Dr. Bunnell received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University in 1983, concentrating in human speech perception and the acoustic properties of speech (acoustic phonetics). From 1983 to 1989, he worked as a Research Scientist in the Sensory Communication Research Laboratory (later Center for Auditory and Speech Sciences) at Gallaudet University conducting research on the application of digital speech processing techniques to hearing enhancement, primarily for acoustic hearing aid users. In 1989 he became the director of the Speech Processing Laboratory at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children where his research interests expanded to include text to speech synthesis and speech recognition. Dr. Bunnell is now the director of the Nemours Center for Pediatric Auditory and Speech Sciences (CPASS) and head of the Speech Research Laboratory within the CPASS. Since 2000, he has also served as director of the Nemours Biomedical Research Department's Bioinformatics Core. The Bioinformatics Core maintains computing infrastructure for Nemours Biomedical Research, and provides expertise in applications development, biostatistics, data mining, and numerical analysis. Dr. Bunnell's primary research interests are in biomedical and clinical applications of speech technology for the diagnosis and remediation of hearing and speech disorders, particularly in pediatric patients.
Education & Training
Medical/Dental School
BS - University of Maryland, Psychology, 1975
MS - The Pennsylvania State University, Psychology, 1978
PhD - The Pennsylvania State University, Psychology, 1983
Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering
Bioinformatics/Clinical Informatics
Biostatistics/Biometrics
Neuroscience
Psychology, Cognitive
Speech Science
Schultz, C. L., McCahan, S. M., Lewis, A. M., Bunnell, H. T., & Alderfer, M. A. (2021). Online patient portal use by caregivers in pediatric oncology: Are we widening sociodemographic disparities? Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 68(12). doi:10.1002/pbc.29373 View Full Publication
Bailey, L. C., Razzaghi, H., Burrows, E. K., Bunnell, H. T., Camacho, P. E. F., Christakis, D. A., & Forrest, C. B. (2021). Assessment of 135794 Pediatric Patients Tested for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 across the United States. JAMA Pediatrics, 175(2), 176-184. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5052 View Full Publication
Toh, S., Rifas-Shiman, S. L., Lin, P.-I. D., Bailey, L. C., Forrest, C. B., Horgan, C. E., & on behalf of the PCORnet Antibiotics and Childhood Growth Study Group. (2020). Privacy-protecting multivariable-adjusted distributed regression analysis for multi-center pediatric study. Pediatric Research, 87(6), 1086-1092. doi:10.1038/s41390-019-0596-0 View Full Publication
Lang, J. E., Bunnell, H. T., Lima, J. J., Hossain, M. J., Wysocki, T., Bacharier, L., & Forrest, C. B. (2019). Effects of age, sex, race/ethnicity, and allergy status in obesity-related pediatric asthma. Pediatric Pulmonology, 54(11), 1684-1693. doi:10.1002/ppul.24470 View Full Publication
Lang, J. E., Bunnell, H. T., Hossain, J., Wysocki, T., Lima, J. J., Finkel, T. H., & Forrest, C. B. (2018). Being overweight or obese and the development of asthma. Pediatrics, 142(6). doi:10.1542/peds.2018-2119 View Full Publication
Lilley, J., Crowgey, E., & Timothy Bunnell, H. (2018). The use of machine learning and phonetic endophenotypes to discover genetic variants associated with speech sound disorder (Vol 2018-September). doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2398
Lilley, J., Ratnagiri, M., & Timothy Bunnell, H. (2017). Prediction of speech delay from acoustic measurements (Vol 2017-August). doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1740
Timothy Bunnell, H., Lilley, J., & McGrath, K. (2017). The model talker project: A web-based voice banking pipeline for als/mnd patients (Vol 2017-August). doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2017-2054
Antal, H., Bunnell, H. T., McCahan, S. M., Pennington, C., Wysocki, T., & Blake, K. V. (2017). A cognitive approach for design of a multimedia informed consent video and website in pediatric research. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 66, 248-258. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2017.01.011 View Full Publication
Blake, K., Holbrook, J. T., Antal, H., Shade, D., Bunnell, H. T., McCahan, S. M., & Wysocki, T. (2015). Use of mobile devices and the internet for multimedia informed consent delivery and data entry in a pediatric asthma trial: Study design and rationale. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 42, 105-118. doi:10.1016/j.cct.2015.03.012 View Full Publication
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