Womack, Baxter

Biography:

Dr. Womack's teaching and research centers around system and control theory, adaptive and optimum control, and cybernetics. Frequently, a system or device requires a good model utilizing advanced mathematics and computations algorithms. This pattern is true for the heart-rate respiratory system, neuronal models and visually-evoked potential signal processing.  It is also used in pause and intonation in synthesized speech, knowledge-enhanced models for continuous speech recognition, identification of multicompartmental model parameters, memory organization for expert systems, and compacta models of the typical human brain. Dr. Womack's goal is to produce a new understanding of selected living things via accurate computer models. These models could be tested easily using input signals that might injure living things. This could lead to new adaptive-learning algorithms, new clinical practices, better therapy techniques or new medical-assist devices.

Dr. Womack has served as the ECE and BME Program graduate advisor. His greatest love is to participate in research that produces graduate student's theses and dissertations. Affiliated with: Computer Engineering Research Center, Telecommunications and Signal Processing Research Center, and the Neuroscience Institute

Research Interests:

• system and control theory
• adaptive and optimum control
• cybernetics