newell, H. Benavidez and J. Haynes)

25. “Real World Design as a One Semester Undergraduate Project: Example of a Robustand Low Cost Solar Lantern”, IEEE Trans. on Education, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 357–363, November 2002. (with L. Head and G. Canough)

26. “Speaker Recognition - General Classifier Approaches and Data Fusion Methods”,Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35, No. 12, pp. 2801–2821, December 2002. (with K. R.Farrell, Roopashri Ramachandran and R. J. Mammone)

27. “The Competitive Assessment Laboratory: Introducing Engineering Design via Con-sumer Product Benchmarking”, IEEE Trans. on Education, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp.197–205, February 2003. (with A. J. Marchese, R. P. Hesketh, J. L. Schmalzel andH. L. Newell)

28. “Vehicle Reidentification as Method For Deriving Travel Time and Travel TimeDistributions”, Transportation Research Record, No. 1826, 2003. (with C. Sunand G. Arr)

29. “Vehicle Reidentification Using Multidetector Fusion”, IEEE Trans. on IntelligentTransportation Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 155–164, September 2004. (with C. Sun,G. Arr and S. G. Ritchie)

30. “An Alternative Approach for Obtaining 2-D Discrete Filters Having Variable Mag-nitude and Contour Characteristics by Cascading Sections Each Having Unity Degree

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in Each Variable”, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp.1085–1103, October 2004. (with C. S. Gargour and V. Ramachandran)

31. “Field Measured Natural Frequencies of Delaware Memorial Bridge”, TransportationResearch Record, No. 1976, pp. 114–123, 2006. (with R. A. Dusseau, J. R. Jones,C. Sun and G. Arr)

32. “Two-Dimensional Digital Filters With Variable Magnitude CharacteristicsObtained From a 1-D Monotonic Response”, Journal of Computers. Vol. 2, No. 7,pp. 32–39, September 2007. (with V. Ramachandran and C. S. Gargour)

33. “New Z-Domain Continued Fraction Expansions Based On an Infinite Number ofMirror-Image and Anti-Mirror-Image Polynomial Decompositions”, Journal of Cir-cuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 487–498, June 2008. (with V.Ramachandran and C. S. Gargour)

34. “Modeling Biodegradation of Nonylphenol”, Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus,Vol. 8, pp. 395–404, August 2008. (with K. Jahan. R. Ordonez, S. Balzer and M.Stern)

35. “Creating an Agile ECE Learning Environment Through Engineering Clinics”, IEEETransactions on Education, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 455–462, August 2010. (with P.Jansson, J. L. Schmalzel and S. A. Mandayam)

36. “Vertical Integration of System-On-Chip Concepts in the Digital Design Curricu-lum”, IEEE Transactions on Education Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 188–196, May 2011.(with Y. Tang, L. M. Head and L. M. Chatman)

37. “Usable Speech Processing: A Filterless Approach in the Presence of Interference”,IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Special Issue on Speaker and Language Recog-nition, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 8–22, June 2011. (with B. Y. Smolenski)

38. “Cognitive Radio: Primary User Emulation Attacks and Remedies”, Journal of Re-cent Patents on Computer Science, Special Issue on Recent Advances in CognitiveRadio Communications, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2012. (with S. S. Shetty and M. Thanu)

39. “Vertical Integration of Biometrics Across the Curriculum: Case Study of Speaker,Face and Iris Recognition”, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 3,pp 55–69, September 2014. (with K. D. Dahm, R. Nickel, R. Kozick, S. S. Shetty,L. Hong, S. H. Chin, R. Polikar and Y. Tang)

40. “Project and Problem Based Learning for Circuits, Systems, VLSI and Digital SignalProcessing Courses”, Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, Vol. 28,Nos. 2 and 3, pp. 37–44, January 2015. (with K. D. Dahm, L. M. Head and J. L.Schmalzel)

41. “Communication in the Engineering Curriculum: Learning to Write and Writing toLearn, Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 1-8,October 2015. (with K. D. Dahm and S. Farrell)

42. “Blind Signal to Noise Ratio Estimation of Speech Based on Vector Quantizer Clas-sifiers and Decision Level Fusion”, Journal of Signal Processing Systems. Vol. 89,No. 2, pp. 335–345, November 2017. (with R. Ondusko, M. Marbach and L. M.Head)

43. “A Primer on Deep Learning Architectures and Applications in Speech Processing”,Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 3406-3432, August2019. (with T. Ogunfunmi, R. Togneri, Y. Zhao and X. Xia)

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

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1. “The Stability of Pitch Filters in Speech Coding”, 13th Biennial Symposium onCommunications, Kingston, Canada, pp. C.3.4.–C.3.7, June 2–4, 1986. (with P.Kabal)

2. “Joint Solutions for Formant and Pitch Predictors in Speech Processing”, IEEE Int.Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, New York, NY, pp. 315–318,April 11–14, 1988. (with P. Kabal)

3. “Minimax Design of Factorable Nyquist Filters”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics,Speech and Signal Processing, Glasgow, Scotland, pp. 1247–1250, May 23–26, 1989.(with P. Kabal)

4. “Synthesis of Bandwidth Efficient OQAM and VSB Transmultiplexers”, IEEE Int.Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pp.1639–1642, April 3–6, 1990. (with P. Kabal)

5. “Configuration and Performance of Modulated Filter Banks”, IEEE Int. Symp. onCircuits and Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 1809–1812, May 1–3, 1990. (withP. Kabal)

6. “Adaptive Postfiltering for Enhancement of Noisy Speech in the Frequency Domain”,IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Singapore, pp. 312–315, June 11–14,1991. (with P. Kabal, F.-M. Wang, and D. O’Shaughnessy)

7. “Generalized Analysis-by-Synthesis Coding and its Application to Pitch Prediction”,IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, San Francisco, Cali-fornia, pp. I-337–I-340, March 23–26, 1992. (with W. B. Kleijn and P. Kroon)

8. “A Least-Squares Approach for the Design of Nonrecursive Differentiators of Arbi-trary Order”, Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Washington DC, pp. 477–480, August 10–12, 1992. (with S. Sunder)

9. “A Least-Squares Design of Nonrecursive Filters Satisfying Prescribed Magnitudeand Phase Specifications”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Chicago,Illinois, pp. 335–338, May 3–6, 1993. (with S. Sunder)

10. “A Unified Framework for the Least-Squares Design of Linear Phase NonrecursiveFilters”, Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Detroit, Michigan, pp. 480–483,August 16–18, 1993. (with S. Sunder)

11. “The Use of Distant Sample Prediction in Speech Coders”, Midwest Symp. onCircuits and Systems, Detroit, Michigan, pp. 1519–1522, August 16–18, 1993.

