UIC - Dr. Graupe's Page

	Daniel Graupe Professor
	Contact Information
		312.996.3085
		312.996.6465(fax)
		851 S. Morgan M/C 154
		Chicago, IL 60607

		graupe[at]ece[dot]uic[dot]edu

	Education
		Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
		University of Liverpool, England
		Dipl. Ing. Electrical Engineering
		Israel Institute of Technology, Technion 1960
		B.Sc. Electrical Engineering
		Israel Institute of Technology, Technion 1958
		B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
		Israel Institute of Technology, Technion 1958

Professional Achievements


		LIFE FELLOW of the IEEE since 2003

		Fellow of the IEEE, since 1985

		Invention & Development of 1st FDA-approved & 1st (& only) Commercial Electrical Stimulation
		System -the PARASTEP , that allows complete thoracic-level Paraplegic to ambulate (1500 ft average, after completing training) independently
		-See VIDEO & Patents List in PERSONAL PAGES of D. Graupe.

		Parastep in now Medicare & Medicaid reimbursable.

		Also founding of Sigmedics Inc. for commercializing that System

		Invention & Development of Blind Adaptive Filtering (BAF) System to filter unknown noises from
		unknown signals

		-See Patents List in PERSONAL PAGES.

		Also founding Intellitech Inc. to commercialize 1st BAF system for filtering unknown environmental noise from speech in Hearing Aids (1979)

		Considered in the literature as Father of Digital Hearing Aid, for work on incorporating a Blind
		Digital Filter in Hearing Aids

		Development of the LAMSTAR-Large Memory Neural Network (Cf. US Patent # 5,920,852,
		issued 7/6/99

Research Interests

Professor Graupe's research interests include control systems, time series analysis, stochastic signal and image processing, wavelets, blind adaptive filtering, neural networks, neural engineering, electrical neuromuscular stimulation and biomedical control, speech processing.

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Daniel Graupe Professor

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