Renetta Garrison Tull,
Ph.D.
Director: PROMISE: Maryland's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP),
focusing on graduate school diversity and the transition to the professoriate at the public research universities in Maryland
(UMBC, UM College Park, UM Baltimore Medical School)
Faculty: Hearing and Speech Sciences (HESP), University of Maryland College Park
Courses: HESP
403
Research interests:
Speech recognition,
accessibility, assistive technology, voice-enabled technologies for people
with vocal pathologies
Background
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Communicative Disorders, 2000.
Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois
Ph.D., Speech
Science, 1999.
Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois
M.S., Electrical Engineering,
1994.
Howard University,
Washington, D.C.
B.S., Electrical
Engineering, 1991.
Previous Experience
(partial list)
- Assistant Professor, Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Director, Speech Technology Laboratory, University of Wisconson-Madison
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University
- TA Fellow , Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University
Current Projects
Deaf speech and speaker recognition output
Phonetic analysis of non-prototypical speech for voice
XML programming
Selected Research in Print
R.G. Tull,
E. Molin, M. Lindstedt, and J. Dykstra, “Integrating Voice-Related Disabilities
and Voice-Enabled Technologies”,
Proceedings
of AVIOS Conference on Speech Technology Applications, pg. 217-222, April
2001.
R.G. Tull,
J. Dyskstra, M. Lindstedt, and E. Molin, “Evaluating Consonant Errors in
Speech Recognition Programs”,
Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), Vol. 109, No. 5, Pt. 2, May 2001.
R. G. Tull
and N. Mizelle, “Toward Determining Factors of Speech Technology Avoidance
(STA)”,
The ASHA
Leader, American Speech and Hearing Association, Vol. 5, No. 16. 160Bd12,
pg. 95, August 29, 2000.
P. Brown
and R. G. Tull, “Improving Spoken English of Deaf Speakers Using Automatic
Speech Recognition”,
The ASHA
Leader, American Speech and Hearing Association, Vol. 5, No. 16, 88Bd10, pg.
82, August 29, 2000.
P. Y. Chung
and R. G. Tull, “Technology Use among Teens and Young Adults with Autism
and Related Disabilities”,
ASHA Augmentative
and Alternative Communication SID 12 Newsletter, August 2000.
P. Brown,
R. G. Tull, J. Dykstra, M. Lindstedt, and E. Molin, “Deaf Talkers and Automatic
Speech Recognition Performance Errors:
An Analysis Report”, UW-Madison Speech Technology Lab Working Papers, Results reported and acknowledged in presentation:
“Spoken Communication Assessment and Instruction using Automatic Speech Recognition Technology”,
International
Congress on Education of the Deaf, Sydney, Australia, July 2000.
R. G. Tull,
“Returning to Formant Frequency Analysis: A Step toward Understanding Performance
Problems
of Cold-Speech in Automatic Speaker Recognition Systems” Angelika Braun (ed.): Advances in Phonetics.
Proceedings of the International Phonetic Sciences Conference (IPS), Bellingham, WA, June 27-30, 1998.
Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte 106, 1-5. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Special Supplement
Issue of Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1999.
Selected
Presentations about State-of-the-Art Speech Technologies
“Mobile Speech
Applications: A Focus on Vocal Pathology
Accessibility”,
SpeechTek 2001, New York, New York, October
2001.
"IBM
and Accessibility: Integrating Voice-Related
Disabilities and Voice-Enabled Technologies",
IBM Thomas
J. Watson Laboratories Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, November
2000.
“Melding:
Speech Disorders and Emerging Technologies”,
National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Grant Review, Ultra Tec
Labs, Madison, WI. June 1998.
"Confidently
Developing Competitive Graduate School Applications"
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Orlando, FL, January 6,
2006
"The Importance of Being a Good Citizen in Your Ph.D. Department: Graduate School Politics
and its Effects on Your Successful Completion of the Ph.D."
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Orlando, FL, January 4, 2006
"An Introduction to the GRE",
American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Charlotte, NC, November 2005
"Tools for Doing Well on the GRE" , UMBC Graduate Horizons, Baltimore, MD, October 29, 2005
"Elements of the Graduate School Application",
UMBC Graduate School Fair, Baltimore, MD, October 19, 2005
"Strategies for Taking the GRE"
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 7, 2005
"Popularity in the Department", Emerge, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, September 200
"Tenure, Promotion, and Mentoring"
(Panel: Renetta G. Tull, Marilyn
Demorest, Patrice McDermott, and Katherine Seley Radtke), National Science
Foundation UMBC ADVANCE Faculty Horizons Workshop for Aspiring STEM Faculty,
Baltimore, MD, July 16, 2005.
"Career Choices and Transitions"
(Panel: Renetta G. Tull, Michael
Smith, Johney Green Jr., and Eric Sheppard), 7th Annual Future Faculty Professional
Sumpoisum, National GEM Consortium Conference, Boston, MA, July 1, 2005
Students Through an Alliance-Wide Weekend Retreat"
(Abstract Authors: Renetta G. Tull,
Janet C. Rutledge, Jordan Warnick, Johnetta G. Davis, and Jill Pegues)
(Poster Contributors: Renetta G.
Tull, Janet C. Rutledge, Johnetta G. Davis, Jordan Warnick, and Jill Pegues)
“An Inclusive Approach to Stimulating Underrepresented Ph.D. STEM Student Retention and Progression,”
(Abstract Authors: Renetta G. Tull, Janet C. Rutledge,
and Scott A. Bass)
2nd
Annual Bouchet Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 2, 2005.
Other
activities and interests
The “other” Dr. Tull (Husband: Damon L. Tull, Ph.D., Research area:
Image processing and digital camera algorithms); Damon is the founder of DVIP Multimedia, a digital imaging
technology company in Maryland.
E-mail
address & Phone
rtull@umbc.edu, 410.455.2930
Last revised:
2006