Abeer Alwan

Abeer Alwan received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 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). Prof. Alwan established and directs the Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory at UCLA. Her research interests include modeling human speech production and perception mechanisms and applying these models to speech-processing applications such as automatic recognition, compression, and synthesis. 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). Dr. Alwan is an elected member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and the New York Academy of Sciences. She served, as an elected member, on the Acoustical Society of America Technical Committee on Speech Communication (1993–1999), on the IEEE Signal Processing Technical Committees on Audio and Electroacoustics (1996–2000), and on Speech Processing (19962001). She is an Editor-in- Chief of the Journal Speech Communication.

Biography Updated on 13 May 2002

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