12. “An Efficient Least-Squares Approach for the Design of Two-Dimensional LinearPhase Nonrecursive Filters”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, London,England, pp. 2.577–2.580, May 31–June 2, 1994. (with S. Sunder)

13. “Alternative Linear Predictive Analysis Techniques with Applications to SpeakerIdentification”, SPIE Int. Symp. on Optics, Imaging and Instrumentation, SanDiego, California, vol. 2277, pp. 83–94, July 24–29, 1994. (with M. S. Zilovic andR. J. Mammone)

14. “A Combined Vector and Scalar Codebook for Robust Quantization of LPC Pa-rameters”, SPIE Int. Symp. on Optics, Imaging and Instrumentation, San Diego,California, vol. 2277, pp. 167–178, July 24–29, 1994. (with M. M. Sondhi, N.Seshadri and B. S. Atal).

15. “The Use of Robust Cepstral Features Obtained From Pole-Zero Transfer Functionsfor Speaker Identification”, Canadian Conf. on Elec. and Comp. Eng., Montreal,Canada, pp. 1058–1061, September 5–8, 1995. (with M. S. Zilovic and R. J. Mam-mone)

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16. “Sub-word Speaker Verification Using Data Fusion Methods”, IEEE Workshop onNeural Networks for Signal Processing, Amelia Island Plantation, Florida, pp. 531–540, September 24–26, 1997. (with K. R. Farrell, M. Sharma and R. J. Mammone)

17. “Introducing Freshmen to Engineering Through Measurements”, ASEE Middle At-lantic Section Regional Conference, Trenton, New Jersey, April 25, 1998. (with R. P.Hesketh, K. Jahan, A. J. Marchese, R. A. Dusseau, C. S. Slater, T. R. ChandrupatlaS. A. Mandayam and J. L. Schmalzel)

18. “An Analysis of Data Fusion Methods for Speaker Verification”, IEEE Int. Conf. onAcoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, Washington, pp. II-1129–II-1132,May 12–15, 1998. (with K. R. Farrell and R. J. Mammone)

19. “Engineering Measurements in the Freshman Engineering Clinic at Rowan Univer-sity”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Session 1326,June 28–July 1, 1998. (with K. Jahan, R. A. Dusseau, R. P. Hesketh, A. J. Marchese,S. A. Mandayam and J. L. Schmalzel)

20. “On the Use of Cepstral and Pitch Prediction Features for Speaker Count Labellingof Cochannel Speech”, International Conf. on Signal Processing Applications andTechnologies, Toronto, Canada, pp. 1020–1024, September 13–16, 1998. (with M.A. Lewis)

21. “The Use of an Adaptive Gaussian Derivative Filter for Robust Pitch Detection ofNoisy Speech”, IASTED International Conf. on Signal and Image Processing, LasVegas, Nevada, pp. 526–530, October 28–31, 1998. (with M. A. Lewis)

22. “Composing a New Electrical and Computer Engineering Program”, IEEE Frontiersin Education Conference, Tempe, Arizona, Session T4E, November 4–7, 1998. (withJ. L. Schmalzel, S. A. Mandayam, S. Chin and J. Tracey)

23. “Consumer Product Engineering: A Case Study of an Electric Toothbrush andToothpaste”, ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Regional Conference, Washington, DC,pp. 7–11, November 7, 1998. (with C. S. Slater and J. L. Schmalzel)

24. “Teaching Quality: An Integrated Total Quality Management Approach to TechnicalCommunication and Engineering Design”, ASEE Middle Atlantic Section RegionalConference, West Long Branch, New Jersey, pp. 30–34, April 17, 1999. (with R.Harvey, F. Johnson, A. J. Marchese, J. Mariappan, B. Sukumaran and J. A. Newell)

25. “Computer Experiments on Analog and Discrete System Stability”, ASEE MiddleAtlantic Section Regional Conference, West Long Branch, New Jersey, pp. 72–74,April 17, 1999. (with J. Childs)

26. “Restoration of Three Dimensional Microscopic Images Using the Row Action Pro-jection Method”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Orlando, Florida, pp.IV-33–IV-36, May 30–June 2, 1999. (with V. K. Gopalakrishnan, J. Wilder and R.J. Mammone)

27. “An Invariance Transformation Technique for Interpreting Images Obtained FromUnknown Operational Conditions”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems,Orlando, Florida, pp. IV-167–IV-170, May 30–June 2, 1999. (with S. A. Mandayam)

28. “The Sophomore Engineering Clinic: An Introduction to the Design Process Througha Series of Open Ended Projects”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Char-lotte, North Carolina, Session 2225, June 20–23, 1999. (with A. J. Marchese, J. A.Newell, B. Sukumaran, J. L. Schmalzel and J. Mariappan)

29. “Engineering Principles of an Electric Toothbrush”, ASEE Annual Conference andExhibition, Charlotte, North Carolina, Session 2253, June 20–23, 1999. (with J. L.Schmalzel and S. A. Mandayam)

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30. “Engineering Building Structures and Electric Circuit Equivalence”, IEEE Frontiersin Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Session 13D2, November 11–13,1999. (with V. Ramachandran)

31. “Fast Pole Filtering for Speaker Recognition”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits andSystems, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. V-49–V-52, May 28–31, 2000. (with K. R. Farrell)

32. “The NCIIA Venture Capital Fund at Rowan University”, accepted in ASEE AnnualConference and Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, Session 1454, June 18–21, 2000.(with A. J. Marchese, J. L. Schmalzel, J. C. Chen, T. R. Chandrupatla, K. D.Dahm, S. A. Mandayam and P. von Lockette)

33. “A Multidisciplinary Control Systems Laboratory”, ASEE Annual Conference andExhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, Session 1526, June 18–21, 2000. (with S. Farrell andJ. Mariappan)

34. “A Pedagogical Concept of Integrating Multidisciplinary Design and Technical Com-munication”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, Session2325, June 18–21, 2000. (with A. J. Marchese, J. A. Newell, R. Ordonez, J. L.Schmalzel, B. Sukumaran, H. Benavidez and J. Haynes)

35. “The Use of Kirchoff’s Current Law (KCL) and Cut-Set Equations in the Analysis ofBridges and Trusses”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri,Session 2532, June 18–21, 2000. (with V. Ramachandran)

36. “Design of a Robust and Low Cost Solar Lantern as a One Semester Project”, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, Session 2793, June 18–21,2000. (with L. Head and G. Canough)

37. “Improving the Engineering andWriting Interface: An Assessment of a Team-TaughtIntegrated Course”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri,Session 2793, June 18–21, 2000. (with R. K. Harvey, F. S. Johnson, H. Newell, K.D. Dahm, A. J. Marchese, J. L. Schmalzel, C. C. Sun and P. von Lockette)

38. “Variable Magnitude Characteristics of 1-D IIR Discrete Filters by a GeneralizedBilinear Transformation”, Session FAP-2, Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems,East Lansing, Michigan, August 8-11, 2000. (with C. S. Gargour, V. Ramachandranand F. Awad)

39. “Generation of a Class of Two-Dimensional (2-D) Transfer Functions Yielding Vari-able Magnitude and Contour Characteristics”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits andSystems, Sydney, Australia, pp. II-797–II-800, May 6-9, 2001. (with C. S. Gargourand V. Ramachandran)

