Professional Summary: This Ph.D. has over 35years of industry expertise in the field of Digital Signal Processing with applications to Speech, Audio, Image and Video Processing. He spent 23 years with Texas Instruments where he became a TI Fellow, and is currently a Professor and Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at a major University.
He served as the Director of a Texas Instruments Laboratory within the Development Center in Dallas, and as a Director of TI's Research and Development Center, in Japan. From 1984 to 1990, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments Houston, Texas. He was responsible for developing applications of DSP algorithms on programmable DSP processors. He was also with the Speech Systems Research group at the Central Research Laboratories of Texas Instruments in Dallas, with a research focus that included low-bit-rate speech coding.
He is an IEEE Fellow and served as the President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was a past General Chairman of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, and was selected as a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE ASSP Society.
He is a recipient of the Signal Processing Society's Meritorious Service Award, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
He holds four patents in the area of speech coding, and has published many papers on speech processing and digital signal processing. He is also the author of a book on Speech Coding and the editor of two Volumes on Digital Signal Processing. |