CLEMENTS, MARK A Joseph M. Pettit Professor Emeritus EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

CLEMENTS, MARK A. ? Joseph M. Pettit Professor Emeritus

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0250

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Sc.D. (Doctorate), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

E.E. (Engineer's), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979

S.M. (Master's), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978

S.B. (Bachelor's), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Massachusetts Institute of Technology o Graduate Teaching Assistant 1976-1978 o National Institutes of Health Trainee 1979-1981 o Graduate Research Assistant 1981-1982

Verbex Corporation Research Associate (Consulting) 1979-1981 Georgia Institute of Technology

o Assistant Professor 1982 - 1988 o Associate Professor 1988 - 1993 o Professor 1993-2008 o Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Digital Signal Processing 2008-2017 o Professor Emeritus 2018 - present o Director, Interactive Media Technology Center, 2000-2012

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Dr. Clements has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in probability and speech and signal processing, pattern recognition, and random processes. He was technical program co-chairman of Speech Tech '86 and Technical Program Chair of ICASSP '96. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, has served a member of the IEEE speech technical committee, and has been an associate editor of speech processing for IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, and has served on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Currently, he is an associate editor for the EURASIP International Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. He has been principal investigator on numerous sponsored research projects, primarily concerned with speech processing. Notable federal sponsors include the CIA, NSA, DARPA, Air Force, Navy, NSF, and NIH. He has served as the Director of Georgia Tech's Interactive Media Technology

Center and is a founder of Nexidia, an Atlanta company devoted to speech technology which currently employs 250 people. He held the Joseph M. Pettit Endowed Professorship in Digital Signal Processing at Georgia Tech. In 2016, he was honored with a Technology and Engineering Emmy award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for technology fundamental to television production. He is a named inventor on 10 issued US patents.

CURRENT FIELDS OF INTEREST

Digital speech processing and analysis, speech recognition, analysis and compensation of stress and noise in speech, sensory aids for the hearing impaired, pattern recognition, digital signal processing, information retrieval

HONORS AND AWARDS

1. Supervised Investors Award for Best Teacher in Electrical Engineering, MIT 1979

2. Technical Program Co-Chairman, SpeechTech '86 - 1986 3. Technical Program Chair IEEE ICASSP 1996 4. Sigma Xi Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award, Georgia Tech - 1988, 1991, and 1997. 5. Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Advisor Award, Georgia Tech - 1989 6. IEEE Fellow ? 2005 7. Appointed as Joseph M. Pettit Endowed Professor ? 2008 8. Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award

? 2011 9. 2016 Technology and Engineering Emmy? Award for Phonetic Indexing and

Timing.

Major Consulting Activities

1. Lanier Worldwide, 1982-2000 (Voice compression, analysis, recognition) 2. Clearline Communications, 1997-1998 (Speech enhancement for wireless telecom) 3. Medacoustics, 1999-2000 (Pattern recognition for heart disease diagnosis) 4. Galaxy Engineering,1998 (Objective voice quality assessment) 5. Fast-Talk Communications, (now Nexidia, Inc.), 2000-2016, member of the board of

directors 6. Personics Laboratories 2007- 2012

PUBLICATIONS

Theses

1. M. A. Clements, "An Evaluation of Two Tactile Speech displays," S.M. Thesis, M.I.T., September 1978.

2. M. A. Clements, "A Comparative Evaluation of Different Signal Processing Techniques for Communication of Speech Through the Tactile Sense," Sc.D. Thesis, M.I.T., January 1982.

Books or Parts of Books

1. S. R. Quackenbush, T. P. Barnwell, and M. A. Clements, Objective Measures for Speech Quality Testing, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1988.

2. Digital Signal Acquisition and Representation, Chapter 2 in Animal Acoustic Communications, S. Hopp, (ed.) Springer-Verlag, 1998.

3. M. A. Clements, "Automatic Recognition of Speech in Stress," U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory Printing Office, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 67 page research monograph, 1991.

4. G. Miao and M. Clements, Digital Signal Processing and Statistical Pattern Recognition, Artech House, 508 pages, June 2002.

5. Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Jinyu Li, Giovanni Pilato, Giorgio Vassallo, Mark A. Clements, Antonio Gentile, Filippo Sorbello, "Application of EalphaNets to Feature Recognition of Articulation Manner in Knowledge-Based Automatic Speech Recognition," Chapter in Neural Nets, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006.

6. Hrishikesh Rao, Mark A. Clements, Yin Li, Meghan R. Swanson, and Daniel S. Messinger, "Paralinguistic Analysis of Children's Speech in Natural Environments," in Mobile Health: Sensors, Analytic Methods, and Applications, Editors: Santosh Kumar, Jim Rehg and Susan Murphy, Springer Publishers, 2016.

Refereed Journal Publications

1. M. Clements, D. Mook, N. Durlach, and L. Braida, "Experiments with Optacon-Based Speech Displays," Speech Communication Papers of the Acoustic Society of America, June 1979.

2. J. Snyder, M. Clements, C. Reed, N. Durlach, L. Braida, "Tactile Communication of Speech, Part I: Comparison of Tadoma and Frequency-Amplitude Spectral Display in a Consonant Discrimination Task," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 71, pp. 1249-1254, 1982.

3. M. Clements, L. Braida, and N. Durlach, "Comparison of Two Tactile Speech Codes," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 71, S59, 1982.

4. M. Clements, N. Durlach, L. Braida, "Tactile Communication of Speech Part II: Comparison of Two Spectral Displays in a Vowel Discrimination Task," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 72, pp. 1131-1135, 1982.

5. M. H. Hayes and M. A. Clements, "An Iterative Approach to Pisarenko's Harmonic Decomposition," IEEE Trans. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing, 34, pp. 485492, June 1986.

6. M. H. Hayes, M. A. Clements, and D. M. Wilkes, "Iterative Harmonic Decomposition of Non-Stationary Random Processes: Theory and Application to Spectral Line Tracking,"

Mathematics in Signal Processing, T. S. Durrani et al., Editors, pp. 105-119, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1987. 7. M. A. Clements, "Voice Recognition Systems can be Designed to Serve a Variety of Purposes," Industrial Engineering, 19, 44-57, Sept. 1987. 8. M. A. Clements and S. H. Isabelle, "Reconstruction of a Positive Definite Toeplitz Matrix from Its Sequence of Minimum Eigenvalues," IEEE Trans. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-36, pp. 1784-86, November 1988. 9. M. A. Clements and J. Pease, "On Causal Linear Phase IIR Digital Filter," IEEE Trans. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing, April 1989. 10. M. A. Clements, L. D. Braida, and N. I. Durlach, "Tactile Communication of Speech: III. Quantitative Evaluation of a Computer-Based Tactile Speech Display," Journal of Rehabilitative Engineering, May 1989. 11. D. J. Pepper, T. P. Barnwell, and M. A. Clements, "Using a Ring Parallel Processor for Hidden Markov Model Training," IEEE Trans. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing, Feb. 1990. 12. D. J. Pepper and M. A. Clements, "Phonetic Recognition Using a Large Hidden Markov Model," IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, June 1992. 13. J. H. Hansen and M. A. Clements, "Constrained Iterative Speech Enhancement," IEEE Trans. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing, Feb. 1991. 14. B. Carlson and M. Clements, "A Computationally Compact Divergence Measure for Speech Processing." IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Dec. 1992, pp. 1255-1260. 15. B. Carlson and M. Clements, "A Projection-Based Likelihood Measure for Speech Recognition in Noise," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Jan. 1994, pp. 97102. 16. S. Lim and M. Clements, "Pseudo-Continuous Hidden Markov Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition," Proc. IEEE Southeastcon, (special refereed, section) 7 pages, Birmingham, AL, April 12-15, 1992. 17. K. E. Cummings and M. A. Clements, "Glottal Models for Digital Speech Processing: A Historical Review and New Results," Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 21-42, January 1995. (invited) 18. R. Cole, L. Hirschman, et al. (including M. Clements), "the Challenge of Spoken Language Systems: Research Directions for the Nineties," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-21, January 1995. 19. J. Hansen and M. Clements, "Source Generation Equalization and Enhancement of Spectral Properties for Robust Speech Recognition in Noise and Stress," IEEE Trans. of Speech and Audio Processing, Sept. 1995, pp. 407-415. 20. M. Macon and M. Clements, "Sinusoidal Modeling and Modification of Unvoiced Speech," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio, Nov. 1997, pp. 557-560. 21. David V. Anderson and Mark A. Clements, "Multi-resolution Sinusoidal Modeling," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 22. R. Morris and M. Clements, "Modification of Formants in the Line Spectrum Domain, " IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol 9, pp 19-21 January 2002. 23. Cardillo, P. Clements, M., Miller, M., "Phonetic Searching vs Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition," International Journal of Speech Technology, pp 9-22, January 2002.