40. “Some Properties of the Z-Domain Continued Fraction Expansions of 1-D DiscreteReactance Functions”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Sydney, Australia,pp. II-841–II-844, May 6-9, 2001. (with V. Ramachandran and C. S. Gargour)

41. “Multidisciplinary Control Experiments Based on the Proportional Integral Deriva-tive (PID) Concept”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Albuquerque, NewMexico, Session 1526, June 24–27, 2001. (with R. Ordonez, S. Farrell, Z. O. Gephardtand H. Zhang)

42. “Modeling Biodegradation Kinetics Using MATLAB”, ASEE Annual Conferenceand Exhibition, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Session 2451, June 24–27, 2001. (withK. Jahan and R. Ordonez)

43. “Tellegen’s Theorem Applied to Mechanical, Fluid and Thermal Systems”, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exhibition, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Session 2793, June24–27, 2001. (with V. Ramachandran)

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44. “Nonlinear Parameter Estimation of Nonylphenol Biodegradation”, IEEE Int. Conf.on Control Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 919–924, September 5–7, 2001.(with V. Shah, R. Ordonez and K. Jahan)

45. “Assessment Strategies: Feedback is Too Late”, IEEE Frontiers in Education Con-ference, Session T4A, Reno, Nevada, October 10–13, 2001. (with S. A. Mandayam,J. L. Schmalzel, R. Krchnavek, L. M. Head, R. Ordonez, P. Jansson and R. Polikar)

46. “Automatic Compact Disc Transfer for Quality Assurance Testing”, IEEE Frontiersin Education Conference, Session F1G, Reno, Nevada, October 10–13, 2001. (withJ. C. Chen, L. M. Head, J. L. Schmalzel and Hampton C. Gabler)

47. “Composing a New ECE Program: The First Five Years”, IEEE Frontiers in Ed-ucation Conference, Session F3B, Reno, Nevada, October 10–13, 2001. (with J. L.Schmalzel, S. A. Mandayam, R. Krchnavek, L. M. Head, R. Ordonez, R. Polikar, P.Jansson and J. H. Tracey)

48. “Design of Mechanical Systems Having Maximally Flat Response at Low Frequen-cies”, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Design in Engineering, SessionTP-2, Montreal, Canada, November 21–22, 2001. (with V. Ramachandran and C.S. Gargour)

49. “Generation of Variable 2-D Magnitude and Contour Characteristics by the Appli-cation of Generalized Bilinear Transformations to Filters Obtained by the Additionor Subtraction of Two Analog Allpass Filters”, Canadian Conference on Electricaland Computer Engineering, Winnipeg, Canada, pp. 1036–1041, May 12–15, 2002.(with C. S. Gargour and V. Ramachandran)

50. “A Pattern Recognition and Feature Fusion Formulation for Vehicle Reidentificationin Intelligent Transportation Systems”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech andSignal Processing, Orlando, Florida, pp. IV-3840–IV-3843, May 13–17, 2002. (withG. Arr, C. Sun, and S. G. Ritchie)

51. “Robust Pitch Estimation Using an Event Based Adaptive Gaussian Derivative Fil-ter”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, pp. II-843–II-846, May 26–29, 2002. (with A. Shah and M. A. Lewis)

52. “An Integrated Communications, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Very LargeScale Integration (VLSI) Laboratory”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition,Montreal, Canada, Session 1526, June 16–19, 2002. (with L. M. Head, S. A. Man-dayam, J. L. Schmalzel and S. H. Chin)

53. “Continuous Development of a New ECE Program”, ASEE Annual Conferenceand Exhibition, Montreal, Canada, Session 2532, June 16–19, 2002. (with J. L.Schmalzel, S. A. Mandayam, R. R. Krchnavek, L. M. Head, R. Polikar, P. Janssonand R. Ordonez)

54. “Isolated Vowel Recognition Using Linear Predictive Features and Neural NetworkClassifier Fusion”, Fifth International Conference on Information Fusion, Annapolis,Maryland, pp. 1565–1572, July 7–11, 2002. (with J. Byorick and R. Polikar)

55. “An Investigation in the Use of Vehicle Reidentification for Deriving Travel Time andTravel Time Distributions”, 82nd Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting,Washington, DC, January 12–16, 2003. (with C. Sun and G. Arr)

56. “Analog Very Large Scale Integration Implementation of Dendrite Segment WithVoltage Dependent Spiking Behavior”, 29th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Con-ference, Session 1.6.0, Newark, New Jersey, March 22–23, 2003.(with K. K. O’Hanlon, R. B. Grove and L. M. Head)

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57. “Modification of Filter Responses by the Generalized Bilinear Transformations andthe Inverse Bilinear Transformations”, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical andComputer Engineering, Montreal, Canada, May 4–7, 2003. (with V. Ramachandranand C. S. Gargour)

58. “System Observability and Nonlinear Parameter Identification of NonylphenolBiodegradation Kinetics”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Bangkok,Thailand, pp. III-24–III-27, May 25–28, 2003. (with V. Shah, A. Chaubal, R.Ordonez and K. Jahan)

59. “VLSI Architecture for the Efficient Computation of Line Spectral Frequencies”,IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. III-718–III-721,May 25–28, 2003. (with D. L. Reynolds and L. M. Head)

60. “A Study of the Effects of a Double 1-D Bilinear Transformation on the FrequencyResponses of Some Basic Filters”, Fourth International Conference on IndustrialAutomation, Montreal, Canada, Session 14, June 9-11, 2003. (with C. S. Gargourand V. Ramachandran)

61. “Teaching Engineering Economics Using a Web-Based Interactive Simulation”,ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee, Session 1526, June22–25, 2003. (with K. D. Dahm, S. Broderick and C. Panchesine)

62. “Laboratory Experiments Unifying Concepts in the Communications, Digital SignalProcessing (DSP) and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Courses”, ASEE AnnualConference and Exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee, Session 1526, June 22–25, 2003.(with L. M. Head, S. A. Mandayam, J. L. Schmalzel and S. H. Chin)

63. “ASIC Implementation of Efficient Line Spectral Frequency Computation for SpeechCoding Applications”, Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Egypt, De-cember 27–30, 2003. (with D. L. Reynolds and L. M. Head)

64. “Generation of Analog and Digital Transfer Functions Having A Monotonic Mag-nitude Response”, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engi-neering, Niagra Falls, Canada, May 2–5, 2004. (with V. Ramachandran and C. S.Gargour)

65. “Fusion of Wavelet Transform and Color Information Features for Automatic Ve-hicle Reidentification in Intelligent Transportation Systems”, IEEE Int. Conf. onAcoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, pp, V-285–V-288, May17–21, 2004. (with G. Arr and C. Sun)

