Assistant Electrical Engineering

Curriculum VitaeNorbert KopcoObjective:

Research and teaching position in the fields of auditory perception and cognition, speech, language, or pattern recognition in or near the Slovak/Czech republics or Germany.Contact:

Cognitive & Neural Systems Department,

677 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02215

Tel: 617-***-**** Fax: 617-***-****

Email: *****@**.***

Web page: http://cns.bu.edu/~kopcoCitizenship:

Slovak RepublicCurrent status:

Ph.D. student at the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University. Dissertation title: Spatial hearing, auditory sensitivity, and pattern recognition in noisy environments. Advisor: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham. Expected graduation: June 2002Education:

Ing. (M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering - Technická Univerzita Kosice, Slovakia, 1996. Diploma Work: "Application of Fuzzy ARTMAP neural network for classification of multispectral image data." Advisor: Doc. Ing. Peter Sincák, CSc.Skills: Experimental work in auditory and speech perception, cognitive and perceptual modeling.

Theoretical and experimental work in classification and pattern recognition.

Teaching: Ability to teach a variety of classes at graduate and undergraduate level, based on research experience and coursework experience.

Graduate level:

Auditory perception, physiology and psychophysics, speech and language.

Neural network modeling and algorithms

Pattern recognition methods and systems

Artificial Intelligence: methods, languages, theory

Undergraduate level:

Mathematics: Linear algebra, differential equations

Engineering: Linear systems theory

Psychology: Auditory psychophysics, perceptual psychology, attention, memory.

Programming: Matlab, C/C++, Prolog, Lisp

Awards and honors:

Fulbright scholarship at Boston University, 1997/1998

Presidential University Graduate Fellowship, Boston University, 1997

Award for graduating among the top 1% of the class of 1996 at TU KosiceInternational and work experience:

Student internship at Universität Kaiserslautern and TechMath GmbH, Germany, 1996

Software development - ALES, Kosice, Slovakia. 1995-96.

Translating/Interpreting (English) for EMG, Kosice, Slovakia, 1996-97.

Teaching Assistant: Dept of Cybernetics & AI, Technická Univerzita Kosice, 1997

Teaching Assistant: Cognitive and Neural Systems Dept., Boston University, 1999Selected publications:Shinn-Cunningham, B.G., Santarelli S.G., and Kopco, N. (2000) "Tori of confusion: Binaural localization cues for sources within reach of a listener," J Acouost Soc Am, 107(3): pp. 1627-1636

Shinn-Cunningham B.G., Schickler J, Kopco N, Litovsky R. (2001) "Spatial unmasking of nearby speech sources in a simulated anechoic environment," J Acoust Soc Am, 110(2): pp. 1118-1129.

Kopco, N., Carpenter, G.A. (2000) "Graded Signal Functions for ARTMAP Neural Networks," In: Sincák, P. et al. (Ed.): The State of the Art in Computational Intelligence. Heidelberg; New York: Physica-Verlag.

Veregin, H., Sincák, P, and Kopco, N. (2000) "Enhancement of Classification Accuracy Using Conflation Procedures," Geocarto International, 15(1): pp. 11-18

Publications in preparation:Kopco, N. and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G."Spatial unmasking of nearby pure-tone sources," J Acouost Soc Am.

Kopco, N. and Shinn-Cunningham

B.G.,"Localization in reverberant rooms: effect of experience and nearby walls," J Acoust Soc Am.

Kopco, N., Carpenter, G.A. "Methods of online node elimination and post-training pruning for memory-based learning systems," Journal of Machine Learning Research.

Selected conference presentations:Kopco, N., Brown, T., and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2001) "Effect of listener location on localization cues and localization performance in a reverberant room," 24-th Association for Research in Otolaryngology meeting, St. Petersburg Beach, FL

Kopco, N., Ler, A., and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2001) "Effect of auditory cuing on azimuthal localization accuracy," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2377

Kopco, N., and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2000) "Spatial unmasking of nearby pure-tone sources in a simulated anechoic environment," J Acoust Soc Am, 107(5), p. 2849

Schickler, J., Kopco, N., Shinn-Cunningham, B.G., and Litovsky R.Y. (2000) "Spatial Unmasking for nearby speech sources in a simulated anechoic environment.", J Acoust Soc Am, 107(5), p. 2849

Santarelli, S.G., Kopco, N., and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2000) "Distance judgments of nearby sources in a reverberant room: Effects of stimulus envelope," J Acoust Soc Am, 107(5), p. 2822

Shinn-Cunningham, B.G., Santarelli S., and Kopco, N. (2000) "Distance perception of nearby sources in reverberant and anechoic listening conditions: Binaural versus monaural cues," 23-rd Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter meeting, St. Petersburg Beach, FL

Several presentations and articles on neural networks and image classification.

Scientific conference committee membership:

1st and 2nd Euro-International Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Kosice, Slovakia, 2000 and 2002Languages:

Slovak/Czech (native), English (fluent), German (competent)Professional Membership:

Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Acoustical Society of America, International Neural Network SocietyAd hoc reviewer of journal submissions:

Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

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