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  • 1985 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to speech analysis and synthesis systems

Overview

Jont B. Allen is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Allen's research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on engineering and neuroscience. Their work includes significant contributions within biomedical engineering and cognitive neuroscience, with additional engagement in atomic and molecular physics and optics, mechanics of materials, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including hearing loss and rehabilitation, microfluidic and capillary electrophoresis applications, mechanical and optical resonators, microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, ultrasonics and acoustic wave propagation, human auditory perception and evaluation, and iterative methods for nonlinear equations.

Allen has published several papers in reputable venues. Recent works include:

  • "Chaotic Convergence of Newton's Method," 2024, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • "My 50 years of cochlear modeling," 2024, AIP conference proceedings
  • "Estimating human neural tuning curves at low-level sound from human psychophysical masking data and the cochlea-frequency maps," 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "On causality and aural impulse responses synthesized using the inverse discrete Fourier transform," 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Understanding Interdependencies between Mechanical Velocity and Electrical Voltage in Electromagnetic Micromixers," 2020, Micromachines

Frequent co-authors include Noori Kim, Wei Xuan Chan, Sum Huan Ng, Yong-Jin Yoon, and Kren Rahbek Nørgaard. Allen has contributed to publications primarily in:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Micromachines
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • AIP conference proceedings

In 1985, Allen was recognized as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to speech analysis and synthesis systems.

Best Publications

  • Image method for efficiently simulating small‐room acoustics

    Jont B. Allen;David A. Berkley

  • Short term spectral analysis, synthesis, and modification by discrete Fourier transform

    J. Allen

  • A unified approach to short-time Fourier analysis and synthesis

    J.B. Allen;L.R. Rabiner

  • Invertibility of a room impulse response

    Stephen T. Neely;Jont B. Allen

  • How do humans process and recognize speech

    J.B. Allen

  • Multimicrophone signal‐processing technique to remove room reverberation from speech signals

    Jont Allen;D. A. Berkley;J. Blauert;J. Blauert

  • Cochlear micromechanics--a physical model of transduction.

    J. B. Allen

  • Measurement of acoustic impedance and reflectance in the human ear canal

    Susan E. Voss;Jont B. Allen

  • Loudness growth in 1/2-octave bands (LGOB)--a procedure for the assessment of loudness.

    Jont B. Allen;J. L. Hall;P. S. Jeng

  • Consonant and vowel confusions in speech-weighted noise.

    Sandeep A. Phatak;Jont B. Allen

  • Cochlear modeling

    J. Allen

  • Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms

    J. B. Allen;J. L. Hall;A. E. Hubbard;S. T. Neely

  • Two‐dimensional cochlear fluid model: New results

    J. B. Allen

  • MEASUREMENTS AND MODEL OF THE CAT MIDDLE EAR : EVIDENCE OF TYMPANIC MEMBRANE ACOUSTIC DELAY

    Sunil Puria;Jont B. Allen

  • Evaluation of human middle ear function via an acoustic power assessment.

    Jont B. Allen;Patricia S. Jeng;Harry Levitt

  • Consonant confusions in white noise.

    Sandeep A. Phatak;Andrew Lovitt;Jont B. Allen

  • A second cochlear-frequency map that correlates distortion product and neural tuning measurements.

    J. B. Allen;P. F. Fahey

  • Micromechanical Models of the Cochlea

    Jont B. Allen;Stephen T. Neely

  • Cochlear macromechanics: Time domain solutions

    J. B. Allen;M. M. Sondhi

  • Using acoustic distortion products to measure the cochlear amplifier gain on the basilar membrane

    Jont Allen;P. F. Fahey

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence R. Rabiner
Lawrence R. Rabiner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sunil Puria
Sunil Puria Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Lawrence K. Saul
Lawrence K. Saul University of California, San Diego
Christopher A. Shera
Christopher A. Shera University of Southern California
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen A. Boppart
Stephen A. Boppart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Torsten Dau
Torsten Dau Technical University of Denmark
Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin
Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin Loma Linda University
Stephen McAdams
Stephen McAdams McGill University

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