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John H. L. Hansen, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Professor
of Electrical Engineering, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Professor in School of Behavorial and Brain Sciences (Speech &
Hearing)
Distinguished University Endowed Chair
in Telecommunications Engineering
972-883-2910 john.hansen@utdallas.edu
Biography
John H.L. Hansen (IEEE:
S'81-M'82-SM'93-F'07) was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He received
the B.S.E.E. degree with highest honors from Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, N.J. in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983 and 1988, respectively.
He joined University of Texas at Dallas (UTDallas), Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science in the fall of 2005, where he is presently serving as Jonsson School Associate Dean for Research, as well as Professor of Electrical Engineering and also holds the Distinguished University Chair in Telecommunications Engineering. He previously served as Department Head of Electrical Engineering from Aug. 2005 – Dec. 2012, overseeing a +4x increase in research expenditures ($4.5M to $22.3M) with a 20% increase in enrollment along with hiring 18 new T/TT faculty, growing University
of Texas at Dallas (UTDallas) to be the 8th largest EE program from ASEE rankings in terms of degrees awarded. He also holds a joint appointment
as Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Speech
& Hearing), as well as the University Distinguished Endowed
Chair in Telecommunications Engineering. At UTDallas, he established
the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS), which is focused on
interdisciplinary research in speech processing, hearing sciences,
and language technologies. From 1999 until 2005, he was with the
University of Colorado at Boulder where he served as Department
Chairman and Professor in the Department
of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences (Univ. of Colorado-Boulder).
While at CU-Boulder, he held a joint appointment as Professor in
the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. In 1988, he established
the Robust Speech Processing Laboratory (RSPL) at Duke Univ., and
served as Coordinator for the Robust Speech Processing Group at
CSLR.. He was co-founder of the Center for Speech and Language Research
(CSLR), where he served as Associate Director from 1999-2003. He
was a faculty member at Duke Univ.,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Biomedical
Engineering for eleven years before joining Univ.
of Colorado in 1999. Previously, he was employed by the RCA
Solid State Division, Somerville, N.J., (1981-82), and Dranetz Engineering
Laboratories, Edison, N.J., (1978-81). He has served as a technical
consultant to industry and the U.S. Government, including AT&T Bell
Laboratories, I.B.M., Texas Instruments, SPEETRA, Infoture, LENA Foundation,
Li Technologies, Sparta, ASEC, SignalScape, Hughes Research Lab,
VeriVoice, and DOD in the areas of voice communications, wireless
telephony, robust speech recognition, forensic speech/speaker analysis,
and human-computer interaction.
His research interests span the areas of digital
speech processing, analysis and modeling of speech and speaker traits,
speech pathology and voice assessment, speech enhancement and feature
estimation in noise, robust speech recognition with current emphasis
on robust recognition and training methods for spoken document retrieval
and recognition in accent, noise, stress, and Lombard effect, and
speech feature enhancement in hands-free environments for human-computer
interaction.
Dr. Hansen is the author/coauthor of 482 publications including 111 journal
and 338 conference papers, 11 books, and 22 book chapters in the field of
speech processing and language technology. He is coauthor of the textbook Discrete-Time
Processing of Speech Signals, (Prentice-Hall,
1993 [1st Edition], IEEE
Press, 2000 [2nd Edition]), co-editor of DSP for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems (Springer, 2004), Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems: Challenges for International Standards (Springer, 2006), In-Vehicle Corpus and Signal Processing for Driver Behavior (Springer, 2008), and lead author of the text
"The Impact of Speech Under `Stress' on Military Speech Technology,"
published by NATO Research & Technology Organization RTO-TR-10,
AC/323(IST)TP/5 IST/TG-01, March 2000 (PDF
[1.3MB]).
In has been named IEEE Fellow (2007) for contributions to "Robust Speech Recognition in Stress and Noise," named Inter. Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Fellow (2010) for contributions on “Research for Speech Processing of Signals under Adverse Conditions,” and received The Acoustical Society of America’s 25 Year Award (2010) – in recognition of his service, contributions, and membership to the Acoustical Society of America. He was the recipient of a
Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Research Award in 1993,
the National Science Foundation's Research Initiation Award
in 1990, and has been named a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow
for "Contributions to the Advancement of Engineering Education."
He has supervised 62 PhD/MS thesis candidates (29 PhD, 32 MS/MA), and was the recipient of The 2005 University of Colorado Teacher of the Year Recognition Award as voted on by the student body.
