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John H. L. Hansen, Ph.D.
Department Head and Professor inDepartment
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. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983 and 1988, respectively.
He is presently Department Head and Professor
of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Erik Jonsson School
of Engineering & Computer Science, University
of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He also holds a joint appointment
as Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Speech
& Hearing). He holds the University Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications
Engineering. At UTD, 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 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, 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 340 journal
and conference papers, books, and book chapters in the field of
speech processing, and is coauthor of the textbook Discrete-Time
Processing of Speech Signals, (Prentice-Hall,
1993 [1st Edition], IEEE
Press, 2000 [2nd Edition]). He is 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]). He was the recipient of a
Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Research Award in 1993,
a 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 was Named IEEE
Fellow for contributions to 'Robust Speech Recognition in Stress
and Noise," serving as member of IEEE Signal Processing Society
- Speech Technical Committee, and member of IEEE Signal Processing
Society - Educational Technical Committee, and has served as Technical
Advisor to the U.S. Delegate for NATO (IST/TG-01: Research Study
Group on Speech Processing, 1996-1998). He was elected and is serving
as Chair-Elect for the IEEE Signal Processing Society - Speech Technical
Committee (2010), and will serve as Chair from 2011-2013. 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. He is serving on the IEEE Signal Processing Speech
Processing Technical Committee (2006-2008; 2009-2011), and the IEEE
Signal Processing Educational Technical Committee (2005-2007; 2008-2010)).
He is also serving as Co-organizer (with Scott Douglas, SMU) and
Technical Program Chair for IEEE
ICASSP-2010, Dallas, TX, March 2010.
CURRENT GRADUATE
THESIS SUPERVISION:
(active)
Ph.D. Thesis
(active)
 Chi (Leo) Zhang, EE - Topic:
Speech Analysis and Detection of Whispered Speech
Jun-Won Suh, EE - Topic: In-Set
Speaker Recognition based on Cohort Modeling & SVMs
Yun Lei, EE - Topic: Unsupervised
Dialect Modeling & Recognition
Mahnoosh Mehrabani, EE
- Topic: Dialect Classification - Train/Test Data Purity Assessment
Tao Yu, EE - Topic: Speech System
Normalization via Array Processing for Noise and Channel Effects.
Xing Fan, EE - Topic: Modeling
and Normalization of Whispered Speech
Taufiq Hasan Al Banna, EE -
Topic: Channel and Noise Normalization for Speaker Recognition
Gang Liu, EE - Topic: Voice
Normalization for Dialect Modeling and Classification
Omid Sadjadi, EE - Topic: Voice
Normalization for Synthesis
Keith Godin, EE - Topic: Speech
Analysis and Modeling of Speakers under Cognitive/Physical Stress
(Erik Jonsson School Scholar)
Matthew R. Leonard, EE - Topic:
In-Set Speaker Recognition -- Noise Modeling (Erik Jonsson
School Scholar) [on Leave]
M.S. Thesis
(active)
 Xuebo(Jamie) Yang, EE - Topic:
Multi-Modal In-Vehicle Modeling for Driver Behavior
CURRENT POST-DOCTORIAL
RESEARCHERS:
(active)
Dr. Wooil Kim
(2005-present) [2007: Promoted to Assistant Research
Professor] CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
Dr. Hynek Boril
(2007-present) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
Dr. Pinar Boyraz
(2008-present) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
Dr. Abhijeet
Sangwan (2009-present) CRSS - Univ. of Texas - Dallas
PAST SUPERVISION
GRADUATE
THESIS SUPERVISION:
(completed)
2009
Murat Akbacak, Ph.D.-ECE - CRSS
2009 (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; employed at SRI International)
Sanjay
Patil, Ph.D.-EE
-CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas,
employed as Assistant Prof., Pune, India)
Abhijeet Sangwan,
Ph.D.-EE -CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Employed as
Post-Doctorial Researcher CRSS-UTD)
Nitish Krishnamurthy, Ph.D.-EE
-CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Employed at Texas Instruments)
Keith Godin,
M.S.-EE
-CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; continued
on for Ph.D. CRSS-UTD
(Erik Jonsson School Scholar)
Abhishek Kumar,
M.S.-EE
-CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; continued
on for Ph.D. in machine learning - Univ. of
Utah)
Mahnoosh
Mehrabani, M.S.-EE
-CRSS 2009 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; continued
on for Ph.D. CRSS-UTD)
2008
Amardeep
Sathyanarayana, M.S.-EE
-CRSS 2008 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; internship at NEC; internship
at Texas Instruments)
Aravind
Chandrasekaran, M.S.-ECE-CRSS 2008
(CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas)
Rahul
Chitturi, M.S.-CS-CRSS 2008
(CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas,
Employed at EBAY)
2007
Matthew
R. Leonard, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas,
Univ. of Colorado Boulder; continued on for PhD, CRSS-UTD)
Vinod
Prakash, M.S.-ECE-CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas,
Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Microsoft Research, Seattle,
WA)
Vaishnevi
Varadarajan, M.S.-ECE-CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas,
Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Intern at Qualcomm, Employed at Caterpillar)
Amit
Das, M.S.-ECE-CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas,
Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Qualcomm Communications)
Syed
Moosa Hassan, M.S.-ITP-CRSS 2007 (CRSS, Univ. of Texas at Dallas,
Employed at Qualcomm Communications)
2006
Nitish
Murthy, M.S.-EE -CRSS 2006 (CRSS; Univ. of Texas at Dallas)
Rongqing
Huang, Ph.D.-ECE-CRSS 2006 (RSPG-CRSS; Univ. of Texas at Dallas,
Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Nuance Communicatoins)
2005
Ayako
Ikeno, Ph.D.-Linguistics/Cognitive Sciences-RSPG 2005 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ.
