SHIHAB A. SHAMMA (sas@isr.umd.edu)

Shihab Shamma received his B.S. degree in 1976 from Imperial College, in London, U.K. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1977 and 1980, respectively. Dr. Shamma received his M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature in 1980 from the same institution.

Dr. Shamma has been a member of the University of Maryland faculty since 1984 when he started as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. He became an Associate Professor in 1989. He has been associated with the Systems Research Center since its inception in 1985, and received a joint appointment in 1990. Dr. Shamma also holds a joint appointment with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

Previously, Dr. Shamma worked at the National Institutes of Health and Stanford University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Shamma's research interests include biological aspects of speech analysis and neural signal processing.

PUBLICATIONS MOST RELEVANT TO PROPOSED RESEARCH

1. S.A. Shamma, N. Shen and P. Gopalaswamy, "Stereausis: Binaural Processing without Neural Delays," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 86: 989-1006, 1989.

2. S.A. Shamma, "The Acoustic Features of Speech Phonemes in a Model of the Auditory System: Vowels and Unvoiced Fricatives," J. of Phonetics ,16, 1988, pp. 77-91.

3. S.A. Shamma, "Hearing as Seeing: The Role of Space and Time in Auditory Processing," Proceedings of the Symposium on The Analysis and Modelling of Neural Systems, Berkeley, 1990.

4. S.A. Shamma and X. Yang, "Identification of Synaptic Connectivities in Neural Networks," Biophys. Journal, 1990.

5. S.A. Shamma, Fleshman, Wiser and Vergnel, "Organization of Response Area in Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex," J. of Neurophy, Feb. 1993.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH

1. S.A. Shamma, X. Yang and K. Wang, "Auditory Representation of Acoustic Spectrum," IEEE Info. Theory, March 1992.