Peer-reviewed publications
43 entries
Voice as a Vital Sign, Validated · 2024–2026
2026
Vocal Fundamental Frequency and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Insights from a Large Multi-Country Cohort in Africa
Journal of Voice
Arman Khoshnevis, Mohsen Zayernouri, Leapetswe Malete, Dale Joachim, Amara E. Ezeamama, Roumen Vesselinov, Chelsi Ricketts, Reginald Ocansey, Rosemary C. Muomah, Dawn Tladi, Joyce Sifa Ndabi, Maryam Naghibolhosseini
2026
Covid-19 symptom burden, chronic disease, mental health, and executive function: Multi-country evidence from four African countries
medRxiv · Preprint
Leapetswe Malete, Amara E. Ezeamama, Chelsi Ricketts, Dale Joachim, Maryam Naghibolhosseini, Mohsen Zayernouri, Reginald Ocansey, Rosemary C. Muomah, Dawn Tladi, Joyce Sifa Ndabi
2025
Respiratory-Responsive Vocal Biomarker for Asthma Exacerbation Monitoring: Prospective Cohort Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Erik Larsen, Xinyu D. Song, Dale Joachim, Peter Ch'en, Samuel Green, Emily Hunt, Savneet Kaur, Robin Nag, Olivia Pisani, Sherron Thomas, Victoria Adewunmi, Carlo Lutz, Babak Baghizadeh-Toosi, Jonathan M. Feldman, Sunit Jariwala
2025
Interactive Panel Summaries of the 2024 Voice AI Symposium
Frontiers in Digital Health · Review
Jean-Christophe Belisle-Pipon, James Anibal, Ruth Huntley Bahr, Steven Bedrick, Oita C. Coleman, David A. Dorr, Barbara J. Evans, Guy Fagherazzi, Alexander Gelbard, Satrajit Ghosh, Anita Ho, Christie Jackson, Dale Joachim, Lampros Kourtis, Andrea Krussel, Amir Lahav, Breanna Leuze, Bob MacDonald, Geralyn Miller, Vivek Mohan, Matthew R. Naunheim, Maria Powell, Anais Rameau, Sat Ramphal, Vardit Ravitsky, Charlie Reavis, Samantha Salvi Cruz, Jamie Toghranegar, Adam P. Vogel, Stephanie Watts, Joseph Yracheta, Robin Zhao, Yael Bensoussan
2024
Physical activity and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania: insights for public health policy in low-income contexts
Frontiers in Public Health
Joyce Sifa Ndabi, Alfa Simwanza, JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji, Dawn Tladi, Rosemary C. Muomah, Sampson Kelechi Nwonyi, Doris Akosua Tay, Dale Joachim, Leapetswe Malete, Clement Adamba, Vida Korleki Nyawornota, Oscar Nyanyofio, Samuel Kofi Donkor, Reginald Ocansey
2024
Self-perception of health and physical activity levels among the youth and adults before and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
Frontiers in Public Health
Vida Korleki Nyawornota, Clement Adamba, Doris Akosua Tay, Oscar Cornelius Nyanyo Nyanyofio, Rosemary C. Muomah, JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji, Sampson Kelechi Nwonyi, Leapetswe Malete, Dale Joachim, Reginald T-A. Ocansey
2024
Validating the efficacy and value proposition of mental fitness vocal biomarkers in a psychiatric population: prospective cohort study
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Erik Larsen, Olivia Murton, Xinyu Song, Dale Joachim, Devon Watts, Flavio Kapczinski, Lindsey G. Venesky, Gerald Hurowitz
Voice Biomarkers in Naturalistic and Clinical Environments · 2018–2023
2023
Physical activity and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria: does age and gender make a difference?
