Management Team:

Joel M. MacAuslan
President & Chief Science Officer

Joel has served as a Scientist, Technical Consultant, and Program manager on both government and commercial contracts.  His work includes:

• Mathematical and statistical analysis and customer presentations for tracking, signal, and imaging programs.
• Introduced statistical analysis for software cost and quality, managed several small projects in high performance image and signal processing, introduced the use of static analyzers, software project-control, and object-oriented design to software-engineering and image-processing/pattern-recognition groups.
• Logic analysis for safety certification of customer's hardware-logic and software-driven equipment.
• Software design, customer presentations, transportable programming implementation for a specialized image-processing/printing application for a US Government customer; analysis of image defects, design and implementation of suitable Weiner and non-linear filters for automatic reduction of image defects.
• Designed, tested, and implemented image-processing algorithms for rapid multi-national coin/toll-token recognition.
• Designed, tested, implemented, and evaluated image-processing libraries for high-performance computer, a "massively parallel" device for single-instruction/multiple-data ("SIMD") computing.
• Mathematical and statistical analysis, algorithmic design for representation and computerized recognition of natural and spoken sounds (on NIDCD Phase‑II SBIR grant, “Environmental Sound Recognition”).  P.I. for SBIR grant, "Software for Characterizing Laryngeal Dynamics" (#1R43-DC02343, Phase I).
• Project management, proposal development, personnel recruiting, strategic planning for projects analyzing complex (highly connected/high-feedback) systems.

Recent Publications  

van Horne, C., K.Chenausky, C. Massari, and J.MacAuslan.  2007.  “Acoustic Speech Analysis in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease, Pre- and Post- DBS Therapy”, J. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, submitted.

van Horne, C., K.Chenausky, C. Massari, and J.MacAuslan.  2007.  “Acoustic Speech Analysis in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease, Pre- and Post- DBS Therapy”, J. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, submitted.

Fell, H.J., J.MacAuslan, C. J. Cress, A. Weber, A. Wolford, A. Pribnow, B. Norland, T. Salvo, J. Gong, K. Dai.  2007. “Changes in Vocalizations of Infants with Severe Impairments Using visiBabble”, ASHA Abstracts.

Boyce, S., J.MacAuslan, A. Bradlow, and R. Smiljanic.  2007. “Automatic Detection of Differences Between Clear & Conversational Speech”, ASHA Abstracts.

Boyce, S., C. Turpin, F. Al-Fwaress, and J.MacAuslan.  2007. “The Relationship of Clear Speaking Style & Breath Support”, ASHA Abstracts.

Boyce, S., J. MacAuslan, A. Bradlow, and R. Smiljanic.  2008.  "Landmark-based Analysis of Sleep Deprived Speech", Proc. Acoustics 2008, Paris.  July.

Boyce, S., J. MacAuslan, W. Carr, D. Picchioni, A. Braun, and T. Balkin.  2008.  "Automatic Detection of Changes in Speech Clarity during Sleep Deprivation", Proc. SLEEP, Baltimore .  June.

Patents