PATRICK M. ZUREK         President, Sensimetrics Corporation               

Education

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN              B.S.       1971                         Psychology

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ                Ph.D.    1976                         Experimental Psychology

Positions and Honors

1976‑81           Research Associate, Central Institute for the Deaf, and Assistant Professor, Department of  Speech and Hearing, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

1981‑82           Visiting Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1982‑89           Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T.

1989‑              Principal Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T. (part-time 1993-1999)

1993‑98           Principal Research Scientist, Sensimetrics Corporation (part-time).

1999-               President, Sensimetrics Corporation.

Member of the Audio Engineering Society, the American Academy of Audiology, the National Hearing Conservation Association, and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

Selected Publications

Zurek, P.M. and Sachs, R.M. (1979). "Combination tones at frequencies greater than the primary tones,''

        Science 205, 600‑602.

Zurek, P.M. (1979). "Measurements of binaural echo suppression,'' JASA 66, 1750‑1757.

Zurek, P.M. (1980). "The precedence effect and its possible role in the avoidance of interaural ambiguities,''

        JASA 67, 952‑964.

Zurek, P.M. and Formby, C. (1981). "Frequency‑discrimination ability of hearing‑impaired listeners,'' JSHR 24,

        108‑112.

Zurek, P.M. (1981). "Spontaneous narrowband acoustic signals emitted by human ears,'' JASA 69, 514‑523.

Zurek, P.M. and Clark, W.W. (1981). "Narrowband acoustic signals emitted by chinchilla ears after noise

        exposure,'' JASA 70, 446‑450.

Zurek, P.M., Clark, W.W., and Kim, D.O. (1982). "The behavior of acoustic distortion products in the ear canals

        of chinchillas with normal and damaged ears,'' JASA 72, 774‑780.

Clark, W.W., Kim, D.O., Zurek, P.M., and Bohne, B.A. (1984). "Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in chinchilla

        ear canals: Correlation with histopathology and suppression by external tones,'' Hearing Res. 16, 299‑314.

Zurek, P.M. (1985). "Acoustic emissions from the ear: A summary of results from humans and animals,'' JASA

        78, 340‑344.

Zurek, P.M. (1986). "Consequences of conductive auditory impairment for binaural hearing,'' JASA 80, 466‑472.

Zurek, P.M. and Durlach, N.I. (1987). "Masker bandwidth dependence in homophasic and antiphasic tone

        detection,'' JASA 81, 459‑464.

Colburn, H.S., Zurek, P.M., and Durlach, N.I. (1987). "Binaural directional hearing ‑‑ Impairments and aids,'' in

        Directional Hearing, edited by W.A. Yost and G. Gourevitch (Springer‑Verlag, New York).

Zurek, P.M. (1987). "The precedence effect,'' in Directional Hearing, edited by W.A. Yost and G.Gourevitch

        (Springer‑Verlag, New York).

Peterson, P.M., Durlach, N.I., Rabinowitz, W.M., and Zurek, P.M. (1987). "Multimicrophone adaptive

        beamforming for interference reduction in hearing aids,'' J. Rehab. Res. Dev. 24, 103‑110.

Zurek, P.M., and Delhorne, L.D. (1987). "Consonant reception in noise by listeners with mild and moderate

        sensorineural hearing impairment,'' JASA 82, 1548‑1559.

Gagne, J.‑P. and Zurek, P.M. (1988). "Resonance‑frequency discrimination,'' JASA 83, 2293‑2299.

Peterson, P.M., Wei, S.‑M., Rabinowitz, W.M., and Zurek, P.M. (1989). "Robustness of an adaptive

        beamforming method for hearing aids,'' Acta‑Otolaryn., Suppl. 469, 85‑90.

Schneider, B.A. and Zurek, P.M. (1989). "Lateralization of coherent and incoherent targets added to a diotic

        background,'' JASA 85, 1756‑1763.

Zurek, P.M., Greenberg, J.E., and Peterson, P.M. (1990). "Sensitivity to design parameters in an

        adaptive‑beamforming hearing aid,'' ICASSP‑90, 1129‑1132.

Zurek, P.M. (1991). "Probability distributions of interaural phase and level differences in binaural detection

        stimuli,'' JASA 90, 1927‑1932.

Rankovic, C.M., Freyman, R.L., and Zurek, P.M. (1992). "Potential benefits of adaptive frequency‑gain

        characteristics for speech reception in noise,'' JASA 91, 354‑362.

