I am a graduate student working in acoustics and electrical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. My doctoral research focuses on speaker and microphone array processing for immersive telecollaboration. My work is done under the direction of James West and funded by a NSF grant on Immersive Acoustics for Multi-channel Multi-party Telecollaboration in conjunction with Fred Juang’s Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My research interests include microphone and loudspeaker arrays, MEMS devices, acoustic signal processing (MIMO, multiresolution, and adaptive algorithms), noise reduction, beamforming, dereverberation, source separation and localization, and echo cancellation.
Ph.D. (Electrical Eng.) Johns Hopkins University. Expected 2010.
M.S.E. (Electrical Eng.) Johns Hopkins University. Completed 2006 (GPA 3.8).
Thesis: Polarization Characteristics of Fluorescence and Direct Reflection from Biological Aerosols [pdf]
B.S. (Electrical Eng. minor Computer Sci.) Johns Hopkins University. Completed 2005 (GPA 3.6).
520.680 Speech and Auditory Processing by Humans and Machines (Hynek Hermansky)
550.661 Foundations of Optimization (Shih-Ping Han)
520.445 Introduction to Speech and Audio Processing (Mounya Elhilali)
550.681 Numerical Analysis (Shih-Ping Han)
520.651 Random Signal Analysis (Sanjeev Khudanpur)
550.692 Matrix Analysis (Donniell Fishkind)
171.621 Condensed Matter Physics (Chai-Ling Chien)
520.485 Advanced Semiconductor Physics (Jacob Khurgin)
520.492 Mixed Signal VLSI Systems (Andreas Andreou)
520.604 Computational Electromagnetics (Richard Joseph, Prof. Michael Thomas)
530.657 Topics in Acoustics (Ilene Busch-Vishniac)
520.447 Information Theory (Frederick Jelinek)
520.619 Optical Communications (Frederick Davidson)
520.773 Advanced Topics in Microfabrication (Andreas Andreou)
530.457 Introduction to Acoustics (Ilene Busch-Vishniac)
530.487 Introduction to MEMS (William Sharpe)
520.435 Digital Signal Processing (John Goutsias)
Graduate Research Assistant. JHU Acoustics Lab. 2006-present.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. The History of Musical Instruments. 2010.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. The History of Musical Instruments. 2007.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Design and Analysis of Dynamical Systems. 2007.
Graduate Research Assistant. JHU APL Optoelectronics Group. 2005-2006.
Avaya Labs Research Intern. 2005.
Joshua Atkins. “Optimal Loudspeaker Placement for Sound Field Reconstruction in Geometrically Constrained Environments.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. April 2010.
Joshua Atkins. “Optimal Spatial Sampling for Spherical Loudspeaker Arrays.” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. March 2010.
Joshua Atkins. “Binaural Reproduction of Spherical Microphone Array Signals.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Volume 126. Nov 2009.
Joshua Atkins, James E. West. “Surround Sound Echo Cancellation in the Spherical Harmonic Domain.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Volume 123. July 2008.
Joshua Atkins, James E. West. “Spatial Audio Reproduction over Distributed Mode Loudspeakers.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Volume 123. July 2008.
Joshua Atkins, James E. West. “Multichannel Acoustic Signal Processing in the Spherical Harmonic Domain.” NSBP/NSHP. February 2008.
Joshua D. Atkins, Michael E. Thomas, Richard I. Joseph. “Spectrally resolved fluorescence cross sections of BG and BT with a 266-nm pump wavelength.” Proceedings of SPIE. Volume 6554. May 2007.[pdf]
Joshua D. Atkins, Michael J. Sammon, Lynne S. Brotman. “The performance of a newly developed mobile hands-free context-aware communications system in a hospital environment.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Volume 119 Issue 5. June 2006.[pdf]
Joshua D. Atkins. “Spectrally resolved fluorescence cross sections of BG and BT with a 266-nm pump wavelength.” LEOS Graduate Student Poster Competition. Laurel, MD. April 2007.
