Ingo R. Titze, Ph.D.

Ingo R., Titze, Ph.D., is the senior scientist at the Utah Center for Vocology. He is the Founder and current President of the National Center for Voice and Speech. Dr. Titze received his B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D.  in Physics from Brigham Young University. From 1965 to 1966, he worked as a Research Engineer with North American Aviation and from 1968 to 1969 with The Boeing Company. He worked as Lecturer in Physics & Electrical Engineering at the California State Polytechnic University from 1973 to 1974. He then became Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, before later accepting  the position of Assistant Professor in Speech Communication Research in the Sensory Communication Research laboratory at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. from 1976 to 1979. Concurrently, he worked as a Consultant on computer modeling of human speech production in the Department Linguistics & Speech Analysis at Bell Telephone Laboratories. He is a University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Voice and Speech, having served on the U of I faculty for 40 years. 

He has published more than 450 articles in scientific and educational journals, including feature articles in Scientific American,The World and I, Physics World, Science, and a cover story in New Scientist. His book publications include Principles of Voice Production (1994), The Myoelastic-Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation (2006), Vocology: The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation (2012), co-authored with Katherine Verdolini Abbott, and Fascinations with the Human Voice (2010), which is printed in eight languages. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Singing, writing the "Voice Research and Technology" column. His research interests include biomechanics of human tissues, acoustic phonetics, speech science, voice disorders, professional voice production, and the computer simulation of voice.  

He has given invited presentations in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, The Netherlands, and across the United States. 

Dr. Titze is a founding member and the first elected President of the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA). He has administered and taught in the Summer Vocology Institute, UCV's premiere Vocology training program, since its inception in 2000. His professional affiliations include the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the American Laryngological Association (ALA), and PAVA.

His honors include The Gould Award for outstanding research in laryngeal physiology (1984), the Silver Medal Award from the Acoustical Society of America (2007), the ASHA Honors of the Association (2010), the CCM Institute Lifetime Achievement Award (2019), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (2019). In addition, he received the first Voice Foundation Award for Creativity in Voice Science in 2019 along with Johann Sundberg. That award has henceforth been dubbed the Johann Sundberg-Ingo R. Titze Award. 

In the vocal arts, Dr. Titze has presented multiple recitals as a tenor soloist, most notably The Art of Ludwig van Beethoven and Normal Rockwell and Songs and Science with his singing robot Pavarobotti.