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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)
ball Dr. Hynek Boril (2007-present) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
ball 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, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS 2013 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employe at Texas Instruments, Dallas TX)
Dr. Taufiq Hasan Al Banna, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS 2013 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed at CRSS - UTDallas)
Dr. Nima Yousefian, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS - Cochlear Implant Group 20
13 [for the late Prof. Philip Loizou] (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed at Cambridge Silicon Radio, Michigan, USA)
[Dr. Philip Loizou's student]
Ms. Keri Williams (formerly Sulivan), M.S.-EE -CRSS 2013, (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas)
2012

Dr. Oldooz Hazrati , Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS - Cochlear Implant Group 2012 [for the late Prof. Philip Loizou] (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed as Post-doctorial Researcher, Cochlear Implant Group, Dept. of Electrical Engineering] [Dr. Philip Loizou's student]
Dr. Jun-Won Suh, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS 2012(CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed at VLingo, Inc.)
Dr.Chi (Leo) Zhang, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS 2012(CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed at Carneige Speech, Inc.)
Mr. Seckin Uluskan, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2012, (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas)
2011

Dr. Xing Fan, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS 2011(CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed at NUANCE, Inc.)
Dr. Yun Lei,
Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS 2011(CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed at SRI International)
Dr. Tao Yu, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS 2011 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed at Cambridge Silicon Radio, Michigan, USA) (EE - Topic: Speech System Normalization via Array Processing for Noise and Channel Effects).
Mr. Freddy William, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2011, (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas)
Mr. Amriteshwar Singh, M.S.-CS -CRSS 2011, (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; employed as a CRSS staff programmer - supporting CRSS engagement with SPEETRA, Inc)
2010
Ms. Xuebo(Jamie) Yang, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2010, EE - Topic: Multi-Modal In-Vehicle Modeling for Driver Behavior (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, employed as design/signal processing engineer at Enseo Corp., Plano,Texas)
2009
Dr. Murat Akbacak, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS 2009 (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; employed at Microsoft; previously at SRI International)
Dr. Sanjay Patil, Ph.D.-EE -CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, employed as Department Chairman of Electrical Engineering, Pune, India)
Dr. Abhijeet Sangwan
, Ph.D.-EE -CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Employed as Post-Doctorial Researcher CRSS-UTD)
Dr. Nitish Krishnamurthy, Ph.D.-EE -CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Employed at Texas Instruments)
Mr. Keith Godin, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; continued on for Ph.D. CRSS-UTD (Erik Jonsson School Scholar)
Mr. Abhishek Kumar,
M.S.-EE -CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; continued on for Ph.D. in machine learning - Univ. of
Utah)

Ms. Mahnoosh Mehrabani, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; continued on for Ph.D. CRSS-UTD)

2008
Mr. Amardeep Sathyanarayana,
M.S.-EE -CRSS 2008 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; internship at NEC; internship at Texas Instruments; Employed at KPIT/Ford Motor Corp.)
Mr. Aravind Chandrasekaran,
M.S.-ECE-CRSS 2008 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas)
Mr. Rahul Chitturi,
M.S.-CS-CRSS 2008 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Employed at EBAY)
2007

Mr. Matthew R. Leonard, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; continued on for PhD, CRSS-UTD)
Mr. Vinod Prakash, M.S.-ECE-CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA)
Ms. Vaishnevi Varadarajan, M.S.-ECE-CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Intern at Qualcomm, Employed at Caterpillar)
Mr. Amit Das, M.S.-ECE-CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Qualcomm Communications)
Mr. Syed Moosa Hassan, M.S.-ITP-CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Employed at Qualcomm Communications)
2006
Mr. Nitish Murthy, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2006 (CRSS; Univ. of Texas at Dallas)
Dr. Rongqing Huang, Ph.D.-ECE-CRSS 2006 (RSPG-CRSS; Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Nuance Communicatoins)
2005

Dr. Ayako Ikeno, Ph.D.-Linguistics/Cognitive Sciences-RSPG 2005 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at CRSS - UTD)
Dr. Sharmistha (Das) Gray, Ph.D.-SLHS-RSPG 2005 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Infoture)
Dr. Xianxian Zhang, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPG 2005 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Texas Instruments)
Dr. Umit Yapanel, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPG 2005 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Infoture, Inc.)
2004

Ms. Sepideh Baghaii, M.S. -ECE-RSPG 2004 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
Dr. Pongtep Angkititrakul,
Ph.D.-ECE-RSPG 2004 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Eliza, Inc.)
Ms. Shonan Noronha,
M.S. -ECE-RSPG 2004 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Tucker-Davis Industries)
2003
Mr. Rongqing Huang,
M.S. -ECE-RSPG 2003 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
Mr. Ajay Natarajan, M.S. -ECE-RSPG 2003 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at VoiceLog)
Mr. Murat Akbacak, M.S. -ECE-RSPG 2003 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
Mr. Mandar Rahurkar, M.S. -ECE-RSPG 2003 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
Dr. Bowen Zhou, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPG 2003 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; employed at IBM-Yorktown Heights)
2002

