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Colin Hansen
Colin Hansen awarded Rayleigh Medal
Colin Hansen, was awarded the Institute of Acoustics Rayleigh Medal at the Euronoise Congress at Edinburgh, October 2009. The Rayleigh Medal is the premier award of the UK’s Institute of Acoustics. It is awarded without regard to age to per- sons of undoubted renown for out- standing contributions to acoustics. The medal is named after John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1842- 1919), a very versatile physicist who conducted both experimental and the- oretical research in virtually every branch of the subject.
Professor Hansen was awarded his PhD in acoustics and vibration by the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1980 and is currently Professor and Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the same university. He has spent the last 30 years researching consulting and teaching in acoustics and the past 21 years as an academic staff member at the University of Adelaide. Prior to that he was an acoustics and vibration consultant with BBN in Los Angeles, USA (4 years) and CJ Abell and Co in Adelaide, South Australia (3 years). His research inter- ests include aeroacoustics, ultrasonics, and active noise and vibration control. He is the author or co-author of 11 books, 9 book chapters and the editor of 2 books. He has also authored and co-authored over 250 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference pro- ceedings.
Professor Hansen is a Fellow and
Past President of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, a Fellow of the Australian Acoustical Society and the Institution of Engineers (Australia), a Chartered Professional Engineer and a member of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Sadaoki Furui named recipient of the James L. Flanagan Award
Professor Sadaoki Furui, has been named recipient of the 2010 James L. Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society “for contributions to and leadership in the field of speech and speaker recognition towards natu- ral communication between humans and machines.” The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing award is presented for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing.
The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium. IEEE is a world’s leading association of professionals related to electricity, elec- tronics, and other technology fields with more than 375,000 members in over 160 countries.
Sadaoki Furui received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematical engineering and instrumentation physics from Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan in 1968, 1970, and 1978, respec- tively. He joined the Electrical Communications Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Sadaoki Furui
(NTT) Corporation in 1970, and later served as a Research Fellow and the Director of the Furui Research Laboratory at NTT Human Interface Laboratories, from 1991 to 1997. From December 1978 to December 1979, he served on the staff of the Acoustics Research Department of Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, as a visiting researcher. He is currently a Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has also served as Dean of the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering from 2007 to 2009, and is now serving as Director of Institute Library.
Dr. Furui’s research interests include analysis of speaker characteri- zation information in speech waves and its application to speaker recogni- tion as well as interspeaker normaliza- tion and adaptation in speech recogni- tion. He has authored or coauthored over 800 published articles.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). He served as President of the ISCA from 2001 to 2005, and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ) from 2001 to 2003. He was an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Speech Communication from 1997 to 2001, Chief Editor of the Journal of the ASJ from 1997 to 1999, and Chief Editor of the English Journal of IEICE from 2001 to 2003. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computer Speech and Language and the Journal of Speech Communication.
Dr. Furui has received numerous awards including the Yonezawa Prize (1975), the Sato Paper Award from the ASJ (1985 and 1987), the Senior Award from the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society, and the Achievement Award from the Minister of Science and Technology, both in 1989. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Award, the
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