Shrikanth Narayanan

Dr. Shrikanth Narayanan is associate professor at the Signal and Image Processing Institute of USC's Electrical Engineering Department. He founded and directs USC's Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory, and serves as research area director of the Integrated Media Systems Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center. He is associate editor of IEEE Transactions of Speech and Audio Processing, serves on the speech communication technical committee of the Acoustical Society of America, and was Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Laboratories.

Dr. Abeer Alwan, a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA, established and directs the Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory there. Her research interests include modeling human speech production and perception mechanisms and applying these models to speech-processing applications such as noise-robust automatic speech recnognition, compression, and synthesis. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and recently served as editor-in-chief of the journal Speech Communication.

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