66. “Fast Adaptive Component Weighted Cepstrum Pole Filtering for Speaker Iden-tification”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Vancouver, Canada, pp.V-612–V-615, May 23–26, 2004. (with A. L. Swanson and S. H. Chin)

67. “Teaching Engineering Economy Principles Using a Web-Based Interactive Simula-tion”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, Session 1139,June 20–23, 2004. (with K. D. Dahm and D. L. Silverstein)

68. “Biomedical Engineering For All Electrical Engineers: A Model For Integrating NovelContent Into Existing Curriculum”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, SaltLake City, Utah, Session 1526, June 20–23, 2004. (with R. Polikar, L. M. Head andM. Tahamont)

69. “Web-Based Interactive Software for Engineering Economy Courses”, ASEE AnnualConference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, Session 1526, June 20–23, 2004.(with K. D. Dahm and D. L. Silverstein)

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70. “Some Properties of Generalized 2-D Mirror Image and Anti Mirror Image Polyno-mials”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, pp. 2321–2324,May 23–26, 2005. (with V. Ramachandran and C. S. Gargour)

71. “Integrating BME Into ECE Curriculum: An Alternate Approach For Meeting theNation’s Need for Qualified BME Professionals”, ASEE Annual Conference and Ex-hibition, Portland, Oregon, Session 1526, June 12–15, 2005. (with R. Polikar, L. M.Head and M. Tahamont)

72. “A Web-Based Interactive Simulation For Engineering Economics Courses”, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exhibition, Portland, Oregon, Session 1526, June 12–15,2005. (with K. D. Dahm)

73. “A Comparative Study of Java Obfuscators”, IASTED International Conference onSoftware Engineering and Applications, Phoenix, Arizona, pp. 82–86, November14–16, 2005. (with J. MacBride, C. Mascioli, S. Marks, G. Tang and L. M. Head)

74. “Field Measured Natural Frequencies of Delaware Memorial Bridge”, 85th AnnualTransportation Research Board Meeting, Washington, DC, January 22–26, 2006.(with R. A. Dusseau, J. R. Jones, C. Sun and G. Arr)

75. “Nonylphenol Biodegradation Kinetics Estimation Using Neural Networks”, IEEEInt. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Kos, Greece, pp. 4224–4227, May 21–24, 2006.(with R. Shaik and R. Ordonez)

76. “A Vector Quantizer Classifier for Blind Signal to Noise Ratio Estimation of SpeechSignals”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Kos, Greece, pp. 5760–5763,May 21–24, 2006. (with M. Marbach, R. Ondusko, L. M. Head and M. Huggins)

77. “The Role of the Engineering Clinic in Promoting an Agile ECE Learning Envi-ronment”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, June 18–21,2006. (with J. L. Schmalzel, S. A. Mandayam, R. R. Krchnavek, L. M. Head, R.Polikar, P. Jansson, G. Tang and R. Ordonez)

78. “Laboratory Integration of Emerging Topics Into Existing Curriculum”, IEEE Fron-tiers in Education Conference, Session M1D, San Diego, California, October 28–31,2006. (with R. Polikar, L. M. Head and M. Tahamont)

79. “A Qualitative Analysis of Java Obfuscation”, IASTED Int. Conf. On SoftwareEngineering and Applications, Dallas, Texas, pp. 166–171, November 13–15, 2006.(with M. Karnick, J. MacBride, S. McGinnis and G. Tang)

80. “On the Properties and Design of Stable IIR Transfer Functions Generated UsingFibonnaci Numbers”, IEEE Asia Pacific Conf. On Circuits and Systems, Singapore,pp. 1230–1233, December 4–7, 2006. (with C. S. Gargour and V. Ramachandran)

81. “Blind Determination of the Signal to Noise Ratio of Speech Signals Based on Es-timation Combination of Multiple Features”, IEEE Asia Pacific Conf. on Circuitsand Systems, Singapore, pp. 1897–1900, December 4–7, 2006. (with R. Ondusko,M. Marbach, A. McClellan, L. M. Head, M. Huggins and B. Y. Smolenski)

82. “Modeling Biodegradation of Nonylphenol”, 37th Mid-Atlantic Industrial and Haz-ardous Waste Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 21–23, 2007. (with K. Jahan, R.Ordonez, S. Perlis and M. Stern)

83. “A Family of Lowpass Filters Having Pseudo-Monotonic Magnitude Response Ap-proximating Linear Phase”, Fifth International Conference on Industrial Automa-tion, Montreal, Canada, Session 12, June 11–13, 2007. (with V. Ramachandran andC. S. Gargour)

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84. “Introducing Multidisciplinary Novel Content Through Laboratory Exercises on RealWorld Applications”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii,June 24–27, 2007. (with R. Polikar, L. M. Head and M. Tahamont)

85. “Generation of Transfer Functions Yielding Monotonic Frequency Responses By theIntegration of Butterworth Polynomials”, Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Sys-tems, Montreal, Canada, pp. 1181–1184, August 5–8, 2007. (with V. Ramachandranand C. S. Gargour)

86. “ASIC Design for the Efficient Computation of Line Spectral Frequencies UsingChebyshev Polynomial Series”, Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Mon-treal, Canada, pp. 1465–1468, August 5–8, 2007. (with D. L. Reynolds and L. M.Head)

87. “Neural Network Classifiers and Principal Component Analysis for Blind Signal toNoise Ratio of Speech Signals”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Taipei,Taiwan, pp. 97–100, May 24–27, 2009. (with M. Marbach, R. Ondusko and L. M.Head)

88. “Biometric Speaker Recognition For Enhancing Security in Cognitive Radio Net-works”, Virginia Tech Annual Symposium on Wireless Communication, June 3–5,2009. (with J. Ethridge, M. Medh,R. Mudrowsky, R. Conti and S. S.Shetty)

89. “Integrating Systems-on-Chip in an Undergraduate ECE Curriculum”, ASEE An-nual Conference and Exhibition, Session 1526, Austin, Texas, June 14–17, 2009.(with Y. Tang, L. M. Head and L. Chatman)

90. “Vertical Integration of System-on-Chip Concepts in the Digital Design Curriculum”,International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, San Francisco, Cal-ifornia, July 25–27, 2009. (with Y. Tang, L. M. Head and L. Chatman)

91. “Blind Channel Estimation Based Robust Physical Layer Key Generation in MIMONetworks”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France, May 30–June2, 2010. (with S. S. Shetty)

92. “System on Chip as a Theme for Achieving Seamless Transition from a Two Year Col-lege to a Four Year University”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Louisville,Kentucky, June 20–23, 2010. (with Y. Tang, L. M. Head and L. Chatman)

93. “Vertical Integration of System-on-Chip and Green Engineering Across the Under-graduate Curriculum”, IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Arlington, Virginia,Session T3J, October 27–30, 2010. (with P. Jansson, Y. Tang, L. M. Head and L.Chatman)

94. “Fusion Methods for Boosting Performance of Speaker Identification Systems”, IEEEAsia Pacific Conf. on Circuits and Systems, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, December 6–9,2010. (with G. Ditzler, J. Ethridge and R. Polikar)