Mr. Vinod Radhakrishnan, M.S.-ECE-RSPG 2002 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
2001

Ms. Angie Chevalier, M.A.-SLHS-RSPG 2001 (Audiology)
Dr. Ruhi Sarikaya, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 2001 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; employed at IBM-Yorktown Heights)
2000

Dr. David Chappell, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 2000 (employed at North Carolina State Univ.; LipSinc)
1999

Dr. Guogun Zhou, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 1999 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; employed at INTEL)
1998

Dr. Bryan L. Pellom, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 1998 (RSPG-CSLR, employed at Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
1996

Dr. Brian D. Womack, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 1996 (employed at Comprehensive Technologies, Philips Digital Video Systems)
Dr. Sahar E. Bou-Ghazale, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 1996 (employed at Duke University; Rockwell International; Conexant Technologies)
Dr. Levent M. Arslan, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 1996 (employed at Texas Instruments; Entropic Research Lab; Bogazici University)
Mr. Bryan Pellom, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1996 (continued at RSPL for PhD)
Mr. Eric Wallen, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1996 (I.B.M.; Sparta)
1995

Dr. Liliana Gavidia-Ceballos, Ph.D.-BME-RSPL 1995 (Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela)
1994

Dr. Doug A. Cairns, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 1994 (I.B.M.; Ericcson Wireless)
Mr. Tony L. Yao, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1994 (Phillips Electronics)
1993

Mr. Levent M. Arslan, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1993 (continued at RSPL for PhD)
Ms. Sahar E. Bou-Ghazale, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1993 (continued at RSPL for PhD)
Dr. S. Nandkumar, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 1993 (Lockheed-Martin; Hughes Networking Systems; FDA US Government)
Dr. Tun-Wen Pai, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL 1993 (Taiwan National Telephone Co., Van-Nunh Institute Technology, Taiwan)
1992

Mr. Greg Clary, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1992 (I.B.M., Yorktown Heights)
1991

Mr. Doug Cairns, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1991 (I.B.M., continued at RSPL for PhD)
Mr. Oscar N. Bria, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1991 (instructor, University of Argentina)

POST-DOCTORIAL RESEARCHERS:
Pongtep Dr. Pongtep Angititrakul
(2012-2013) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas (Employed at Bosch, Inc.; San Jose, CA)
Dr. Wooil Kim
(2005-2012) [2007: Promoted to Assistant Research Professor] CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas (Employed as Assistant Prof., Inchon University, Korea)
Dr. Pinar Boyraz
(2008-2010) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas (Employed as Assistant Prof., Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Dr. Ayako Ikeno (2005-2008) [2006-2007: CRSS Laboratory Manager] CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
Dr. Pongtep Angkititrakul
(2006-2008) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas (Employed at Toyota Central R&D)
Dr. Louisa Busca Grisoni
(2004) RSPG-CSLR - Univ. of Colorado - Boulder (Employed at Starkey Technologies)
Dr. Gongun Li
(2003) RSPG-CSLR - Univ. of Colorado - Boulder (Employed at Univ. of Maryland - Baltimore County)
Dr. Sahar E. Bou-Ghazale
(1997) RSPL - Duke Univ. (Employed at Conexant)


COLLABORATORS & VISITORS:
Mr. Nicolai Bæk Thomsen:(2013) [Denmark] (Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)
Mr. Sulyman Amuda: (2009/10) [Nigeria]
Mr. Tristen Kleinschmidt: (2009) [Australia] (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia)
Mr. Matteo Petracca: (2007; 2006) [Italy]

Mr. Alessandro Rinotti (2007) [Italy]
Dr. Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya University, Japan)
Dr. H. Abut
(Sabanci University, Turkey)
Dr. Alfonso Ortega
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Mr. Nicolas Morales:(2004/05, 2005/06) [Spain]
(HCTLab-Escuela Politécnica Superior, Univ. Autónoma, Madrid, Spain)
Mr. Karsten Vandborg Sørensen:(2005) [Denmark]
(Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)
Dr. Tom Backstrom: (2005) [Finland] (Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland)
Dr. Louisa Busca Grisoni: (2004) [Switzerland]
Dr. Mikko Kurimo: (2003) [Finland] (Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland)
Mr. Jesper Jensen: (2001) [Denmark](Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)
Mr. Murat Akbacak: (2000) [Turkey]
Dr. James F. Kaiser (Bellcore & AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey; Duke Univesity, Durham NC)
Dr. James Meyerhoff (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Maryland)


Center for Robust Speech Systems, The University of Texas at Dallas