The research in audio signal processing has been dominated by speech research, but most of the sounds in our reallife environments are actually non-speech events such as cars passing by, wind, warning beeps, and animal sounds. These acoustic events contain much information about the environment and physical events that take place in it, enabling novel application areas such as safety, health mo...

Over the past 40 years there have been significant improvements in weather forecasting. These improvements are primarily due to (1) improved model physics and increased numerical grid resolution made possible by ever-increasing computational power, and (2) improved model initialization made possible by the use of satellite-derived remotely sensed data. In spite of these improvements, however, w...

Supplemental breeding is an intensive population management strategy wherein adults are captured from nature and spawned in controlled settings, and the resulting offspring are later released into the wild. To be effective, supplemental breeding programs require crossing strategies that maximize offspring production while maintaining genetic diversity within each supplemental year class. We use...