KEVIN D. DONOHUE, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky
Professional Preparation:
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, Mathematics, B.A., April 1981
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Electrical Engineering, B.S., May 1984
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Electrical Engineering, M.S., May 1985
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., December 1987
Appointments:
2009-Present
2006-Present
2007
2000-2005
1997 to 2000
1994 to 1997
1994 to 2006
1991 to 1994
1988 to 1991
1988 to 1988
1985 to 1986
1985 to 1985
Cofounder and Technical Director of Signal Solutions, LLC, Lexington, Kentucky
Databeam Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Interim Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of
Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky
Interim Department Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Senior Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Instructor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, Illinois
Engineer, Zenith Electronics Corporation, Glenview, Illinois
Recent Selected Publications:
1. “Evaluation of a piezoelectric system as an alternative to EEG/EMG recording in mouse sleep studies,” G.M. Mang,
J.Nicod, Y. Emmenegger, K.D. Donohue, B.F. O’Hara, P. Franken, Sleep 37(8):1383-92. DOI: 10.5665/sleep.3936.
July 2014
2. "Time-Frequency Masking for Speaker of Interest Extraction in an immersive environment," H. Unnikrishnan, K.D.
Donohue and J. Hannemann, to be published in Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon 2014, March 2014.
3. "Diffuse Brain Injury Induces Acute Post-Traumatic Sleep," R.K. Rowe, M. Striz, A.D. Bachstetter, L.J. Van Eldik,
K.D. Donohue, B.F. O'Hara, and J. Lifshitz, PLoS ONE 9(1): e82507 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082507, Jan. 2014
4. "Optimal Irregular Microphone Distributions with Enhanced Beamforming Performance in Immersive Environments,"
J. Yu and K.D. Donohue, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 134(3), September 2013.
5. “In vivo measurement of pediatric vocal fold motion using structured light laser projection,” R. R. Patel, K.D.
Donohue, D. A. Lau, H. Unnikrishnan, Journal of Voice 27(4):463-72, July 2013. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2013.03.004.
6. “Geometry descriptors of irregular microphone arrays related to beamforming performance,” J. Yu and K.D.
Donohue, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2012:249, November 2012, doi:10.1186/1687-61802012-249
7. “Effects of gabapentin on muscle spasticity and both induced as well as spontaneous autonomic dysreflexia after
complete spinal cord injury,” A.G. Rabchevsky, S.P. Patel, T.S. Lyttle, K.C. Eldahan, C. R. O'Dell, Y. Zhang, P. G.
Popovich, P.H. Kitzman, K.D. Donohue, Frontiers in Integrative Physiolog ,August 2012 doi:
10.3389/fphys.2012.00329
8. “Effects of aging and genotype on circadian rhythms, sleep, and clock gene expression in APPxPS1 knock-in mice, a
model for Alzheimer's disease,” M.J. Duncan, J T Smith, K.M. Franklin, T.L. Beckett, M.P.Murphy, D. St. Claird,
K.D. Donohue, M. Striz, and B.F. O’Hara, Experimental Neurology, 236 (2012) 249–258, May 2012
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“Laser projection imaging for clinical measurement of pediatric voice,” R.R. Patel, K.D. Donohue, W.C. Johnson, and
S.M. Archer, The Laryngoscope, 121:2411–2417, Nov. 2011.
“Performance for Randomly Described Arrays,” J. Yu and K.D. Donohue, 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of
Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, NY, pp. 269-272, Oct. 2011
“Constant False Alarm Rate Sound Source Detection with Distributed Microphones,” K.D. Donohue, S.M.
SaghaianNejadEsfahani, and J. Yu, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Volume 2011, Article ID
656494, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2011/656494, Mar. 2011
“Stability Analysis for the Generalized Sidelobe Canceller,” J. P. Townsend and K.D. Donohue, IEEE Signal
Processing Letters, vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 603-606, June 2010.
“A Comparative Study of Perceptional Quality between Wavefield Synthesis And Multipole–Matched Rendering For
Spatial Audio,” J. Hannemann, C.A. Leedy, K.D. Donohue, S. Spors, and A. Raake, Proc. 2008 IEEE International
Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 397- 400, April 2008.
“Performance for Phase Transform for Detecting Sound Sources in Reverberant and Noisy Environments,” K.D.
Donohue, J. Hannemann, and H.G. Dietz, Signal Processing, Vol. 87, no. 7, pp. 1677-1691, July 2007.
Patents:
1. J. Hannemann and K.D. Donohue, “Method and System for Creating Three-Dimensional Spatial Audio,” Serial No.
12/253,753, Filed Oct. 17, 2008, Patent No. 8,391,500, Awarded March 5, 2013
2. John Gurley and Kevin D. Donohue, U.S. Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application for Method and Apparatus for
the Detection of Cardiopulmonary Defects, serial no. 12/793,444, Filed June 3, 2010.
3. Kevin D. Donohue and Bruce F. O’Hara, “Noise Cancellation For Piezoelectric Sensor Recordings,” serial no.
14/523,994, Filed Nov. 7, 2014.
Synergistic Activities:
1. I cofounded Signal Solutions, LLC based on technology developed to track sleep and wake behaviors in mice useful
for high-throughput genetic studies. We currently have several active installations in the USA and in Europe and
funding to expand capabilities for general tracking of animal behavior.
2. As Director of Undergraduate studies and Department Chair from 1995 to 2004, I led the department in a paradigm
shift from a topic and lecture-based curriculum to a student outcome-based curriculum, and developed feedback and
improvement processes. This resulted in 2 successful accreditations reviews on the ABET 2000 criteria.
3. As a member of the cognitive science interdisciplinary group at the University of Kentucky, I regularly give lectures
on the cognitive components of audio and video processing of the human mind and focus on understanding and
modeling these processes so they can be applied in engineering analysis and design.
4. As a participant in the REU program for the last 4 years, I have developed research projects for 6 students in
underrepresented groups to work or 10 weeks in my laboratory and present their results both in oral and written form.
5. I have developed special undergraduate courses that focus on implementing signal and information processing
concepts with modern software. One is a lecture and laboratory course where students write program to implement
solve problems every week in areas of signal processing, communication, and control other is a senior level lecture
course in audio signals and systems that has a lecture component and a studio component. (See EE422 and EE513 at
http://www.engr.uky.edu/~donohue/courses.html )
6. I have been a Co-PI and currently the PI on an NSF-EPSCoRE infrastructure grant focused on developing sensor
systems and networks for scene/situation understanding and characterization. Currently we are developing a
multimodal multiple sensor testbed for developing research in signal processing, sensor networks, and distributed
computing with faculty computer science, electrical and computer engineering, psychology, and education.
Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Jafar Saniie (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL)
Ph.D. Advisees: Dr. Tomy Varghese (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), Dr. Lexun Huang
(Pelco by Schneider Electric, Fresno, CA), Dr. Nathir Rawashdeh (German Jordanian University,
Amana, Jordan), Jingjing Yu (Jiaotong University, Beijing, China)
Total number of graduate students advised: 4 PhD students, 45 MS students