24. Robert Morris and Mark Clements, "Reconstruction of Speech from Whispers," International Journal of Medical Engineering and Physics, Dec 2002, pp 515-520.

25. Xiaozheng Zhang, Charles C. Broun, Russell M. Mersereau, Mark A. Clements, "Automatic Speechreading with Applications to Human-Computer Interfaces," EURASIP JASP special Issue on Joint Audio-Visual Speech Processing, October 2002, pp12281248.

26. M. E. Lee, M. Clements, A. S. Durey, and E. Moore, "A Framework for an Ultra Low Bit Rate Speech Coder," GESTS International Transaction on Acoustic Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 112-123., May 2005.

27. Qiang Fu, Mark A. Clements, John W. Peifer, Klaus Mewes: "A Study of the Classification on Neurons between Globus Pallidus Externus (GPe) Cells and Globus Pallidus Internus (GPi) Cells by Gaussian Mixture Models," Journal of Next Generation Information Technology, Volume 1, pp 45-60, August 2005.

28. Elliot Moore, Mark Clements, John Peifer, and Lydia Weisser, "Investigating the Impact of Voice Source Analysis in Classifying Clinical Depression," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 96-108, January 2008.

29. Harold Cheyne, Kaustubh Kalgaonkar, Mark Clements, and Patrick Zurek, "Talker-toListener Distance Effects on Speech Production and Perception," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 126, Issue 4, pp. 2052-2060 (October 2009).

30. Ik Joo Chung and Mark Clements, "Generalized Robust Multichannel Frequency-Domain LMS Algorithms for Blind Channel Identification," ETRI Journal, vol.34, no.1, Feb. 2012, pp 130-133.

31. J. C. Kim, H. Rao, and M. A. Clements, "Investigating the use of formant based features for detection of affective dimensions in speech," in Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, pp. 369?377, Springer, 2011.

32. Teresa H. Sanders, Mark A. Clements, and Thomas Wichmann, "Parkinsonism-related Features of Neuronal Discharge in Primates," Journal of Neurophysiology, 2013.

33. Teresa H. Sanders, Annaelle DeVergnas, Mark A. Clements, and Thomas Wichmann, "Correlations between Parkinsonian Motor Scores and Frequency Features from Subthalamic Nucleus Local Field Potentials and Electroencephalograms," Journal of Neurophysiology, 2013.

34. Jonathan C. Kim and Mark A. Clements, "Multimodal Affect Classification at Various Temporal Lengths," accepted to IEEE Journal on Affective Computing, January 2015.

35. Jonathan C. Kim, Hrishikesh Rao, and Mark A. Clements, "Speech Intelligibility Estimation for Pathological Voices Using Multi-Resolution Spectral Features," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136, EL315 (2014)

36. Brett A. Matthews and Mark A. Clements, "Spike Sorting by Joint Probabilistic Modeling of Neural Spike Trains and Waveforms," Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 643059, 12 pages, April 2014 (invited for Special Issue on "Modeling and Analysis of Neural Spike Trains").

37. Yachna Sharma, Eric L. Sarin, Mark A. Clements, Irfan Essa "Automated Video-Based Assessment of Surgical Skills for Training and Evaluation in Medical Schools." International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, September 2016, Volume 11, Issue 9, pp 1623?1636.

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