People
Richard S. McGowan, Manager and Researcher
Research Interests:
the aeroacoustics of speech, children's speech, and the speech inverse problem
Education:
1981-1985 M.S., Ph.D., Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
1977-1978 M.E., Engineering Physics, University of Virginia
1971-1975 B.A., magna cum laude, Mathematics and Physics, Kenyon College
Professional Experience:
2000-present Manager, CReSS LLC. Consulting and research in acoustics and speech.
2002 Instructor of speech science at Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1996-present Research Affiliate at Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
1996-2001 Senior Scientist at Sensimetrics Corporation. Project leader for speech synthesis rules. Grant P. I. for speech inverse problem. Grant P. I. for talker characterization. Speech synthesis rules.
1996 Visiting Researcher at SRI International. Speech recognition: speaker adaptation. Research on articulatory representation in speech recognition.
1985-1996 Scientific Investigator at Haskins Laboratories. Concerned with articulatory synthesis, the speech inverse problem, models of phonation, and other sound production.
1994-1996 Associate Professor Adjunct, Surgery (Otolaryngology), School of Medicine, Yale University.
1993-1996 Adjunct member of the faculty of The Graduate School and University Center's Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences, City University of New York.
1991 Instructor in Mechanical Engineering, Yale University: graduate course in acoustics (Topics in aeroacoustics and nonlinear acoustics).
1989 Instructor in Mechanical Engineering, Yale University: undergraduate course in acoustics.
1981-1985 Part-time programmer and mathematician for speech signal analysis at Haskins Laboratories.
1984 Instructor of Mathematics at Connecticut College, New London, CT. Calculus, differential equations, and numerical methods.
1981 Adjunct professor of mathematics at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT. Brief calculus and multivariable calculus.
1978-1980 Analytical engineer in acoustics at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, East Hartford, CT. Data analysis, experimental set-up, and theoretical work.