Senior Consultants Info

Degrees Conferred and Other Educational Experience:

BS                                     Boston University                            1949

MEd                                 Boston University                            1951

MA                                   University of Iowa                           1953

PhD                                  University of Iowa                           1955

Postdoctoral                    Northwestern University               1958

Specialty Fields: Phonetic Sciences, Forensic Communication, Underwater Comm.,
                                    Psychoacoustics

Academic Experience -- University of Florida:
Founding Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Communication Processes, 1982-pres.; Director, 1975-82; Senior Research Scientist, 1998-pres.

 
Professor, Linguistics, 1976-1998; Associate Director, 1989-91; Professor, Speech, (now CSD) 1968-1998 (Assoc. Prof., 1962-8); Professor, Criminal Justice, 1979-98.

 
Director, Communication Sciences Laboratory, 1968-75; Assoc. Director, 1962-68.

Academic Experience -- Other:
Fullbright Professor, PHONETIK, University of Trier, Trier, West Germany, 1987.
Visiting Professor, Instit. Telecom./Acoustics, Wroclaw Tech. Univ., Poland, 1974.
Adjunct Professor, Juilliard School of Music, 1973-81.
Visiting Scientist, Speech Trans. Lab., Royal Instit. Technology, Stockholm, 1970.
Research Associate, Gould Research Laboratory, 1958.
Guest Professor, Paul Quinn College  1956-58.
Assistant Professor, Baylor University, 1955-58; University of Wichita, 1958-62.

Honors:

International Awards for Research: a) Garcia/Sandoz Prize - IALP (1971), b) Gould Award - Gould Found.  (1975), c) Gutzmann Medal - UEP (1980), d) Kay Elemetrics Prize - ISPhS (1987), e) Hunt Award - AAFS (1988), f) Smith Prize - ISPhS (1991), g) Honors of the Association - ISPhS (1998), (h) Honors of the Association AAPS (2007).

Elected Fellow: a) Amer. Speech Hear. Assn. (1962), b) Acoust. Soc. Amer. (1978), c) Internat. Soc. Phonetic Sci.    (1979), d) Amer. Acad. Forensic Sci. (1980), e) Amer. Assn.  Advancement Sci. (1985), f) Instit. Acoustics (1990).

Other: a) RCDA, NIH 1965-70; b) Sigma Xi (1966); c) Scientific Exhibit Awards:

First, ASHA, (1967), First and Second, ASHA (1969); d) Distinguished Service Awards, Voice Foundation (1981; 1993); e) Fulbright Professorship (1987); f) Honorary Vice Pres., Japanese Soc. Phonetic Sciences (1989); g)  Professorial Excellence Award, Univ. Fla. (1996); h) Honorary President, International Society of Phonetic Sciences, 1999-pres; i) Patriot Medal, National Society, Sons of the American Revolution (2003).

Membership in Societies:
Internat. Soc. Phonetic Sci. (Emerit.); Amer. Assn. Phonetic Sci.; Amer. Acad. Forensic Sci.(Emerit.); Acoust. Soc. Amer. (Emerit.); Amer. Assn. Adv. Sci. (Emerit); Military Officer's Assn(Life);Internat. Assn. Forensic Phonetics (Hon. Life); Firearms Toolmark Examiners; Nat. Society, Sons Amer. Revol.; Soc. Mayflower Descend.; Order of Founders-Patriots; Jamestowne Soc.; Soc. Colonial Wars.

Grants:

Principal Investigator on 154 research grants (or related) from DOD, NIH, NSF, ONR, ARO, Justice -- plus other federal agencies, industry and foundations.  Two among the most recent and relevant: AA-09377, NIAAA, NIH. Assessment of Speech Intoxication Relationships 1994-1996 FA48414-04 Counterintelligence Field Activity, DOD, Voice Stress Analysis 2004-2006

Forensic and Expert Testimony:

Total cases through 2009: 654; Testimony: 129. Areas: Speaker identification, acoustics of gunfire, tape authentication, speech decoding/enhancement, noise control/analysis, electronic signatures, aircraft acoustics, correlates of intoxication, stress in voice, credibility assessment.

Publications:

Major: 286 (including three books, one patent)  Other publications (including presentations): 803. Selected examples:

Hollien, H. and Majewski (2009) Unintended Consequences: Due to Lack of Standards for Speaker

Identification and Other Forensic Procedures. Proceed, Sixteenth Internat. Congress on Sound and Vibration,

Krakow Poland, July, 866: 1-6

Hollien, H., Harnsberger, J.D., Martin, C.A. and Hollien, K.A., (2008) Evaluation of the CVSA Voice Stress Analyzer, J. Forensic Sciences, 53:183-193.

Hollien, H., (2008) Forensic Phonetics, Chapter in The Forensic Sciences, (C.H. Wecht, ED.) Revised Edition, New York, Matthew Bender Co., Chapter 28B: 1-149

Hollien, H. (2002) Forensic Voice Identification, London, Academic Press Forensics.

Hollien, H., DeJong, G., Martin, C.A., Schwartz, R., and Liljegren, K. (2001) Effects of Ethanol Intoxication on Speech Suprasegmentals, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 110:3198-3206.

Hollien, H. and Schwartz, R., (2001) Speaker Identification Utilizing Non-contemporary Speech, J. Forensic Sciences, 46:63-67.

Hollien, H., Bishop, J., Huntley-Bahr, R. and Gelfer, M.P. (1999) Near-field Speech Intelligibility in CBW Masks, Military Medicine, 164:543-550.

Hollien, H., DeJong G. and Martin, C.A. (1998) Production of Intoxication States by Actors: Perception by Lay Listeners, J. Forensic Sciences, 43:1153-1162.

Hollien, H. and Jiang, M. (1998) The Challenge of Effective Speaker Identification, (Keynote), RLA2C Avignon 1998,
2-9.

Hollien, H. (1996) Consideration of Guidelines for Earwitness Lineups, Forensic Linguistics, 3:14- 23.

Hollien, H. and Hollien, K.A. (1994) Acoustic Patterning of Small-Arms Gunfire, AFTE Journal, 26:41-49.

Hollien, H. (1990) The Expert Witness: Ethics and Responsibilities, J. Forensic Sciences, 35:1414-1423.

Hollien, H. (1990) The Acoustics of Crime, New York, Plenum Press, pp 363, ISBN 0-306-43467-9.

Hollien, H., Gelfer, M.P. and Huntley, R. (1990) The Natural Vector Concept in Speaker Identification, Neue Tenden-zen in der Angewandten Phonetik, (V.A. Borowski and J.-P     Koster, Eds.) Hamburg, Helmut Buske Verlag, 62:71-8.