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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.