Intercampus Program in Communicative Disorders

Faculty


Kostas Kokkinakis

Assistant Professor
Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences & Disorders
Lawrence Campus

Phone:  785-864-4467
Fax: 785-864-3974

kokkinak@ku.edu

B.S., 2000, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
M.S., 2001, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Ph.D., 2006, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Research Interests

Dr. Kokkinakis' research focuses on signal processing, binaural hearing mechanisms and psychoacoustics. His research interests lie in the development of speech coding strategies and their application to cochlear implants.

Selected Publications

Books

K Kokkinakis and P C Loizou (2010). Advances in Modern Blind Signal Separation Algorithms: Theory and Applications (Morgan & Claypool, San Rafael, CA).

Journals

K Kokkinakis and P C Loizou (2011). The impact of reverberant self-masking and overlap-masking effects on speech intelligibility by cochlear implant listeners, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,130 (3), 1099-1102.

K Kokkinakis, O Hazrati and P C Loizou (2011). A channel-selection criterion for suppressing reverberation in cochlear implants, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129 (5), 3221-3232.

K Kokkinakis and P C Loizou (2010). Multi-microphone adaptive noise reduction strategies for co-ordinated stimulation in bilateral cochlear implants, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127 (5), 3136-3144.

K Kokkinakis and P C Loizou (2009). Selective-tap blind dereverberation for two-microphone enhancement of reverberant speech, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 16, 961-964.

K Kokkinakis and P C Loizou (2008). Using blind source separation techniques to improve speech recognition in bilateral cochlear implant patients, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123 (4) 2379-2390.

K Kokkinakis and A K Nandi (2007). Generalized Gamma density-based score functions for fast and flexible ICA, Signal Processing, 87 (5), 1156-1162.

K Kokkinakis and A K Nandi (2006). Multichannel blind deconvolution for source separation in convolutive mixtures of speech, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, Language  Processing, 14 (1), 200-212.

K Kokkinakis and A K Nandi (2005). Exponent parameter estimation for generalized Gaussian probability density functions with application to speech modeling, Signal Processing, 85 (9), 1852-1858.

Awards and Grants

Principal Investigator (PI: Kostas Kokkinakis), Blind processing for better speech recognition with cochlear implant devices, R03 DC 008882, 6/1/2009 - 6/1/2012, National Institutes of Health (NIDCD), $225,000.

 

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