Carol Espy-Wilson

Carol Espy-Wilson is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland.  Dr. Espy-Wilson received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1979, and a M.S., E.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, 1984 and 1987, respectively. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, Dr. Espy-Wilson was a faculty member at Boston University. Dr. Espy-Wilson's research is in speech communication. She combines knowledge of digital signal processing, speech science, linguistics and acoustic phonetics to conduct interdisciplinary research in speech recognition, speech production and speaker recognition. Specific research projects include developing (a) a speech signal representation that contains only linguistic information, (b) a speech signal representation that highlights speaker characteristics, (c) a probabilistic framework for an event-based speech recognition system, (d) supervised and unsupervised acoustic models for speaker recognition and (e) vocal tract models of complex speech sounds. 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.