Graduate Student Pruthi Wins Best Paper Award at ASA Meeting

Graduate student Tarun Pruthi won the Best Student Paper Award at this year's meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held in Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 17-21, 2005. Tarun’s research topic was the automatic detection of vowel nasalization using knowledge-based acoustic parameters, and the title of his award-winning paper was “Simulating and understanding the effects of velar coupling area on nasalized vowel spectra.”

Tarun is advised by Associate Professor Carol Espy-Wilson (ECE/ISR).

Published November 16, 2005