Room 66-147E Engr. IV
Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory
Box 951594, 405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
phone: (310) 206-2231, (310) 206-4304 (secretary)
(310) 206-4685 (dept. fax)
email: alwan@icsl.ucla.edu
Speech processing: modeling speech production and perception mechanisms with applications to speech synthesis, recognition by machine, speech coding, and hearing aids.
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Electrical Engineering
1992-1996, Assistant Professor
1996-present, Associate Professor
Courses:
Digital Signal Processing (EE113)
Digital Speech Processing (EE214A)
Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (EE113L)
Intro. to Speech and Image Processing (EE114)
Automatic Speech Recognition (A Short Course offered by the UCLA
Extension School)
Check out our Signal Processing and Communications Seminar
Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
1987-1990
Teaching Assistant for graduate and undergraduate courses on
Stochastic Processes, Detection, and Estimation; Acoustics; Signals
and Systems; and Introduction to Electronics.
Digital Equipment Corporation, Northboro, MA
last modified: April 11th, 1999
1990
Worked on several projects aimed at improving `DECTALK' which is
a commercial text-to-speech synthesizer. The projects involved both
the English and Spanish languages.Awards:
Okawa Foundation Award in Telecommunications, 1997
NSF Career Development Award, 1995
UCLA-TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, 1994
NIH FIRST Award, 1994
NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993
UCLA Committees:
Chair, Field Committee: Signal Processing, since 1/96
Member, Courses and Curriculum Committee, since 1/96
Member, Undergraduate Reform Committee, since 1/97
Chair, Microsoft Scholarship Committee, since 96
Member of the School of Engineering Faculty Advisory Committee
on Biomedical Engineering, since 1/97
Professional Affiliations and Activities:
Member: the IEEE Signal Processing Society; ASA; SWE; Eta Kappa Nu; Sigma Xi; Tau Beta Pi; AAAS
Elected Member, Technical Committee on Speech Communication, Acoustical
Society of America (ASA)
Elected Member, Technical Committee on Audio and Electroacoustics, IEEE Signal
Processing Society
Elected Member, Technical Committee on Speech Processing, IEEE Signal
Processing Society
Elected Member, New York Academy of Sciences
Technical Program Committee Member, Int. Symp. Sig. Sys. and
Elec. (ISSSE), Oct. 1995
Technical Program Co-Chair of the second IEEE workshop on
Multimedia, Redondo Beach, December 1998. Co-editor of the
workshop proceedings
Invited lecturer at the International Summer School Course on Speech
Processing, Recognition, and Artificial Neural Networks. Sponsored
by the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS),
Salerno, Italy, Oct. 1998
Technical Program Committee Member, 1996 Int. Conf. Motor Speech
Chair of a session on ``Microphone Arrays and Hearing Aids''
at the IEEE Int. Con. Acous. Speech Sig. Proc. (ICASSP) 1998
Co-chair of a session on "Robust Speech Recognition" at the
third joint ASA-ASJ (Acous. Soc. Amer.-Acous. Soc. Japan)
meeting, December 1996
Faculty Advisor to the Society of Women Engineers, UCLA Chapter
Editorial Services to Scholarly Publications:
Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing; IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing; IEEE Mohonk Workshop on Audio and
Electroacoustics; IEEE ICASSP; Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America; Speech Communication; Journal of Phonetics
Other Professional Activities
Reviewer of Technical Proposals: NSF Computer and Information Science and
Engineering (CISE) Directorate: Microelectronic Information Processing
Systems (MIPS) and the Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems
(IRIS) programs
Workshop Organizer and Leader at Hughes Research Laboratories Symposium,
El Segundo, January, 1997
Invited Participant at NSF panels (CISE and EHR Directorates), Arlington,
VA
Invited Talk, Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey,
Fall 1997
Invited Speaker, WESCOM, Anaheim, Fall 1996
Invited Speaker, the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), Seattle,
November 1996
Invited Talks, the International Conference on Spoken Language
Processing, Philadelphia, October 1996
Invited Participant in a NIH-NIDCD (National Institute on Deafness and
other Communications Disorders) panel, Virginia, 1996
Invited Keynote Speaker at the Joint Voice Foundation 25th
Symposium and the International Symposium on Phonosurgery, Philadelphia,
June 1996
Invited Talk at the SPIE (The International Society for Optical
Engineering) Medical Imaging Conference, Newport Beach, February 1996
Invited Panelist at a COSEPUP meeting (Committee on Science, Engineering,
and Public Policy, of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and
Institute of Medicine), Beckman Institute, Irvine, February 1996
Invited Talk, ISSSE, San Francisco, Fall 1995