Discover Social Science and Health
Rosemary C. Muomah, JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji, Sampson Kelechi Nwonyi, Doris Akosua Tay, Dale Joachim, Leapetswe Malete, Clement Adamba, Vida Korleki Nyawornota, Oscar Nyanyofio, Samuel Kofi Donkor, Reginald Ocansey
2022
Breaking Age Barriers With Automatic Voice-Based Depression Detection
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Brian Stasak, Dale Joachim, Julien Epps
2021
Depression Classification Using n-Gram Speech Errors from Manual and Automatic Stroop Color Test Transcripts
EMBC (Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) · Conference
Brian Stasak, Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Dale Joachim
2021
Automatic Elicitation Compliance for Short-Duration Speech Based Depression Detection
ICASSP (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing) · Conference
Brian Stasak, Zhaocheng Huang, Dale Joachim, Julien Epps
2021
A Study of Novel Exploratory Tools, Digital Technologies, and Central Nervous System Biomarkers to Characterize Unipolar Depression
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Oleksandr Sverdlov, Jelena Curcic, Kristin Hannesdottir, Liangke Gou, Valeria De Luca, Francesco Ambrosetti, Bingsong Zhang, Jens Praestgaard, Vanessa Vallejo, Andrew J. Dolman, Baltazar Gomez-Mancilla, Konstantinos Biliouris, Mark Deurinck, Francesca Cormack, John J.B. Anderson, Nicholas T. Bott, Ziv Peremen, Gil Issachar, Offir Laufer, Dale Joachim, Raj Jagesar, Niels Jongs, Martien J. Kas, Ahnjili Zhuparris, Rob Zuiker, Kasper Recourt, Zarif Zuilhof, Jang-Ho Cha, Gabriel E. Jacobs
2021
Automatic Detection of COVID-19 Based on Short-Duration Acoustic Smartphone Speech Analysis
Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research
Brian Stasak, Zhaocheng Huang, Sabah Razavi, Dale Joachim, Julien Epps
2020
Domain Adaptation for Enhancing Speech-Based Depression Detection in Natural Environmental Conditions Using Dilated CNNs
INTERSPEECH · Conference
Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Dale Joachim, Brian Stasak, James R. Williamson, Thomas F. Quatieri
2020
Exploiting Vocal Tract Coordination Using Dilated CNNs for Depression Detection in Naturalistic Environments
ICASSP · Conference
Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Dale Joachim
2019
Natural Language Processing Methods for Acoustic and Landmark Event-Based Features in Speech-Based Depression Detection
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Dale Joachim, Vidhyasaharan Sethu
2019
Investigation of Speech Landmark Patterns for Depression Detection
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Dale Joachim
2019
Speech Landmark Bigrams for Depression Detection from Naturalistic Smartphone Speech
ICASSP · Conference
Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Dale Joachim
2018
Depression Detection from Short Utterances via Diverse Smartphones in Natural Environmental Conditions
INTERSPEECH · Conference
Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Dale Joachim, Michael Chen
Foundational — Acoustic Sensing, Bioacoustics, Signal Theory · 1997–2013
2013
Airport Surface Traffic Management Decision Support: Perspectives Based on Tower Flight Data Manager Prototype
MIT Lincoln Laboratory / FAA Technical Report · Technical Report
H. Mehta, Tom Reynolds, Mariya Ishutkina, Dale Joachim, Yan Glina, Seth W. Troxel, Brad Taylor, J. E. Evans
2012
Tower Flight Data Manager Benefits Assessment: Initial Investment Decision Interim Report
MIT Lincoln Laboratory / FAA Technical Report · Technical Report
Tom Reynolds, Amy L. Alexander, Mariya Ishutkina, Dale Joachim, Richard W. Jordan, Alex Nakahara, Alison Weaver
2007
On the use of cellular telephony for audio interaction with animals
Biology Letters
Dale Joachim, Eben Goodale
2007
Estimating the error bound in QOBE Vowel classification
IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) · Conference
Timothy P. Kraus, G. I. Mandour, Dale Joachim
2007
Convergence analysis of the quasi-OBE algorithm and related performance issues
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
J. R. Deller, S. Gollamudi, S. Nagaraj, Dale Joachim, Yih-Fang Huang
2006
Direction-Finding Experimentation through Acoustic Sensor Fabrication
IECON (Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society) · Conference
D'Mark Hunter, Dale Joachim
2006
DF Experimentation through Parametric Simulation
ICCES (International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems) · Conference
D'Mark Hunter, Dale Joachim
2006
Robustness optimization of parametric speech watermarking
ISCAS (IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems) · Conference
Aparna Gurijala, J. R. Deller Jr., Dale Joachim
2006
Set-membership filtering strategies for multipulse coding
ISCAS (IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems) · Conference
Dale Joachim, R. Salmon, J. R. Deller Jr.
2006
Multiweight optimization in optimal bounding ellipsoid algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr.
2005
Mapping speech signals to musical scores through prosodic extraction
ICASSP · Conference
Boyanna Trayanova, Dale Joachim
2004
Comparing Optimal Bounding Ellipsoid and Support Vector Machine Active Learning
ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition) · Conference
Ibrahim Gokcen, Dale Joachim, Jack R. Deller Jr.
2004
Binary Image Transformation Using Two-Dimensional Chaotic Maps
ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition) · Conference
Fethi Belkhouche, Uvais Qidwai, Ibrahim Gokcen, Dale Joachim
2003
Active machine learning using adaptive set estimation
ACSSC (Asilomar Conference on Signals Systems and Computers) · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr.
