KEVIN D. DONOHUE, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky

Professional Preparation:

Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, Mathematics, B.A., April 1981

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Electrical Engineering, B.S., May 1984

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Electrical Engineering, M.S., May 1985

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., December 1987

Appointments:

2006-Present Databeam Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

2007 Interim Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

2000-2005 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

1997 to 2000 Interim Department Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

1994 to 1997 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

1994 to 2006 Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

1991 to 1994 Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

1988 to 1991 Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1988 to 1988 Senior Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

1985 to 1986 Instructor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

1985 to 1985 Engineer, Zenith Electronics Corporation, Glenview, Illinois

Related Publications:

1.  “Stability Analysis for the Generalized Sidelobe Canceller,” J. P. Townsend and K.D. Donohue, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 603-606, June 2010.

  1. “A Comparative Study of Perceptional Quality between Wavefield Synthesis And Multipole–Matched Rendering For Spatial Audio,” J. Hannemann, C.A. Leedy, K.D. Donohue, S. Spors, and A. Raake, Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 397- 400, April 2008.
  2. “Sound Source Detection Threshold Estimation using Negative Coherent Power,” K.D. Donohue, K.S. McReynolds, A. Ramamurthy, Proceeding of the IEEE, Southeastcon 2008, pp. 575-580, April 2008.
  3. “Hierarchical Image Segmentation by Structural Content,” N. A. Rawashdeh, S.T. Love, and K.D. Donohue, Journal of Software, Vol. 3, no 2, pp 41-51, Feb. 2008.
  4. “Performance for Phase Transform for Detecting Sound Sources in Reverberant and Noisy Environments,” K.D. Donohue, J. Hannemann, and H.G. Dietz, Signal Processing, Vol. 87, no. 7, pp. 1677-1691, July 2007.
  5. "A Comparative Study of Transforms for Use in Digital Audio Data Compression," by B.E. Rulon, M.F. Shaw, and K.D. Donohue, Journal of Acoustic Society of America, Vol. 108(1), pp. 449452, July 2000.

Other Publications:

1.  Book Chapter (22): “Split-Spectrum Processing and Automatic Flaw Detection,” by K.D. Donohue in Ultrasonic and Advanced Methods for Nondestructive Testing and Material Characterization, Edited by C.H. Chen, pp. 517-546, World Scientific Publishing, Hackensack, NJ, May 2007

2.  “Detection of breast lesion regions in ultrasound images using wavelets and order statistics,” K.V. Mogatadakala, K.D. Donohue, C.W. Piccoli, and F. Forsberg, Medical Physics, 23, (4), pp. 840-849, Apr. 2006.

3.  “ROC Analysis Of Classifiers Based On Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization Features,” S. Gefen, O.J. Tretiak, , C.W. Piccoli, K.D. Donohue, A.P. Petropulu, P.M. Shankar, V.A. Dumane, L. Huang, M.A. Kutay, V. Genis, F. Forsberg, J.M. Reid, B.B. Goldberg, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 170-177, Feb. 2003.

4.  “Tissue Classification with Generalized Spectrum Parameters,” K.D. Donohue, L. Huang, T. Burks, F. Forsberg, and C.W. Piccoli, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 27, No. 11, pp. 1505-1514, 2001.

5.  "Estimating Mean Scatterer Spacing with Frequency-Smoothed Spectral Autocorrelation Function," T. Varghese, and K.D. Donohue, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonic, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 451-463, May 1995.

Synergistic Activities:

1.  As Director of Undergraduate studies and Department Chair from 1995 to 2004, I led the department in a paradigm shift from a topic and lecture-based curriculum to a student outcome-based curriculum, and developed feedback and improvement processes. This resulted in 2 successful accreditations reviews on the ABET 2000 criteria.

2.  As a member of the cognitive science interdisciplinary group at the University of Kentucky, I regularly give lectures on the cognitive components of audio and video processing of the human mind and focus on understanding and modeling these processes so they can be applied in engineering analysis and design.

3.  As a participant in the REU program for the last 2 years, I have developed research projects for 4 students in underrepresented groups to work or 10 weeks in my laboratory and present their results both in oral and written form.

4.  I have developed special undergraduate courses that focus on implementing signal and information processing concepts with modern software. One is a lecture and laboratory course where students write program to implement solve problems every week in areas of signal processing, communication, and control other is a senior level lecture course in audio signals and systems that has a lecture component and a studio component. (See EE422 and EE513 at http://www.engr.uky.edu/~donohue/courses.html )

5.  I have been a Co-PI and currently the PI on an NSF-EPSCoRE infrastructure grant focused on developing sensor systems and networks for scene/situation understanding and characterization. Currently we are developing a multimodal multiple sensor testbed for developing research in signal processing, sensor networks, and distributed computing with faculty computer science, electrical and computer engineering, psychology, and education.

Collaborators:

Projects, Papers, Proposals: R. Alloo (Toyota, Georgetown, KY), Dr. D. Boehler (Airway Dynamics LLC, Midway, KY), George Chiu (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), Dr. S. Cheung (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. F. Cohen, (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA), Dr. Luke Cui (Lexmark International Inc., Lexington, KY), M. Doyle (Lexmark International Inc., Lexington, KY), J.M. Evans (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. F. Forsberg (Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA), Dr. L. Gottlob (Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. B. Goldburg M.D. (Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA), Dr. J. Goldsmith (Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. LG. Hassebrook (at University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), D. Hertel (Polaroid Corporation, Waltham, MA), Dr. C. Jaynes (Mersive, Inc. Lexington, KY) Dr. C.F. Knapp (Biomedical, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), W. Kress, (Toshiba America, Irvine, CA, USA), K. Johnson (ImageXpert Inc., 486 Amherst Street, Nashua, NH), Dr. Lexun Huang (Intel, Inc., Shanghai, China), Dr. D.L. Lau (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Y. S. Ng, (NexPress Solutions L.L.C., Rochester, NY), Dr. Bruce O’Hara (Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. A. Patwardhan (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. A.P. Petropulu (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA), Dr. C. Piccolli M.D. (Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia), A. Ramamurthy (Mathworks, Inc, Natick, MA) Dr. D.C Randall (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. R. Rasmussen (Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY), Dr. J.M. Reid (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA), Dr. P.M Shankar (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA), Shantilal (Cummins Engine, Columbus, IN), Dr. K. Siato (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. W. Seals (Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), Dr. O.J. Tretiak (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA), Dr. R. Yang (Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), E. Zeise (NexPress Solutions LLC, Rochester, NY), R.E. Zeman (Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY), S. Zoltner (Xerox Corp., Wilsonville, OR) Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Jafar Saniie (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL) Ph.D. Advisees: Dr. Tomy Varghese (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), Dr. Lexun Huang (Intel, Shanghai, China ), Dr. Nathir Rawashdeh (Arrowtech, Lexington KY)

Total number of graduate students advised: 3 PhD students, 32 MS students