Kamil Wojcicki Resume [PDF available at: cv.dsplabs.com.au] CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75080, United States mobile: +1 972 591 8880 web: www.dsplabs.com.au RESEARCH INTERESTS Speech processing, speech enhancement, speech and speaker recognition, speech perception, machine learning and pattern recognition. EDUCATION Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering February 2005 - April 2011 * Topic: Role of the short-time phase spectrum in speech processing * Advisors: Prof Kuldip Paliwal and Dr Stephen So Bachelor of Information Technology, February 2000 - April 2005 Bachelor of Engineering in Microelectronic Engineering (Hons) * Majors: Computing Science, Computer Systems HONORS AND AWARDS * Best Paper Award, Griffith School of Engineering Research Conference, Nathan, Queensland, Australia, 2007 * Australian Research Council (ARC) Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Nathan, Queensland, Australia, 2005-2010 * Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia, 2000 * National Mathematics Summer School, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 1999, 2000 * Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Academic Achievement, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1999 * Award for Best Design, Electronics Competition, The Electronics Educators Association, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 1998 PUBLICATIONS * Paliwal, K.K., Schwerin, B. and K.K. Wojcicki, Speech enhancement using a minimum mean-square error short-time spectral modulation magnitude estimator. Speech Communication, Sep. 2011. * Paliwal, K.K., Schwerin, B. and K.K. Wojcicki, Single channel speech enhancement using MMSE estimation of short-time modulation magnitude spectrum. In Proc. INTERSPEECH, Florence, Italy, Aug. 2011. * Paliwal, K.K., Wojcicki, K.K. and B.J. Shannon, The importance of phase in speech enhancement. Speech Communication, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 465-494, Apr. 2011. * Paliwal, K.K., Schwerin, B. and K.K. Wojcicki, Role of modulation magnitude and phase spectrum towards speech intelligibility. Speech Communication, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 327-339, Mar. 2011. * Paliwal, K.K., Lyons, J.G. and K.K. Wojcicki. Preference for 20-40 ms window duration in speech analysis. In Proc. GSERC, Gold Coast, Australia, Dec 2010. * Paliwal, K.K., Lyons, J.G., So, S., Stark, A.P. and K.K. Wojcicki. Comparative evaluation of speech enhancement methods for automatic speech recognition. In Proc. GSERC, Gold Coast, Australia, Dec 2010. * So, S., Wojcicki, K.K. and K. Paliwal, Single-channel speech enhancement using Kalman filter in the modulation domain. In Proc. INTERSPEECH, Makuhari, Japan, pp. 993-996, Sep. 2010. * Paliwal, K.K., Wojcicki, K.K. and B. Schwerin, Single-channel speech enhancement using spectral subtraction in the short-time modulation domain. Speech Communication, Vol. 52(5), pp. 450-475, May 2010. * Paliwal, K.K., Schwerin, B. and K.K. Wojcicki, Modulation domain spectral subtraction for speech enhancement. In Proc. INTERSPEECH, Brighton, United Kingdom, pp. 1327-1330, Sep. 2009. * So, S., Wojcicki, K.K., Lyons, J.G., Stark, A.P. and K.K. Paliwal, Kalman filter with phase spectrum compensation algorithm for speech enhancement. In Proc. ICASSP, Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009. * Paliwal, K.K., Shannon, B.J., Lyons, J.G. and K.K. Wojcicki, Speech-signal-based frequency warping. IEEE Signal Process. Lett., Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 319-322, Apr. 2009. * Paliwal, K.K. and K.K. Wojcicki, Effect of analysis window duration on speech intelligibility. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 15, pp. 785-788, 2008. * Stark, A., Wojcicki, K.K., Lyons, J.G. and K.K. Paliwal, Noise driven short time phase spectrum compensation procedure for speech enhancement, In Proc. INTERSPEECH, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 549-552, Sep. 2008. * Wojcicki, K.K., Milacic, M., Stark, A., Lyons, J.G. and K.K. Paliwal, Exploiting conjugate symmetry of the short-time Fourier spectrum for speech enhancement. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 15, pp. 461-464, 2008. * Wojcicki, K.K. and K.K. Paliwal, On the relative importance of the short-time magnitude and phase spectra towards speaker dependent information, In Proc. ITRW, Aalborg, Denmark, Jun. 2008. * Wojcicki, K.K. and K.K. Paliwal, Effect of the dynamic range of an analysis window on phase-only and magnitude-only speech reconstruction for human speaker verification. In Proc. GSERC, Brisbane, Australia, Oct. 2007. * Wojcicki, K.K., So, S. and K.K. Paliwal, The effect of the additivity assumption on time and frequency domain Wiener filtering for speech enhancement. In Proc. INTERSPEECH, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 798-601, Aug. 2007. * Wojcicki, K.K. and K.K. Paliwal, Importance of the dynamic range of an analysis window function for phase-only and magnitude-only reconstruction of speech. In Proc. ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Vol. IV, pp. 729-733, Apr. 2007. * Wojcicki, K.K., Shannon, B.J. and K.K. Paliwal, Spectral subtraction with variance reduced noise spectrum estimates. In Proc. SST, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 76-81, Dec. 2006. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States Research Associate February 2011 - present Research associate working on speech enhancement, speech intelligibility and cochlear implants. Qibt Navitas, Mount Gravatt, Queensland, Australia Lecturer and Tutor June 2009 - June 2010 Lecturer and tutor for undergraduate courses in mathematics and computer science for international students. Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia Teaching Assistant February 2005 - December 2009 Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in electrical engineering, including: * Signals and Systems * Digital Signal Processing * Statistical Signal Processing * Unix Systems * Introduction to Programming with Matlab Chief Invigilator June 2010 - November 2010 Chief invigilator for Griffith University examinations. Assistant Invigilator February 2005 - November 2010 Assistant invigilator for undergraduate as well as graduate examinations. Hewlett Packard, Milton, Queensland, Australia Server Specialist March 2008 - February 2011 Enterprise data center deployments, relocation and servicing for clients such as V Australia, Cement Australia, Gold Coast City Council, Optus, Queensland Health, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Queensland Ombudsman's Office and Bain Gasteen Lawyers. Field Services Engineer June 2004 - February 2011 Workstation deployments for clients such as AMCOR, Blake Dawson Waldron, Commonwealth Bank, Bank of Queensland, Pindara Private Hospital and others. Fujitsu Australia, Newstead, Queensland, Australia Field Services Engineer April 2002 - December 2003 Point-of-sale deployments for various clients, including Queensland Transport, Coles, Woolworths and Commonwealth Bank business centers. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS * Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2009 - present * Member of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) 2007 - present COMPUTER SKILLS * Programming: Linux shell scripting, Matlab, C, C++, Perl, Python, Qt, SQL, Java, .NET, Scheme * Statistical Packages: SPSS, SHAZAM, Statistics Toolbox (Matlab) * Publishing: LaTeX2e LANGUAGES English, Polish HOBBIES Travel, photography, skiing, fitness REFEREES Prof Kuldip Paliwal Professor Griffith University Nathan, Queensland, Australia phone: available on request e-mail: available on request Dr Stephen So Associate Lecturer Griffith University Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia phone: available on request e-mail: available on request Dr Alok Sharma Senior Lecturer University of the South Pacific Suva, Fiji Islands phone: available on request e-mail: available on request Mr Sean Loye Systems Engineer Hewlett Packard Milton, Queensland, Australia phone: available on request e-mail: available on request