He is currently serving as Past TC-Chair and Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society: Speech-Language Processing Technical Committee (2005-08; 2010-13; previously elected and served as IEEE SLTC Technical Chairman for 2011-2013), and elected ISCA Distinguished Lecturer (2012/2013). He has also served as member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Educational Technical Committee (2005-08; 2008-10). He has served as the Technical
Advisor to the U.S. Delegate for NATO (IST/TG-01: Research Study
Group on Speech Processing, 1996-1998). In 2004,
he was selected as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished
Lecturer for 2005-2006. He has also served as Chairman for the IEEE
Communications & Signal Processing Society, North Carolina Section
(1992-94), previous Advisor for the Duke University IEEE Student
Branch (1990-97), an invited tutorial speaker for IEEE ICASSP-95
and the NATO Speech Under Stress Research Workshop (Lisbon, Portugal),
Tutorials
Chairman for ICASSP-96:
Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, and served
as Associate Editor for
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (1999-2001) and served as Associate
Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Speech & Audio Processing (1992-98). He
has also served as guest editor of the Oct. 1994 special issue on
Robust Speech Recognition for IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Proc.,
and organized the Special Session: Speech Processing under "Stress"
for IEEE ICASSP-99, Phoenix, Az, March 1999. He organized and served
as General Chair for INTERSPEECH-2002/ICSLP-2002:
Inter. Conf. Spoken Language Processing, held in Denver, CO
in Sept. 2002, and Co-Organizer and Technical Program Chair for IEEE
ICASSP-2010, Dallas, TX, March 2010.
CURRENT GRADUATE
THESIS SUPERVISION:
(active)
Ph.D. Thesis
(active)
Keith Godin, EE - Topic: Speech Analysis and Speaker Recognition in Adverse Noisy or Cognitive/Physical Stress conditions
Omid Sadjadi, EE - Topic: Speaker Normalization for Robust Speech Systems; Speech Activity Detection; Speaker ID
Gang Liu, EE - Topic: Language/Dialect and Speaker Recognition - advancements in back-end fusion (LID/DID, and SID)
Mahnoosh Mehrabani, EE - Topic: Dialect Classification - Train/Test Data Purity Assessment; Impact of Singing/Speaking on SID/LID
Ali Ziaei, EE - Topic: Speaker Modeling for Massive Data Corpora: Impact of Real Acoustic Environments; Prof-Life-Log Project
Navid Shokouhi, EE -
Topic: Co-Channel Speaker Modeling, Analysis, and Compensation.
Abhinav Misra, EE - Topic: Cross-Language based Speaker analysis and recognition
Lakshmish Kaushik, EE - Topic: Robust Speech Recognition - Keyword Recognition
Qian Zhang, EE - Topic:
Open-Set Language Identification
Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, EE - Topic: Distance based speech processing and recognition for Whisper based speech..
Mahdad Mirsamadi, EE - Topic: Single Mic, Dual Mic, and Microphone array processing for Robust ASR
Chengzhu Yu, EE - Topic: Speaker ID for subjects in diverse settings - (modeling speakers from Earth to the Moon)
Yang Zheng, EE - Topic: Multi-sensor based signal processing for In-Vehicle Driver Distraction
Dongmei Wang, EE - Topic: Single channel speech enhancement for cochlear implant users.
Hua Xing, EE - Topic: Statistical based frequency shift detection schemes for improved speech intelligibiity; Bandwidth expansion
Jaewook Lee, EE - Topic: voiced/unvoiced detection in noise and reverberation for improve speech intelligibility
M.S. Thesis
(active)
Allen Stauffer , EE - Topic: Speech Analysis and Modeling for Speaker ID - detection of nonlinear distortion and normalization
CURRENT ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSORS: (active)
Dr. Hynek Boril (2007-present) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
Dr. Abhijeet
Sangwan (2009-present) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
CURRENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATES/POST-DOCTORIAL
RESEARCHERS:
(active)
Dr. Seong-Jun Hahn
(2013-present) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
Dr. Taufiq Hasan Al Banna (2013-present) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
CURRENT LAB MANAGER - Cochlear Implant Group (CRSS)
Mr. Hussnain Ali (2012-present) - overseeing logistics for Cochlear Implant signal processing group
CURRENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATES/POST-DOCTORIAL
RESEARCHERS: (active)
Dr.Oldooz Hazrati: (2012-present) Cochlear Implant Group (CRSS) - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
Dr. Nirmal Srinivasan: (2012-present) Cochlear Implant Group (CRSS) - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
Dr. Feng Hong (2012-present) Cochlear Implant Group (CRSS) - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
PAST SUPERVISION
GRADUATE
THESIS SUPERVISION:
(completed)
2013
Dr. Amardeep Sathyanarayana, |