Greenberg, J.E. and Zurek, P.M. (1992). "Evaluation of an adaptive beamforming method for hearing aids,''

        JASA 91, 1662‑1676.

Zurek, P.M. (1992). "Detectability of transient and sinusoidal otoacoustic emissions,'' Ear & Hearing 13, 307‑310.

Greenberg, J.E., Peterson, P.M., and Zurek, P.M. (1993). "Intelligibility‑weighted measures of

        speech‑to‑interference ratio and speech system gain," JASA 94, 3009‑3010(L).

Zurek, P.M. (1993). "Binaural advantages and directional effects in speech intelligibility,'' In Acoustical Factors

        Affecting Hearing Aid Performance II, edited by G.A. Studebaker and I. Hochberg (Allyn and Bacon, Boston).

Zurek, P.M. (1993)."A note on onset effects in binaural hearing,'' JASA 93, 1200‑1201 (L).

Shinn‑Cunningham, B.G., Zurek, P.M., and Durlach, N.I. (1993). "Adjustment and discrimination measurements

        of the precedence effect,'' JASA 93, 2923‑2932.

Shinn-Cunningham, B.G., Zurek, P.M., Clifton, R.K., and Durlach, N.I. (1994). "Cross-frequency interaction in

        the precedence effect," JASA 98, 164-171.

Maxwell, J.A. and Zurek, P.M. (1995). "Feedback reduction in hearing aids," IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio

        Proc. 3, 304-313.

Duchnowski, P. and Zurek, P.M. (1995). "Villchur revisited: Another look at AGC simulation of recruiting

        hearing loss," JASA 98, 3170-3181.

Pavlovic, C.V. and Zurek, P.M. (1995). "Proposed revision of ANSI Standard S3.5 for Calculation of the

        Articulation Index," in Symposium on Speech Communication Metrics and Human Performance, edited by

        C.W. Nixon  (Armstrong Laboratory Special Report AL/CF-SR-1995-0023, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH).

Zurek, P.M., Greenberg, J.E., and Rabinowitz, W.M. (1996). "Prospects and limitations of microphone‑array

        hearing aids," In Psychoacoustics, Speech and Hearing Aids, edited by B. Kollmeier (World Scientific,

        Singapore).

Freyman, R.L., Zurek, P.M., Balakrishnan, U., and Yuan-Chuan, C. (1997). "Onset dominance in lateralization of

        click and noise-burst trains," JASA 101, 1649-1659.

Desloge, J.G, Rabinowitz, W.M. and Zurek, P.M. (1997). "Microphone-array hearing aids with binaural output. I.

        Fixed-processing systems," IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Proc. 5, 529-542.

Welker, D.P. Greenberg, J.E., Desloge, J.G, and Zurek, P.M. (1997). "Microphone-array hearing aids with

        binaural output. II. A two-microphone adaptive system," IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Proc. 5, 543-551.

Greenberg, J.E., Zurek, P.M., and Brantley, M. (2000). “Evaluation of feedback-reduction algorithms for hearing

        aids,” JASA  108, 2366-2376.

Litovsky, R.Y., Hawley, M.L., Fligor, B.J., and Zurek, P.M. (2000). “Failure to unlearn the precedence effect,”

        JASA 108, 2345-2352.

Greenberg, J.E. and Zurek, P.M. (2001). “Microphone-array hearing aids,” in Microphone Arrays: Techniques and

        Applications, edited by M.S. Brandstein and D.B. Ward (Springer-Verlag, New York).

Zurek, P.M. and Saberi, K. (2003). “Lateralization of two-transient stimuli,” Percept. & Psychophys. 65, 95-106.

Greenberg, J.E., Desloge, J.G., and Zurek, P.M. (2003). “Evaluation of array-processing algorithms for a headband         hearing aid, “JASA  113, 1648-1657.

Zurek, P.M., Freyman, R.L., and Balakrishnan, U. (2004). “Auditory target detection in reverberation,” JASA 115,

        1609-1620.

Zurek, P.M. and Desloge, J.G. (2007). “Hearing loss and prosthesis simulation in audiology,” The Hearing Journal

                                60, 32- 38.

Patents

Zurek, P.M., Greenberg, J.E., and Peterson, P.M. (1990). "Adaptive beamforming for noise reduction," U.S.

        Patent 4,956,867.

Zurek, P.M. and Rabinowitz, W.M. (1993). "Method for testing adequacy of human hearing," U.S. Patent

        5,267,571.

Zurek, P.M. (1998).  “Hearing aid headset having an array of microphones,” U.S. Patent 5,764,778.