95. “The Affine Transform and Feature Fusion for Robust Speaker Identification in thePresence of Speech Coding Distortion”, IEEE Asia Pacific Conf. on Circuits andSystems, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, December 6–9, 2010. (with R. W. Mudrowskyand S. S.Shetty)

96. “Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Multi-User Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Net-works”, European Signal Processing Conference, Barcelona, Spain,August 29–September 2, 2011. (with S. S. Shetty and K. Agbedanu)

97. “Open-Ended Design and Performance Evaluation of a Biometric Speaker Identifi-cation System”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Seoul, South Korea, pp.2697–2700, May 20–23, 2012. (with R. Polikar, K. D. Dahm and S. S. Shetty)

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98. “Project Based Design of a Biometric Face Recognition System”, ASEE AnnualConference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, June 10–13, 2012. (with R. Polikar,K. D. Dahm, Y. Tang, S. S. Shetty, R. J. Kozick, R. M. Nickel and S. H. Chin)

99. “Detection of Anomalies in Network Traffic Using L2E for Accurate Speaker Recog-nition”, Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Boise, Idaho, pp. 884–887,August 5–8, 2012. (with U. Thayasivam, S. S. Shetty and C. Kuruwita)

100. “Feature and Signal Enhancement for Robust Speaker Identification of G.729 De-coded Speech”, Int. Conf. on Neural Information Processing, pp. 345–352, Doha,Qatar, November 12–15, 2012. (with K. Raval, S. S. Shetty and B. Y. Smolenski)

101. “A Freshman Level Module in Biometric Systems”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuitsand Systems, Beijing, China, pp. 2767–2770, May 19–23, 2013. (with S. Davis, M.Frankle, K. D. Dahm and R. Polikar)

102. “Configuration and Assessment of a Senior Level Course in Biometric Systems”,ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia, June 23–26, 2013. (withR. Polikar, K. D. Dahm, Y. Tang, S. S. Shetty, R. J. Kozick, R. M. Nickel and S. H.Chin)

103. “Conducting State-of-the-art Research in an Institution with a Strong Undergradu-ate Education Focus”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia,June 23–26, 2013. (with Y. Mehta and R. Dusseau)

104. “Automated Human Behavioral Analysis Framework using Facial Feature Extractionand Machine Learning”, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,Pacific Grove, California, pp. 911–914, November 3–6, 2013. (with D. Smirnov, S.Banger, S. Davis and R. Muraleedharan)

105. “Active Analog Circuit Design: Laboratory Project and Assessment”, ASEE An-nual Conference and Exhibition, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 15–18, 2013. (with R.Polikar, K. D. Dahm, Y. Tang, S. S. Shetty, R. J. Kozick, R. M. Nickel and S. H.Chin)

106. “Speech Based Emotion Recognition Using Spectral Feature Extraction and an En-semble of kNN Classifiers”, International Symposium on Chinese Spoken LanguageProcessing, Singapore, September 12–14, 2014. (with S. A. Rieger and R. Muraleed-haran)

107. “Project and Problem Based Learning for Circuits, Systems, VLSI and Digital SignalProcessing Courses”, International Conference on Transformations in EngineeringEducation, pp. 164–169, Bangalore, India, January 5–8, 2015. (with K. D. Dahm,L. M. Head and J. L. Schmalzel)

108. “Distinguishing Medical Drugs From a Large Set of Side Effects Using a DistributedGenetic Algorithm on a PC Cluster”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems,Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 790–793, May 24–27, 2015. (with F. Noor, M. Alhaisoni andM. A. Alhsammari)

109. “Design and Performance Evaluation of a Biometric Iris Verification System”, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, June 14–17, 2015. (withL. Hong, S. S. Shetty, K. D. Dahm, R. J. Kozick, R. M. Nickel, R. Polikar, Y. Tangand S. H. Chin)

110. “Rank-Based Frame Classification for Usable Speech Detection in Speaker Iden-tification Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing,Singapore, pp. 292–296, July 21–24, 2015. (with J. Ethridge)

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111. “Robust L2E Parameter Estimation of Gaussian Mixture Models: Comparison withExpectation Maximization”, Int. Conf. on Neural Information Processing, Istanbul,Turkey, pp. 281–288, November 9–12, 2015. (with U. Thayasivam and C. Kuruwita)

112. “A Comparison of Facial Features and Fusion Methods for Emotion Recognition”,Int. Conf. on Neural Information Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 574–582, Novem-ber 9–12, 2015. (with D. V. Smirnov, R. Muraleedharan)

113. “Planning and Assessment of a Workshop On Undergraduate Education in BiometricSystems, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, June26–29, 2016. (with S. H. Chin, K. D. Dahm, L. Hong, S. S. Shetty, K. D. Dahm, R.M. Nickel, R. J. Kozick, Y. Tang and R. Polikar)

114. “Robust Speaker Recognition in the Presence of Speech Coding Distortion for Re-mote Access Applications”, Int. Conf. on Data Mining, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp.176-183, July 24-29, 2016. (with R. W. Mudrowsky, U. Thayasivam and S. S. Shetty)

115. “Robust Speaker Identification Under Noisy Conditions Using Feature Compensationand Signal to Noise Ratio Estimation”, IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits andSystems, Abu Dhabi, UAE, pp. 133-136, October 16-19, 2016. (with M. Frankle)

116. “Robust Speaker Verification With a Two Classifier Format and Feature Enhance-ment”, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 1946-1949, May 28-31, 2017. (with J. S. Edwards and U. Thayasivam)

117. “A Pattern Recognition Approach to Signal to Noise Ratio Estimation of Speech,ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio, June 25–28, 2017. (withP. Awolumate, M. Rudy, N. Bouaynaya, K. D. Dahm, S. Nazari and U. Thayasivam)

118. “Enhancing Core Chemical Engineering Courses With Computationally IntensiveCourse Modules, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah,June 24–27, 2018. (with K. D. Dahm and N. Bouaynaya)

119. “Introducing Undergraduates to Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning ThroughSpeech Processing, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,Brighton, England, pp. 7635-7639, May 12–17, 2019. (with K. D. Dahm and N.Bouaynaya)

120. “Use of Big Data Analytics in a First Year Engineering Project, ASEE AnnualConference and Exhibition, Tampa, Florida, June 16–19, 2019. (with K. D. Dahmand N. Bouaynaya)

TECHNICAL REPORTS:

1. “Generalized Analysis-by-Synthesis Coding and its Application to Pitch Prediction”,AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, Document No. 11226-911201-31TM, December 1991. (with W. B. Kleijn and P. Kroon)

2. “Robust Quantization of Line Spectral Frequencies”, AT&T Bell Laboratories Tech-nical Memorandum, Document No. 11226-930903-09TM, September 1993. (with M.M. Sondhi, N. Seshadri and B. S. Atal)

3. “Open Set Speaker Identification Using the Modulation Model”, CAIP TechnicalReport, Document No. CAIP-TR-167, October 1993. (with R. J. Mammone, J. L.Flanagan, K. T. Assaleh, K. Farrell and H.-S. Liou)

4. “Fast Computation of the Adaptive Component Weighted Cepstrum for SpeakerRecognition”, CAIP Technical Report, Document No. CAIP-TR-200, January 1995.(with M. S. Zilovic and R. J. Mammone)

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5. “A Modulation Model for Characterizing Speech Signals”, Rome Laboratory AirForce Technical Report, Document No. RL-TR-96-42, March 1996. (with R. J.Mammone, K. T. Assaleh, K. R. Farrell and M. S. Zilovic)

ARTICLES IN BOOKS:

1. “The Use of Pitch Prediction in Speech Coding”, Modern Methods of Speech Pro-cessing, edited by R. P. Ramachandran and R. J. Mammone, Kluwer AcademicPublishers, pp. 3–22, September 1995.

