JOHN G. HARRIS
Professor

 

Education:

PhD, EE, California Institute of Technology, 1991
MS, EE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986
BSEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983

Contact Information:

Email: harris@cnel.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-2652
Office: 453 New Engineering Building
Homepage:  www.cnel.ufl.edu/analog/harris.html

Program Affiliation:

Area:  Signals & Systems
Lab:   Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory

Fields of Interest:

• Analog and digital signal processing, VLSI, adaptive and neural systems

Employment:

1997 - Associate Professor, Electrical & Comptuer Engineering, University of Florida
1993 - Assistant Professor, Electrical & Comptuer Engineering, University of Florida

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2006
M.D. Skowronski, J.G. Harris, D.E. Marossero, R.K. Edwards, and T.Y. Euliano. "Prediction of intrauterine pressure from electrohysterography using optimal linear filtering." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, (10):1983–1989, Oct 2006.

H.S. Narula and J.G. Harris. "A time-based VLSI potentiostat for ion current measurements." IEEE Sensors Journal, (2):239–247, April 2006.

M.D. Skowronski, J.G. Harris, D.E. Marossero, R.K. Edwards, and T. Euliano. "Prediction of intrauterine pressure from electrohysterography using optimal linear filtering." IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., (10):1983–1989, Oct 2006.

M.D. Skowronski and J.G. Harris. "Applied principles of clear and Lombard speech for intelligibility enhancement in noisy environments." Speech Communication, 48(5):549–558, May 2006.

M.D. Skowronski and J.G. Harris. "Acoustic microchiroptera detection and classification using machine learning: lessons learned from automatic speech recognition." J. Acoustical Society of America, 119(3):1817–1833, March 2006.

2005
L. Gu, J.G. Harris, R. Shrivastav, and C. Sapienza. "Disordered speech assessment using automatic methods based on quantitative measures." EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2005(9):1400–1409, 2005.

Contracts and Grants:

• National Institute of Health, "An ulta-low power wireless neural recording implant based on a novel pulse representation"
• National Science Foundation, "A Spike-based Computer Architecture for Sensory Processing"
• Motorola, "Improved Percepetual Loudness and Intelligibility for Speaker Phone Systems"

Honors and Awards:

2002-2005 - Member, Motorola Visionary Board
1998 - UF Teaching Improvement Program (TIP) Award
1995 - National Science Foundation Career Award

Patents:

• 5,062,000 - The Resistive Fuse, with C. Koch, October 1991
• 5,598,488 - Object Movement Estimator Using One-Dimensional Optical Flow, with T. Poggio and N. Ancona, January 1997
• 5,717,792 - Object Movement Estimator Using One-Dimensional Optical Flow, with T. Poggio and N. Ancona, February 1998.
• 5,832,117 - Nonlinear Resistive Network for Isolating Outliers in Sensor Images, with B. Mathur and S. C. Liu, November 1998
• 6,420,927 - Filter and hold circuit utilizing a charge/discharge circuit, with V. Tavares, J. Principe and P. Alevero, July 16, 2002
• 6,642,503 - Time domain sensing technique and system architecture for image sensor, granted with R. Kummaraguntla and J. Chen,
• 6,660,989 - CMOS imager having asynchronous pixel read out in order of pixel illumination, with X. Guo and J. Chen
• Application #20030076432 - "System and method to faciliate time domain sampling for solid state imager," with Q. Luo, J. Chen, S. Clynes, and M. Erwin
• Application #20030081134 - " Adaptive relative and absolute address coding CMOS imager technique and system architecture,"
  with Q. Luo, J. Chen, S. Clynes, and M. Erwin
• Application #20030015647 - "Time-based CMOS imager having asynchronous readout," with X. Guo and J. Chen.
• Application #20040024591 - "Method and apparatus for enhancing loudness of an audio signal," with M. Boillot, T. Reinke, Z. Merchant, and J. Borras.
• Application #20040267540 - "Synchronization and overlap method and system for single buffer speech compression and expansion," with M. Boillot and T. Reinke.
• Application #20040267540 - "Psychoacoustic method and system to impose a preferred talking rate through auditory feedback rate adjustment," with M. Boillot and T. Reinke.
• Application #60/663,464 - "Low power, wavelet-based spike detector," with C. Rogers and J.C. Principe.
• Application #11/104,141 - "Time-mode analog computation circuits and methods," with V. Ravinuthula and J.Fortes.
• Application #10/844,950 - "Amplifier with pulse coded output and remote signal reconstruction from the pulse output," with D. Chen, D. Wei and J.C. Principe.