Robert M. Nickel, Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837 Phone: (570) 577-3854 Fax: (570) 577-1449 robert.nickel@bucknell.edu

Education Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2001. M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1997. Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany, 1995. Research Interests Speech Signal Processing and Speech Modelling. Speech Coding, Synthesis, and Enhancement. Automatic Speech/Speaker/Language Recognition. Detection, Estimation, and Classification Theory. General Signal and Systems Theory and Time-Frequency Analysis. Selected Publications "Speech Enhancement with Inventory Style Speech Resynthesis," X. Xiao, R. M. Nickel, to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (accepted for publication on 8/12/2009, the paper is available via IEEE Xplore Early Access). "Fast Algorithms for Inventory Based Speech Enhancement," R. M. Nickel, T. Sugimoto, X. Xiao, in Signal Processing, Sebastian Miron (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-7619-91-6, INTECH, pp. 415-427, 2010. "Inventory Based Speech Enhancement for Speaker Dedicated Speech Communication Systems," X. Xiao, P. Lee, R. M. Nickel, Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009, pp. 3877-3880. "Automatic Speech Character Identification," R. M. Nickel, A Tutorial Article for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 8-29, 2006.

Handouts and Class Material H01.IntroMATLAB.pdf - An Introduction to MATLAB (15 pages). H02.CmplxNum.pdf - A Complex Numbers Review (6 pages). H03.ContSigSys.pdf - Continuous-Time Signals and Systems Summary (10 pages). H04.DiscrSigSys.pdf - Discrete-Time Signals and Systems Summary (10 pages). H05.SignalTheory.pdf - Signal Sampling and Reconstruction (10 pages).