2. “Quantization of Discrete Time Signals”, The Digital Signal Processing Handbook,edited by V. K. Madisetti and D. B. Williams, CRC and IEEE Press, pp. 6-1–6-14,January 1998.

BOOKS:

1. “Modern Methods of Speech Processing”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN No.0-7923-9607-3, 470 pages, September 1995. (edited with R. J. Mammone)

PATENTS:

1. “Apparatus for Treatment of Reperfusion Injury, US Patent US9180043B2, 2011.(with D. R. Merrill, T. J. Nilsen, J. E. Akers, K. Stever, M. Laifenfeld)

AWARDS:

1. Medal from the University of Waterloo for placing on the Canadian Honour List inthe Junior Mathematics Competition, 1979.

2. Concordia University Undergraduate Fellowship, 1981–1984.

3. NSERC Summer Undergraduate Research Award, 1982, 83, 84.

4. Order of Engineers of Quebec Scholarship of Excellence, Concordia University, 1984.

5. John H. Chapman Memorial Prize as the best student in the Communications option(given by Spar Aerospace), Concordia University, 1984.

6. The Electrical Engineering Medal as the most outstanding student in EE, ConcordiaUniversity, 1984.

7. The Morris Chait Medal as the highest ranking student in the B. Eng. program,Concordia University, 1984.

8. NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship for the Master’s degree, 1984–1986.

9. FCAR Scholarship for the Master’s degree, 1984–1986.

10. NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship for the Ph.D. degree, 1986–1988.

11. FCAR Scholarship for the Ph.D. degree, 1986–1989.

12. NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1990–1992.

13. Mentioned in Strathmore’s Who’s Who.

14. Rowan University Excellence in Scholarship, 1998–2002.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

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WITHIN ROWAN UNIVERSITY:

1. Member of Electrical Engineering Faculty Search Committee, Rowan University,1997–2001, 2012–2015.

2. Chair of Electrical Engineering Faculty Search Committee, Rowan University, 2001–2002.

3. Member of Mechanical Engineering Faculty Search Committee, Rowan University,1997–1998.

4. Member of Research and Technological Resources Committee, Rowan University,1997–1999.

5. Member of Engineering Curriculum Committee, Rowan University, 1998–1999, 2011-present.

6. Member of Curriculum Standing Committee, Rowan University, 1998–2001.

7. Chair of Engineering Curriculum Committee, Rowan University, 1999–2001.

8. Member of Rowan University Senate, 1999–2001, 2011-2019.

9. Member of Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, RowanUniversity, 2001–2002, 2005–2006.

10. Chair of Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Rowan Uni-versity, 2011–present.

11. Member of Electrical Engineering Graduate Curriculum Committee, Rowan Univer-sity, 2001–2002.

12. Member of Bookstore Committee, Rowan University, 2002–2003, 2008–2009.

13. Member of Academic Policies and Procedures Committee, Rowan University, 2004–2006, 2009–2014, 2015–2018.

14. Member of Electrical Engineering Department Tenure Committee, Rowan University,2005–2007, 2017-2019.

15. Member of Electrical Engineering Department Promotion Committee, Rowan Uni-versity, 2006–2007.

16. Member of College of Engineering Promotion Committee, Rowan University, 2007–2008, 2012–2019.

17. Chair of College of Engineering Promotion Committee, Rowan University, 2008–2010.

18. Member of Task Force on Systems Engineering, Rowan University, 2008–2010.

19. Member of Library Committee, Rowan University, 2008–2009.

20. Member of Academic Integrity Committee, Rowan University, 2014–2015.

21. Member of Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee, Rowan University, 2016–present.

OUTSIDE ROWAN UNIVERSITY:

1. Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Cir-cuits and Systems, San Diego, California, May 1992.

2. Session Chairman for the session entitled “Unconventional Arithmetic and LogicSystems”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, San Diego, Cal-ifornia, May 1992.

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3. Session Co-Chairman for the session entitled “Digital Signal Processing 4”, MidwestSymposium on Circuits and Systems, Washington, DC, August 1992.

4. Member of Technical Program Committee, Midwest Symposium on Circuits andSystems, Detroit, Michigan, August 1993.

5. Session Co-Chairman for the session entitled “Digital Signal Processing II”, MidwestSymposium on Circuits and Systems, Detroit, Michigan, August 1993.

6. Organizer and Session Chairman for the special session entitled “Topics in SpeechProcessing”, Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Detroit, Michigan, Au-gust 1993.

7. Member of Technical Program Committee, Midwest Symposium on Circuits andSystems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1995.

8. Member of Ph.D. Defense Committee of Steve M. Wiener, “Face Recognition in aDynamic Environment”, Rutgers University, March 1998.

9. Member of Masters Defense Committee of Venkat K. Gopalakrishnan, “Restorationof Three-Dimensional Images From a High Numerical Aperture Reflecting Micro-scope”, Rutgers University, April 1999.

10. Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Cir-cuits and Systems, Orlando, Florida, May 1999.

11. Session Chairman for the session entitled “Speech Processing”, IEEE InternationalSymposium on Circuits and Systems, Orlando, Florida, May 1999.

12. Member of Technical Program Committee, Midwest Symposium on Circuits andSystems, Las Cruces, New Mexico, August 1999.

13. Member of Technical Program Committee, Midwest Symposium on Circuits andSystems, East Lansing, Michigan, August 2000.

14. Member of Editorial Board, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, September 2000–December 2015.

15. Member of Organizing Committee, ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring 2001 Confer-ence, Glassboro, New Jersey, April 2001.

16. Session Chairman for the session entitled, “Computers and Electrical”, ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring 2001 Conference, Glassboro, New Jersey, April 2001.

17. Session Chairman for the session entitled, “Speech and Audio Processing”, IEEEInternational Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sydney, Australia, May 2001.

18. Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition, February 2002–2010.

19. Organizer and Session Chairman for the special session entitled “Speech and Au-dio Processing”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Phoenix,Arizona, May 2002.

20. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, September2002–September 2005.

21. Member of Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Circuits and Sys-tems Society, May 2002–present.

22. Member of Speech Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society,September 2002–September 2005.

23. Organizer and Session Chairman for the special session entitled “Speech andLamguage Processing”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,Bangkok, Thailand, May 2003.

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24. Organizer and Session Chairman for the special session entitled “Advances in SpeechProcessing with Applications”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Sys-tems, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004.

25. Member of Ph.D. Defense Committee of Brett Y. Smolenski, “Usable Speech Pro-cessing: A Filterless Approach to Speaker Identification in the Presence of Non-Stationary Interference”, Temple University, May 2005.

26. Member of Alfred Noble Prize Awards Committee, January 2005–January 2008.

27. Member of IEEE External Awards Committee, April 2006–December 2006.

28. Session Chairman for the session entitled “Audio and Speech Processing”, IEEEInternational Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos, Greece, May 2006.

29. Member of Technical Program Committee, European Signal Processing Conference(EUSIPCO), 2008, 2009.

30. Session Chairman for the session entitled “Digital Audio and Speech Processing”,IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, Washington, May2008.

31. Organizer and Session Chairman for the special session entitled “Pattern Recognitionin Speech Processing”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009.

32. National Science Foundation Review Panel Member, Course, Curriculum and Labo-ratory Improvement Type 1 Program, 2009.

33. Guest Editor for Special Issue of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine entitled,“Speaker and Language Recognition”, June 2011.

34. Guest Editor for Special Issue of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine enti-tled, “Rethinking Circuits and Systems Education: Exploring New Pedagogies andApproaches”, September 2014.

35. National Science Foundation Review Panel Member, Improving Undergraduate Sci-ence, Technology, Engibneering and Mathematics Education, Type 1 Program, 2014.

36. Member of Education Technical Committee, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society,May 2015–present.

37. Guest Editor for Special Issue of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing entitled,“Algorithms and Architectures for Machine Learning Based Speech Processing, Au-gust 2019.

RESEARCH AND EDUCATION GRANTS:

1. Co-principal investigator, “A Modulation Model for Characterizing Speech Signals”,Rome Air Force Laboratory, $5,153,936, 1993–1994. (with R. J. Mammone (P.I.), J.L. Flanagan and M. S. Zilovic)

2. Co-principal investigator, “Identification and Compensation of Nonlinearities in Ra-dio Communication Systems”, Rome Air Force Laboratory, $100,000, August 1995–August 1996. (with R. J. Mammone (P.I.))

3. Principal investigator, “Speaker Identification and Authentication”, New JerseyState Technology Transfer Merit Program, $20,935, July 1995–June 1996. (in col-laboration with SpeakEZ Inc.)

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4. Co-principal investigator, “Methods for Cochannel Speaker Separation”, Small Busi-ness Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Phase 1, Department of Defense, $74,830,May 1996–October 1996. (with M. Sharma (P.I.) and R. J. Mammone)

5. Co-principal investigator, “Cochannel Speech Separation and Interference ReductionSystem”, CAIP Internal Research Funding Program, $21,000, July 1996–June 1997.(with R. J. Mammone (P.I.))

6. Principal investigator, “Speaker Count Determination for Cochannel InterferenceReduction Using Linear Predictive, Pitch and Statistical Techniques”, Rome AirForce Laboratory, $205,791, March 1997–March 1998. (with A. Garcia and E. J.Devinney)

7. Co-principal investigator, “A Real-Time Computer Vision/Object Recognition Sys-tem”, Rowan University Sponsored Research and Creative Activity Fund, $4,900,January 1998–June 1998. (with S. A. Mandayam (P.I.))

8. Co-principal investigator, “Competitive Assessment Laboratory”, National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program, $55,600($55,600 matched by Rowan University), July 1998–June 2000. (with A. Marchese(P.I.), R. P. Hesketh, J. L. Schmalzel, K. Jahan and J. Mariappan)

9. Principal investigator, “Objective Assessment of Music Quality”, Sonymusic, $7,500,June 1998–October 1998.

10. Principal investigator, “Proper Name Pronunciation Project”, Periphonics, $6,030,May 1999–August 1999. (with L. M. Head)

11. Principal investigator, “A Multidisciplinary Control Systems Laboratory”, NationalScience Foundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Pro-gram, $46,433 ($46,433 matched by Rowan University), July 1999–June 2001. (withJ. Mariappan and S. Farrell)

12. Principal investigator, “Automated Compact Disc Transfer for Quality AssuranceTesting”, Sonymusic, $10,000, September 1999–May 2000. (with J. C. Chen, L. M.Head and C. Gabler)

13. Principal investigator, “C Compilers for the TMS320C31 Digital Signal ProcessingStarter Kits”, Texas Instruments University Donation Program, $7,500, February2000. (with J. L. Schmalzel)

14. Co-principal investigator, “Field Investigation of Advanced Vehicle ReidentificationTechniques and Detector Technologies, Phase 1”, California Partners for AdvancedTransit and Highways (PATH), $26,885 (subcontractor to University of CaliforniaIrvine), June 2000–June 2001. (with C. Sun (P.I.))

15. Co-principal investigator, “Seismic and Vibration Analysis of DRPA Bridges”,Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA), $999,931, August 2000–November 2004.(with R. A. Dusseau (P.I.), D. Cleary and B. Sukumaran)

16. Principal investigator, “Communications, Signal Processing and VLSI: EducationUnder a Common Framework”, National Science Foundation (NSF) Course, Cur-riculum and Laboratory Improvement Program, $74,939 ($41,996 matched by RowanUniversity), March 2001–February 2003. (with S. H. Chin, L. M. Head, S. A. Man-dayam and J. L. Schmalzel)

17. Co-principal investigator, “Interactive Simulation for Teaching Engineering Eco-nomics”, National Science Foundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum and LaboratoryImprovement Program, $74,914 ($37,092 matched by Rowan University), May 2002–April 2005. (with K. D. Dahm (P.I.))

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18. Co-principal investigator, “Experiments for Integrating BME Concepts Into the ECECurriculum”, National Science Foundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum and Labora-tory Improvement Program, $74,389 ($70,979 matched by Rowan University), June2003–May 2007. (with R. Polikar (P.I.), L. M. Head and M. Tahamont)

19. Principal investigator, “Objective Assessment of Speech Quality Using PatternRecognition Techniques”, Rome Air Force Laboratory, $96,015, February 2005–October 2007. (with L. M. Head)

20. Co-principal investigator, “A Collaborative Proposal to Integrate System On ChipConcepts Into Two Year Engineering Science and Four Year ECE Curricula”, Na-tional Science Foundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum and Laboratory ImprovementProgram, $175,171, June 2007–May 2010. (with Y. Tang (P.I.), L. M. Head and L.M. Chatman)

21. Principal investigator, “PESQ Software for Voice Quality”, Rowan University Dean’sIndirect Allocation Fund, $6,000, July 2008–June 2009.