2003
Frameless processing of bird songs using set membership identification
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Rafi Mohammad, Mark M. Wilde, Dale Joachim
2003
Ellipsoid Set Refinement by Simultaneous Use of Multiple Hyperplane Cuts
IFAC Proceedings Volumes · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr.
2003
Fully Automated Remote Broadcast and Recording Stations to Survey Populations of Vocal Nocturnal Animals (Great Horned Owls)
Conference on Acoustic Communication by Animals · Conference
Dale Joachim, T. Coulson, T. Sherry
2000
Short signal classification using set-membership identification with application to speech labeling
MWSCAS (IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems) · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr.
2000
Adaptive optimal bounded-ellipsoid identification with an error under-bounding safeguard: applications in state estimation and speech processing
ICASSP · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr.
2000
Some Signal Processing Applications of Set Solutions
IFAC Proceedings Volumes · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr.
1998
OBE set estimates in classification problems
MWSCAS (IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems) · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr., G. I. Mandour
1998
Benefits of multi-weight optimization in OBE algorithms
MWSCAS (IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems) · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr.
1998
Multiweight optimization in OBE algorithms for improved tracking and adaptive identification
ICASSP · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr., Majid Nayeri
1997
Practical considerations in the use of a new OBE algorithm that blindly estimates error bounds
MWSCAS (IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems) · Conference
Dale Joachim, J. R. Deller Jr., M. Nayeri
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum columns
19 entries
2026-05-06
The return of spring sounds
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2026-01-14
The ant who looks up to plan ahead
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2025-11-05
AI reads the Carlisle's housing voices over four decades
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2025-07-09
'One Note Samba'
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2025-04-02
Gems within our midst
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2024-12-18
The elephants in the room
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2024-09-18
Consider our trees
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2024-05-22
Beyond words: reflections on language, cognition, and freedom
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2024-02-14
Leap February, leap
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2023-11-15
A two-fold Thanksgiving
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2023-08-16
Navigating the whims of nature
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2023-05-17
Could the emergence of AI serve Carlisle?
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2023-02-15
Reflections on Black History Month
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2022-11-09
My one percent
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2022-08-10
Bluebird at the window
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2022-05-04
Being there in Carlisle and beyond
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2022-02-02
It's often about the journey
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2021-11-17
Carlisle, where?
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
2021-04-08
Why Carlisle mosquitoes buzz in our ears
The Carlisle Mosquito · Forum column
Coverage of the Owl Project
9 entries
2006-04-18
Researcher makes call to help wildlife
MIT News · Article · Sarah H. Wright
Profile when Joachim arrived at MIT as MLK Visiting Professor; introduces the cellphone-based wildlife monitoring idea (Louisiana swallow-tailed kite mentioned).
2007-02-01
Dale Joachim: The Bird Whisperer
IEEE Spectrum · Article (Dream Jobs 2007) · Willie D. Jones
Featured profile in the magazine's annual "Dream Jobs" issue; describes the cellphone Owl Project method.
2007-06-29
Hoo's Calling
Living on Earth (Public Radio / PRI) · Audio (radio segment) · Willie D. Jones (reporter); Steve Curwood (host)
Field-recorded segment in Central Connecticut with Joachim and screech owls; produced courtesy of IEEE Spectrum.
2007-08-22
On the use of cellular telephony for audio interaction with animals
Biology Letters (Royal Society) · Peer-reviewed article · Dale Joachim; Eben Goodale
Primary research paper documenting the Owl Project method; published online 22 Aug 2007 (issue Dec 2007).
2007-09-07
Scientists talk to owls on cell phones
NBC News · Article · NBC News staff
Wide-reach US news write-up of the Joachim/Goodale Biology Letters paper.
2007-Fall
Nothing to hoot at: Owls may sense changes in the environment - Profile of Dale Joachim
Gulf of Maine Times · Article · Lori Valigra
Long-form profile tied to the Maine Audubon Owl Monitoring Program field tests in spring 2007.
2008-02-19
Hootenanny
MIT Technology Review · Article (MIT News magazine) · MIT Technology Review staff
Short feature in the alumni magazine on tracking owls with cell phones.
2008-04-11
"Restoration and Remediation as Solutions?" Panel - Disruptive Environments Conference
MIT TechTV / Disruptive Environments Conference · Video (panel recording) · MIT TechTV
Panel recording in which Joachim participated. Source URL is offline as of 2026 (techtv.mit.edu has been retired).
2008-08-22
Call of the wild
MIT News · Article · David Chandler (MIT News Office)
Update on how the Owl Project was growing into an international citizen-scientist collaboration.