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Biing-Hwang (Fred)
Juang
Motorola Foundation Chair Professor and
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Digital Signal Processing Group and Telecommunications Group
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
777 Atlantic Dr. NW.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
(V) 1 404 894 6618
(F) 1 404 894 8363
juang@ece.gatech.edu
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Professor Juang received his Ph.D. from University of California,
Santa Barbara
in 1981. He had worked at Speech Communications Research Laboratory (SCRL)
and Signal Technology, Inc. (STI) on a number of Government-sponsored
research projects. Notable accomplishments during the period include
development of vector quantization for voice applications, voice coders at
extremely low bit rates, 800 bps and around 300 bps, and robust vocoders
for use in satellite communications. He subsequently joined the Acoustics
Research Department of Bell Laboratories, working in the area of speech
enhancement, coding and recognition. Prof. Juang became Director of
Acoustics and Speech Research at Bell Labs in 1996, and Director of
Multimedia Technologies Research at Avaya Labs (a spin-off of Bell Labs) in
2001. His group continued the long heritage of Bell Labs in speech
communication research, including, most notably, the invention of electret
microphone, network echo canceller, a series of speech CODECs, and key
algorithms for signal modeling and automatic speech recognition. In the
past few years, he and his group developed a speech server for applications
such as AT&T's advanced 800 calls and the Moviefone, the Perceptual
Audio Coder (PAC) for digital audio broadcasting in North America (in both
terrestrial and satellite systems), and a world-first real-time full-duplex
hands-free stereo teleconferencing system. Prof. Juang has published
extensively, including the book “Fundamentals of Speech
Recognition”, co-authored with L.R. Rabiner, and holds about twenty
patents. He joins Georgia Tech in 2002.
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