22. Principal investigator, “Distortion Free Temporal Region Determination of SpeechWith Application to Speaker Identification”, Rome Air Force Laboratory, $102,524,October 2010-September 2012.

23. Principal investigator, “Course Development Biometric Systems”, New Jersey SpaceGrant Consortium, $4,000, April 2011-September 2011.

24. Principal investigator, “Speech Biometric For Safer Air Travel”, New Jersey SpaceGrant Consortium, $8,000, June 2011-September 2011.

25. Principal investigator, “Collaborative Research: Vertical Integration of Concepts andLaboratory Experiences in Biometrics Across the Four Year Electrical and ComputerEngineering Curriculum”, National Science Foundation (NSF) Transforming Under-graduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES)Type 2 Program, $356,654, October 1, 2011–December 31, 2016 (with R. Polikar,Y. Tang, K. D. Dahm and S. H. Chin). In collaboration with Bucknell University($111,700) and Tennessee State University ($131,080).

26. Co-principal investigator, “Laser Scanning Aggregates for Real Time Property Iden-tification”, UTRC-NJDOT, $222,227, August 1, 2013- June 30, 2016. (with B. Suku-maran (P.I.) and M. J. Lim)

27. Senior Personnel, “MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Computer (HPC) toIntegrate Data Intensive Research and Education: Bringing HPC to South Jersey”,National Science Foundation (NSF), $397,024, September 1, 2014–August 31, 2017.(with N. Bouaynaya (P.I.), R. Polikar, B. Sukumaran and W. Chun)

28. Co-principal investigator, “Engaging in STEM Education in Big Data Analyticsand Technologies: A Rowan-Cove Initiative”, National Science Foundation (NSF)Improving Undergraduate STEM Education, $299,930, October 1, 2016–September30, 2020 (with N. Bouaynaya (P.I.), R. Nazari, K. D. Dahm and J. Moore).

29. Co-principal investigator, Biometric Speaker Recognition: Robust Parameter Esti-mation, Rowan University Seed Funding, $10,000, July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017. (withU. Thayasivam (P.I.))

30. Co-principal investigator, Rowans Graduate Fellowship Prepares for the Modern Ageof Artificial Intelligence, Department of Education, $1,194,000 and a Rowan matchof $316,000, January 1, 2019-December 31, 2021. (with G. Rasool (P.I.), F. Haas,R. Polikar, N. Bouaynaya and C. Bodnar)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

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I have taught the following courses at Rutgers:

1. Neurocomputer System Design

2. Digital Speech Processing

3. Digital Signals and Filters

4. Computational Methods of Signal Recovery

I have taught the following undergraduate courses at Rowan:

1. Freshman Engineering Clinic I

2. Freshman Engineering Clinic II

3. Sophomore Engineering Clinic I

4. Sophomore Engineering Clinic II

5. Statics

6. Digital I

7. Networks I

8. Networks II

9. Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic

10. Systems and Control I

11. Digital Signal Processing

12. Complex Variables

13. Signals and Systems

I have taught the following undergraduate/graduate courses at Rowan:

1. Digital Signal Processing

2. Digital Speech Processing

3. Architectures for Digital Signal Processing

4. Adaptive Filters

5. Advanced Digital Signal Processing

6. VHDL/Digital Signal Processing

7. Biometric Systems

GRADUATE SUPERVISION:

DOCTORAL STUDENT:

1. Michael A. F. Lewis, “New Pitch Based Techniques for Speech Enhancement andSpeaker Count Determination”, May 1998 (through City University of New York).

MASTERS STUDENTS:

1. Glen Roames, “Field Measurements for the Delaware River Port Authority”, May2002 (with D. Cleary and R. Dusseau).

2. Glenn Maenza, “A Study of Subtle Sound Differences on Compact Discs HavingIdentical Digital Data”, October 2002.

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3. David L. Reynolds, “VLSI Implementation of an Efficient Method for the Compu-tation of Line Spectral Frequencies”, November 2004.

4. Arthur L. Swanson, “Fast and Robust Adaptive Component Weighted CepstrumPole Filtering for Speaker Identification”, January 2005.

5. Matthew J. Marbach, “Use of Principal Component Analysis with Linear PredictiveFeatures in Developing a Blind SNR Estimation System”, November 2006.

6. Russell P. Ondusko, “Use of Linear Predictive Features and Pattern RecognitionTechniques To Develop a Vector Quantization Based Blind SNR Estimation System”,February 2008.

7. Kalpesh Raval, “Feature and Signal Enhancement Methods Combined with Fusionfor Robust GMM Based Speaker Identification in the Presence of G.729 Distortion”,October 2011.

8. Robert W. Mudrowsky, “Robust Speaker Recognition in the Presence of SpeechCoding Distortion”, August 2016.

9. Megan Frankle, “Robust Speaker Identification Under Noisy Conditions Using Fea-ture Compensation and Signal to Noise Ratio Estimation”, October 2016.

10. Joshua S. Edwards, “Using Gaussian Mixture Model and Partial Least Squares Re-gression Classifiers for Robust Speaker Verification with Various Enhancement Meth-ods”, November 2016.

11. Demiyan Smirnov, “Emotion Recognition Using Facial Feature Extraction”, Novem-ber 2018.

REVIEWER:

I have reviewed research papers for:

1. IEEE Transactions on Communications

2. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

3. Speech Communication

4. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

5. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

6. Journal of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India

7. Electronics Letters

8. IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems

9. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

10. IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

11. Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

12. IEEE Signal Processing Letters

13. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

14. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

15. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

16. Digital Signal Processing

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17. Signal Processing

18. International Journal of Engineering Education

19. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

20. International Journal of Speech Technology

21. Pattern Recognition

22. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

23. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

24. IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

25. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)

26. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C

27. Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing

28. IEEE Transactions on Education

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS:

1. Senior Member, The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

2. Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

INVITED SEMINARS:

1. “Bandwidth Efficient Modulated Filter Banks: Synthesis and Performance Consid-erations”, McMaster University, August 9th, 1989.

2. “Interpolation of Pitch Predictor Parameters with Applications to CELP”, INRSTelecommunications, June 5th, 1992.

3. “Interpolation of Pitch Predictor Parameters with Applications to CELP”, IndianInstitute of Technology (Bombay), August 17th, 1992.

4. “A Two Codebook Format for Robust Quantization of Linear Predictive Parame-ters”, Villanova University, April 28th, 1995.

5. “Robust Features for Speaker Recognition”, IBM T. J. Watson, Research Center,April 19th, 2004.

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HOME ADDRESS:

42 Steeplechase DriveTurnersville, New Jersey08012USA

OFFICE ADDRESS:

Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringRowan University201 Mullica Hill RoadGlassboro, New Jersey08028USA

PHONE NUMBERS:

Residence: 856-401-1372

Office: 856-256-5334

Fax: 856-256-5241

EMAIL ADDRESS:

ravi@rowan.edu

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