Areas of Technical Interest

• Communication Systems
• Audio and Speech Processing
• Signal Processing
• Electromagnetics

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, 1987
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, 1985
• A.S., Engineering Science, Mohawk Valley Community College, 1983

Selected Publications

• Thomas Yang, Douglas Smith, Daniel Benincasa, “I/Q Imbalances in QAM Communication Systems with Multi-Antenna Receivers and IF Architecture, SoutheastCon 2018
• Clifford Hopkins, Daniel S. Benincasa, Roy J. Ratley, John J. Grieco, “Evaluation of Voice Stress Analysis Technology”, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2005.
• Daniel S. Benincasa, Stephen Smith, Megan Smith, “Impacting the War on Terrorism with Language Translation”, IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2004.
• Jereme Lovekin, Robert E. Yantorno, Daniel S. Benincasa, Stanley J. Wenndt, “Developing Usable Speech Criteria for Speaker Identification Technology”, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2001
• Daniel S. Benincasa, Michael Savic, “Voicing State Determination of Co-channel Speech”, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 1998.
• Daniel S. Benincasa, Peter W. Barber, Jian-Zhi Zhang, Wen-Feng Hsieh, Richard K. Chang, “Spatial distribution of the internal and near-field intensities of large cylindrical and spherical scatterers”, Applied Optics, Volume 26, Issue 7, 1348, April 1987.

Patents

• Method and apparatus for embedding data in audio signals, Kaliappan Gopalan, Daniel S. Benincasa (Issued on 25 April 2006, U.S. Patent Number 7,035,700)
• Method for improving speaker identification by determining usable speech, Robert Yantorno, Daniel S. Benincasa, Stanley J. Wenndt, Brett Y. Smolenski (Issued on 13 February 2007, U.S. Patent Number 7,177,808,)

Industrial Experience

• Research Consultant, Sand Ridge Consulting, Barneveld NY, 2005 - Present
• Electronics Engineer, United State Air Force Research Laboratory / Rome Research Site, Rome NY, 1987 – 2001
• Member of the Technical Staff, Bell Communications Research, Red Bank, NJ , 1987 -1987

Relevant Courses Taught

• ECE 251 – Digital Logic Design
• ECE 252 – Microprocessors
• ECE 260 – Electrical Circuits I
• ECE 360 – Electrical Circuits II
• ECE 323 – Electromagnetics