|
James Flanagan is Vice President for Research at
Rutgers University. He is also Director of the Center for Advanced Information
Processing (CAIP), and Board of Governors Professor in Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Rutgers is the State University of New Jersey, with an enrollment
of 50,000 and a faculty and staff of 8,000. CAIP is an Advanced Technology
Center sponsored jointly by industry and government. It conducts research
in parallel and distributed computing, image and speech processing, graphics
and data visualization, human/machine communications, robotics, and software
engineering.
Flanagan joined Rutgers after extended service in research and research
management at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He was previously Director of
Information Principles Research, with responsibilities in digital communications
and information systems. Flanagan holds the Doctor of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He previously received the Master of Science degree from MIT, and the Bachelor
of Science degree from Mississippi State University, following service
in the U.S. Army.
Flanagan has published approximately 200 technical papers in scientific
journals. He is the author of a research text Speech Analysis, Synthesis
and Perception (Springer Verlag), which has appeared in five printings
and two editions, and has been translated in Russian. He holds 50 U.S.
patents in his specialty fields.
Flanagan has served in officer and board positions for a number of
technical societies, government and academic organizations - including
the Department of Defense, National Research Council, National Institute
of Standards and Technology, American Institute of Physics, IEEE, Acoustical
Society of America, and several universities.
- Education
- B.S. - Mississippi State University
M.S. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D.Sc. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Research Interests
- Currently interested in evolving techniques
for automatic speech synthesis and recognition. Other interests include
voice communications, computer techniques and electroacoustic systems.
- Awards and Recognitions
- National Medal of Science
L.M. Ericsson International Prize in Telecommunications
Edison Medal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Medal of the European Speech Communication Association
Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America
Marconi International Fellowship
A Fellow of IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences
Awarded Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris-Sud
and from the Polytechnic University of Madrid
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the National
Academy of Sciences
|
