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1992. Since then, she has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA as an Assistant Professor (1992- 1996), Associate Professor (1996- 2000), and Professor (2000-present). Dr. Alwan established and directs the Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory at UCLA. She was the Vice-Chair of EE Graduate Student Affairs from 2003-2006. She is the recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award (1993), the NIH FIRST Career Development Award (1994), the UCLA-TRW Excellence in Teaching Award (1994), the NSF Career Development Award (1995), and the Okawa Foundation Award in Telecommunications (1997).
Professor Alwan's research interests include modeling human speech pro- duction and perception mechanisms and applying these models to speech- processing applications such as auto- matic recognition, compression, and synthesis. Dr. Alwan is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and an elected member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the IEEE Signal Processing Technical Committees on Audio and Electroacoustics and on Speech Processing. 2004–2007. She was an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Speech Communication, and is a mem- ber of its editorial board. She is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. She served on the Acoustical Society of America Technical Committee on Speech Communication (1993-1999) and as a member of the ASA Membership Committee, 2004- 2007.
Emmanuel P. Papadakis named the recipient of Mentoring Award
Emmanuel Papadakis was named recipient of the American Society for Nondesructive Testing (ASNT) Mentoring Award in 2006. The award for outstanding mentor was established to recognize those people in the ASNT working to encourage others to reach goals they may have otherwise not sought and to offer the rest of the membership an example of what they could be accomplishing by acting as mentors.
Emmanuel Papadakis received a
Emmanuel P. Papadakis Grace Clark
Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is President of Quality Systems Concepts, New Holland, PA, a firm in quality and nondestructive testing con- sulting. Dr. Papadakis served as Associate Director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University and, prior to that, managed quality control research at the Ford Motor Company. He was also Department Head at Panametrics, Inc. and a member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Dr. Papadakis was the recipient of the Biennial Award of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in 1968, the 1997 Mehl Honor Lecturer for the ASNT, and the 1993 Tutorial Award from ASNT. He is a Fellow of the ASA, ASNT, and IEEE.
Grace Clark named a Fellow of the IEEE
Grace A. Clark has been elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for contributions in block adaptive filtering.”
Grace Clark earned the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Purdue University Electrical Engineering Honors Program, West Lafayette, IN, in 1972 and 1974, respectively; and the PhD ECE degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1981. Her research activities are in the theory and application of signal/image processing, estimation/detection, pattern recogni- tion and control. Application areas include acoustics, electromagnetics and particle physics. She served as a teaching
assistant at Purdue and worked in the Mariner Telecommunications Group of the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Since 1974, Grace has been with the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where she is currently a research engi- neer in the National Security Engineering Division. She has served on the technical/thesis committees of three MS and two PhD students at the University of California Davis. She has contributed more than 150 technical publications and serves as a reviewer for a variety of technical journals. She is a Member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Victor Zue will direct CSAIL
Victor Zue, co-director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), will become sole director of the lab, effective July 1. Zue, former director of the Laboratory for Computer Science, has served as co-director of CSAIL since it was formed in a merger with the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2003.
Zue's primary research interest is the development of spoken language interfaces to make human-computer interactions easier and more natural. Prior to 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group, which has pioneered the development of systems that enable a user to interact with com- puters using multiple spoken languages.
Outside of MIT, Zue has served on
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