of Colorado Boulder; Employed at CRSS - UTD)
Sharmistha
(Das) Gray, Ph.D.-SLHS-RSPG 2005 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado
Boulder; Employed at Infoture)
Xianxian
Zhang, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPG 2005 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder;
Employed at Texas Instruments)
Umit Yapanel, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPG
2005 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Infoture,
Inc.)
2004
Sepideh Baghaii, M.S.
-ECE-RSPG 2004 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
Pongtep Angkititrakul, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPG
2004 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at Eliza, Inc.)
Shonan Noronha, M.S.
-ECE-RSPG 2004 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at
Tucker-Davis Industries)
2003
Rongqing Huang, M.S. -ECE-RSPG
2003 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
Ajay Natarajan, M.S. -ECE-RSPG
2003 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Employed at VoiceLog)
Murat Akbacak, M.S. -ECE-RSPG
2003 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
Mandar Rahurkar, M.S. -ECE-RSPG
2003 (RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
Bowen Zhou, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPG 2003
(RSPG-CSLR,Univ. of Colorado Boulder; employed at IBM-Yorktown Heights)
2002
Vinod Radhakrishnan, M.S.-ECE-RSPG
2002 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
2001
Angie Chevalier, M.A.-SLHS-RSPG
2001 (Audiology)
Ruhi Sarikaya, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
2001 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; employed at IBM-Yorktown
Heights)
2000
David Chappell, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
2000 (employed at North Carolina State Univ.; LipSinc)
1999
Guogun Zhou, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
1999 (RSPG-CSLR, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; employed at INTEL)
1998
Bryan L. Pellom, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
1998 (RSPG-CSLR, employed at Univ. of Colorado Boulder)
1996
Brian D. Womack, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
1996 (employed at Comprehensive Technologies, Philips Digital Video
Systems)
Sahar E. Bou-Ghazale, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
1996 (employed at Duke University; Rockwell International; Conexant
Technologies)
Levent M. Arslan, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
1996 (employed at Texas Instruments; Entropic Research Lab; Bogazici
University)
Bryan Pellom, M.S.-ECE-RSPL
1996 (continued at RSPL for PhD)
Eric Wallen, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1996
(I.B.M.; Sparta)
1995
Liliana Gavidia-Ceballos, Ph.D.-BME-RSPL
1995 (Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela)
1994
Doug A. Cairns, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
1994 (I.B.M.; Ericcson Wireless)
Tony L. Yao, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1994
(Phillips Electronics)
1993
Levent M. Arslan, M.S.-ECE-RSPL
1993 (continued at RSPL for PhD)
Sahar E. Bou-Ghazale, M.S.-ECE-RSPL
1993 (continued at RSPL for PhD)
S. Nandkumar, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
1993 (Lockheed-Martin; Hughes Networking Systems)
Tun-Wen Pai, Ph.D.-ECE-RSPL
1993 (Taiwan National Telephone Co., Van-Nunh Institute Technology,
Taiwan)
1992
Greg Clary, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1992
(I.B.M., Yorktown Heights)
1991
Doug Cairns, M.S.-ECE-RSPL 1991
(I.B.M., continued at RSPL for PhD)
Oscar N. Bria, M.S.-ECE-RSPL
1991 (instructor, University of Argentina)
POST-DOCTORIAL
RESEARCHERS:
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. Sulyman Amunda (Nigeria)
Dr.
Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya University, Japan)
Dr.
H. Abut (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Dr.
Alfonso Ortega (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Nicolas
Morales (HCTLab-Escuela Politécnica Superior, Univ. Autónoma,
Madrid, Spain)
Karsten
Sorensen (Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)
Dr.
Tom Backstrom (Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki,
Finland)
Dr. Mikko Kurimo (Helsinki University of Technology,
Helsinki, Finland)
Dr.
Jesper Jensen (Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)
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)
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