NAME: Allen, Jont Brandon; EDUCATION/TRAINING INSTITUTION AND LOCATION University of Illinois, Urbana, IL The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA PRESENT POSITION & TITLE: Tenured Full Professor, Elect. and Comp. Eng. DEGREE: YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY B.S. 1966 Electrical Engineering M.S. 1968 Electrical Engineering Ph.D. 1970 Electrical Engineering I have written a book: "An Introduction to Mathematical Physics and its History." It is written for undergraduate engineering students, and taught at least once per year. This is a topic I have been teaching for over 10 years. The book is scheduled for publication by Springer-Nature on Sept 2, 2020. A. Summary: I developed several complex and innovative research programs, first at Bell Labs in 1995 (cochlear modeling), followed by the development of the Bell Labs multiband compression hearing aid (1985-88) aka Wide dynamic range compression (Now labeled as GN-ReSound), followed by phone perception research at UIUC in 2003 with my group of highly productive students. This research has provided many deep insights into difficult challenging problems of phone (phoneme) perception. Specifically my students have identified the basic features of many plosive and fricative speech sounds. This has allowed them to manipulate the perception of speech with surgical precision (Li et al), and spent many years working on cochlear modeling, auditory neurophysiology, speech perception, speech processing, psychophysics, audiology as well as musical, speech and middle ear acoustics, acoustic impedance and reflectance, analog and digital signal processing, and clinical audiology. The above work is documented in the publications from 1974-2019. (http://auditorymodels.org/index.php/Main/Publications). B. Personal Statement: During my 32 year AT&T Bell Labs career where I worked in the Acoustics Research Dept., specializing in cochlear modeling, auditory and cochlear speech processing, and speech and phone perception. While at AT&T I wrote more than 50 sole-authored journal articles on hearing, cochlear modeling, signal processing, room acoustics, and speech perception. In 1982-1987 I was fortunate to have had primary responsibility with the development of the first commercial multiband wideband dynamic range compression (WDRC) hearing aid, later to be sold as the now well known “ReSound hearing aid” (Allen, Jont B, (2003). “Amplitude compression in hearing aids.”) During this 5 years I worked closely with clinical audiologists and speech and hearing scientists with several hearing-aid manufactures (Starkey, Phonak, Etymotic), who subsequently funded my work. During this period I wrote the first DSP code and developed the first fitting system, based on loudness in half-octave bands (LGOB), which was used by ReSound as their commercial fitting system. I was also responsible for the first analog compression circuits used in the primary product, that was produced by AT&T for ReSound, at the Allentown PA silicon foundry. Starting in 1986, I developed one of the first systems for non-evasively evaluating cochlear hearing using distortion produce otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs), known as the (CubeDis) measurement system, which for several years (1988-1995) was commercially sold by Etymotic research (Elk Grove Village, IL), and after that by Mimosa Acoustics (Champaign IL), for which I serve as the Chief Technology Officer. A major research interest is the diagnosis of middle ear disorders, based on acoustic impedance measurements in the ear canal. My research in this has been cited hundreds of times (eg., Voss and Allen (1994; Allen (1986))) From 1998-2003, while at AT&T Labs, a spin off from Bell Labs, I worked on Loudness and consonant (speech) perception. In Aug. 2003 I join the ECE faculty as Tenured faculty, University of IL, Urbana IL, where I teach and work with students on noninvasive objective diagnostic testing of cochlear and middle ear function, based on acoustic reflectance (aka impedance) methods of the middle ear, auditory psychophysics, speech processing for hearing aid applications (noise reduction and multiband compression), speech and music coding (bit-rate reduction) and speech perception (models of loudness and masking) and hearing aid transducer modeling. –I most actively work on the theory and practice of human speech (phone) recognition, for both normal and hearing impaired hearing, with the goals of improving hearing aid signal processing as well as automatic speech recognition robustness in the presences of noise and filtering distortions. From 2003-present, I had a number of students active in various projects on speech perception, middle ear models and hearing aid signal processing (http://auditorymodels.org/index.php/Main/ResearchGroup). –From 2004-2012 I and my students collected several large databases of speech perception in noise, by normal and impaired human subjects. This work has resulting in many publications on human speech (phone) perception. –I have more than 20 US patents on hearing aids, signal processing and middle ear measurement diagnostics. –From 2005-2019 I investigated reading disabilities in 8-10 year old children, in collaboration with Prof. Cynthia Johnson of the UIUC Speech and Hearing Department with the help of many students.