ECE FACULTY

Carol Y. Espy-Wilson

Title: Professor
Areas/Affiliations: ECE, ISR
E-mail: espy@umd.edu
Phone: (301)405-7411
Office: A.V. Williams 2205
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Biography:

Carol Espy-Wilson received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1979. She received her M.S., E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1981, 1984 and 1987, respectively. She was on faculty at Boston University from 1990 to 2001 and is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She directs the Speech Communication Lab at UMD.

She is the receipient of the NSF Minority Initiation Award (1990-1992), the Clare Booth Luce Professorship (1990-1995) the NIH Independent Scientist Award (1998-2003), the Honda Initiation Award (2004-2005), and a Radcliffe Fellowship (2008).

Dr. Espy-Wilson is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and she is Chair of the Speech Technical Committee of the ASA (2007-2010). She is a Senior Member of IEEE and an elected member of Sigma Xi. She has served as an elected member on the Acoustical of Society of America Technical Committee on Speech Communication from 1993-1999. She is an associate editor of the Acoustical Society of America's magazine, Acoustics Today.

Research Interests:

Professor Espy-Wilson's research interests include the integration of engineering, linguistics and speech science to study speech communication. She is developing an approach to speech recognition based on phonetic features to address the limitations of present recognizers (e.g., speaker dependence). She also conducts research in the areas of speech production, speech enhancement, speaker recognition, single-channel speaker separation and Language and Genre detection in Audio Content Analysis. A major focus of her research is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between articulation, acoustics and perception. This knowledge is important for speech recognition, speech synthesis and the study of speech impairments. Prof. Espy-Wilson heads the Speech Communication Lab where postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students perform research. Professor Espy-Wilson teaches the advanced graduate level course, Speech and Audio Processing, ENEE 632.

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