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John N. Gowdy

John GowdyProfessor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ph.D., 1971 - University of Missouri, Columbia
Electrical Engineering
M.S., 1968 - University of Missouri, Columbia
Electrical Engineering
B.S., 1967 - M.I.T.
Electrical Engineering

Contact Information
Office: 211 Riggs Hall
Office Phone: 864.656.5249
Fax: 864.656.5910
Email: jgowdy@clemson.edu

Research 
Digital Signal Processing with Emphasis on Speech Processing Applications
Dr. Gowdy is the founder and director of the Speech and Audio Processing Laboratory at Clemson.  He and his students have worked on numerous projects in the area of speech processing. They include projects on speech recognition, audio-visual speech recognition, speaker recognition, speech coding, speech synthesis, and analysis of foreign language sounds.  The CUAVE audio-visual speech recognition database developed in our laboratory is used worldwide by researchers in this field.
Dr. Gowdy's research has also included projects in detecting artifacts in rotating objects and real-time quality analysis of yarn evenness and textile dying. 
Dr. Gowdy served as ECE Department Chair from 1996 to 2007.  He previously served over ten years as Graduate Program Coordinator for the ECE Department.  He currently serves as Undergraduate Program Coordinator and Assessment Coordinator for the ECE Department.

Honors and Awards
McQueen Quattlebaum Award, College of Engineering, Clemson University (1976).
Outstanding Teaching Award, NCR, (1991).
Outstanding Teaching Award, AT&T, (1994).
IEEE Millennium Medal, (2000)

Recent Journal Publications 
Tufekci, Z., Gowdy, J. N., Gurbuz, S., and Patterson E., "Applied Mel-Frequency Discrete Wavelet Coefficients and Parallel Model Compensation for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition," Speech Communication, vol. 48, issue 10, pp. 1294-1307,  (2006).

Patterson, E. K., Gurbuz, S., Tufekci, Z., and Gowdy, J. N., “Moving-Talker, Speaker-Independent Feature Study and Baseline Results Using the CUAVE Multimodal Speech Corpus,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2002, no. 11, pp. 1189-1201. (2002).

Recent Conference Publications 
Kumaran, R., Gowdy, J. N., and Narayanan, K., "Language Modeling Using Independent Component Analysis for Automatic Speech Recognition, "Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.

Narayanan, K, Gowdy, J. N., and Kumaran, R., Gowdy, J. N., "Myoelectric Signals for Multimodal Speech Recognition," Proceeding of INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005.