Research

Total Funding (09/97-present) : $1,353,085 (PI: $788,584)
                                                  $840,581 (shared credit applied)

Research Funding Sources : US Army , DARPA , US Air Force (AFOSR) , Nortel Networks , TRW

Active GRANTS:

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Software Analysis/Algorithm Development for Countermine Detection System,” US Army, 08/07/03 to 12/31/04 – $140,000.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Adaptive Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Speech Processing and ITU Standard Activities on Network Signal Processing – I,” Nortel Networks, 01/01/00 to 07/31/04 – $190,000.

Principal Investigator (70% Shared Credit), “Software Analysis and Algorithm Development for HSTAMIDS-Like Systems for Humanitarian Demining,” US Army, 09/15/02 to 07/15/04 – $146,000.

Pending GRANTS:

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Phase II: An Automated Acoustic System to Bird Monitoring,” US AFOSR, 03/01/04 to 09/30/05 – $150,000.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Adaptive Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Speech Processing and ITU Standard Activities on Network Signal Processing – II,” Nortel Networks, 01/01/04 to 12/31/04 – $50,000.

Completed GRANTS:

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Software Analysis and Algorithm Development for GSTAMIDS-II,” US Army, 04/01/03 to 12/31/03 – $25,000.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “An Automated Acoustic System to Monitor and Classify Birds,” US Air Force, 12/19/02 to 07/11/03 – $30,000.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “GPR Algorithm and Sensor Fusion for Vehicle Based Landmine Detection System,” US Army, 03/01/02 to 12/31/02 – $30,778.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Advanced Land Mine Detection Algorithms for HSTAMIDS,” US Army, 03/01/02 to 12/31/02 – $29,000.

Principal Investigator (60% Shared Credit), “Software Analysis and Algorithm Development for GSTAMIDS-I,” US Army, 09/15/02 to 12/31/02 – $37,000.

Principal Investigator (50% Shared Credit), “Enhanced Land Mine Detection Algorithms for HSTAMIDS,” US Army, 03/07/01 to 03/31/02 – $50,000.

Co-Principal Investigator (13% Shared Credit), “MURI-Year5,” DARPA, 12/01/00 to 11/30/01 – $292,000.

Principal Investigator (75% Shared Credit), “Algorithm and Sensor Fusion Development for Mine Hunter/Killer ATD,” TRW, 09/01/00 to 01/31/01 – $16,806.

Co-Principal Investigator (50% Shared Credit), “Improved Land Mine Detection Algorithms for HSTAMIDS,” US Army, 06/01/00 to 11/30/00 – $88,951.

Co-Principal Investigator (50% Shared Credit), “Support Services for the Mine Hunter/Killer ATD,” US Army, 02/28/00 to 8/21/00 – $24,700.

Co-Principal Investigator (50% Shared Credit), “Extension of Improved Land Mine Detection Algorithms for HSTAMIDS – intermediate team,” US Army, 04/01/00 to 05/31/00 – $22,000.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “ITU Activities on Telecommunications,” Nortel Networks, 01/01/99 to 12/31/99 – $20,000.

Co-Principal Investigator (25% Shared Credit), “Handheld Standoff Mine Detection System,” US Army, 04/08/99 to 03/07/00 – $136,850.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Aircraft Identification from Radar Signals Using Wavelets,” Royal Military College of Canada, 11/01/97 to 03/31/00 – $38,000.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Speech Enhancement for Wireless Communications,” UM Research Board, RB 98-024Ho, 01/01/98 to 12/31/99 – $36,000.

Principal Investigator (100% Shared Credit), “Adaptive signal processing techniques for echo cancellation with emphasis on performance during double talk,” NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Research Grant, 04/01/97 to 03/31/00 – $28,800 (CA$48,000), (terminated when I moved to US).

PATENTS

2000, R. Rabipour, K. C. Ho, M. Foodeei and M. Saikaly, "Methods and apparatus for echo suppression," U.S. Patent No. 6,011,846

1999, K. C. Ho, R. Rabipour and M. Foodeei, "Method and apparatus for computing measures of echo," U.S. Patent No. 5,943,645

1999, K. C. Ho, "Enhanced echo canceller for digital cellular application," U.S. Patent No. 5,912,966

1998, K. C. Ho, "An echo cancellation system for digital telephony," filed for international patent application – serial number: PCP-CA96/00771 in 11/96, filed for patent application in Canada, China, European, Japan and Mexico in 03/98