Wai-Yip Geoffrey Chan

Wai-Yip Geoffrey Chan received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Previously, he was on the Institute of Technology, Faculty of Illinois, Chicago, and McGill University, Montreal. He also worked at the Communications Research Centre and Bell Northern Research (now Nortel Networks), Ottawa, where he acquired industrial experience ranging from embedded DSP algorithm to VLSI circuit design for speech processing. His current research interests are in the area of multimedia signal compression and communications. He served as a Technical Program Cochair of the 2000 IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding, and received a CAREER award from the US National Science Foundation.

Biography Updated on 21 June 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Perceptual Models for Speech, Audio, and Music Processing
    EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 12687, 2 pages, 2007
  2. Improving a Power Line Communications Standard with LDPC Codes
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 60839, 9 pages, 2007
  3. Microarray technology offers a novel tool for the diagnosis and identification of therapeutic targets for male infertility
    Reproduction, vol. 132, no. 1, pp. 11–19, 2006
  4. Structural Characterization and Expression Studies of Dby and Its Homologs in the Mouse
    Journal of Andrology, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 653–661, 2006
  5. Nonintrusive Speech Quality Estimation Using Gaussian Mixture Models
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 108–111, 2006
  6. BMC Cancer, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 154, 2006
  7. Variable presentation of precocious puberty associated with the D564G mutation of the LHCGR gene in children with testotoxicosis
    The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 149, no. 2, pp. 271–274, 2006
  8. Transcriptome analyses of male germ cells with serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE)
    Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, vol. 250, no. 1-2, pp. 8–19, 2006
  9. The complexity of antisense transcription revealed by the study of developing male germ cells
    Genomics, vol. 87, no. 6, pp. 681–692, 2006
  10. Application of transcriptional and biological network analyses in mouse germ-cell transcriptomes
    Genomics, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 18–33, 2006
  11. Biological Effect of a Novel Mutation in the Third Leucine-Rich Repeat of Human Luteinizing Hormone Receptor
    Molecular Endocrinology, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 2493–2503, 2006
  12. Haploinsufficiency of Cytochrome P450 17 -Hydroxylase/17,20 Lyase (CYP17) Causes Infertility in Male Mice
    Molecular Endocrinology, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 2380–2389, 2005
  13. Downregulation of metastasis suppressor genes in malignant pheochromocytoma
    International Journal of Cancer, vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 139–143, 2005
  14. Cancer Cell International, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 19, 2005
  15. Serial Analysis of Gene Expression in Adrenocortical Hyperplasia Caused by a Germline PRKAR1A Mutation
    Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, vol. 91, no. 2, pp. 584–596, 2005
  16. Objective Speech Quality Measurement Using Statistical Data Mining
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2005, no. 9, pp. 1410–1424, 2005
  17. Expression profiling of purified male germ cells: stage-specific expression patterns related to meiosis and postmeiotic development
    Physiological Genomics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 75–85, 2005
  18. A novel missense homozygous inactivating mutation in the fourth transmembrane helix of the luteinizing hormone receptor in leydig cell hypoplasia
    American Journal of Medical Genetics, vol. 130A, no. 2, pp. 146–153, 2004
  19. Analysis of mouse germ-cell transcriptome at different stages of spermatogenesis by SAGE: Biological significance
    Genomics, vol. 84, no. 6, pp. 971–981, 2004
  20. Evidence for genetic susceptibility to thrombosis in idiopathic intracranial hypertension
    Thrombosis Research, vol. 111, no. 6, pp. 389–395, 2003
  21. Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel gene upregulated early during postnatal rat lung development
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression, vol. 1574, no. 3, pp. 391–398, 2002
  22. Cytogenetic Abnormalities in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
    Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 806–810, 2002
  23. Molecular Aspects of Sex Differentiation
    Current Molecular Medicine, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 25–37, 2002
  24. Spectrum of Mutations of the AAAS Gene in Allgrove Syndrome: Lack of Mutations in Six Kindreds with Isolated Resistance to Corticotropin
    Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, vol. 86, no. 11, pp. 5433–5437, 2001
  25. Nodular Leydig cell hyperplasia in a boy with familial male-limited precocious puberty
    The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 138, no. 6, pp. 949–951, 2001
  26. A novel code excited pel-recursive motion compensation algorithm
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 100–102, 2001
  27. Fast rate-distortion optimisation algorithm for motion-compensated transform coding of video
    Electronics Letters, vol. 36, no. 4, p. 305, 2000
  28. LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR MUTATIONS IN DISORDERS OF SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT AND CANCER
    Pediatric Pathology & Molecular Medicine, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 21–40, 2000
  29. Luteinizing hormone receptor mutations in disorders of sexual development and cancer
    Frontiers in Bioscience, vol. 5, no. 1, p. d343, 2000
  30. An experimental assessment of personal speech coding
    Speech Communication, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1–8, 2000
  31. Male Pseudohermaphroditism Due to Inactivating Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Mutations
    Archives of Medical Research, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 495–500, 1999
  32. A Novel Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Mutation in a Patient with Familial Male-Limited Precocious Puberty: Effect of the Size of a Critical Amino Acid on Receptor Activity
    Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 68–73, 1999
  33. Generalized scalar quantizer design using dynamic programming
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 103–105, 1999
  34. Rate-distortion optimization of hierarchical displacement fields
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 18–24, 1998
  35. Inactivation of the Luteinizing Hormone/Chorionic Gonadotropin Receptor by an Insertional Mutation in Leydig Cell Hypoplasia
    Molecular Endocrinology, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1651–1660, 1998
  36. Motion-compensated transform coding of video using adaptive displacement fields
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 527, 1998
  37. Polymorphisms in the coding exons of the human luteinizing hormone receptor gene
    Human Mutation, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 333–334, 1998
  38. Molecular Genetic, Biochemical, and Clinical Implications of Gonadotropin Receptor Mutations
    Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 75–84, 1998
  39. Genetic Heterogeneity of Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) Resistance Syndromes: Identification of a Novel Mutation of the ACTH Receptor Gene in Hereditary Glucocorticoid Deficiency
    Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 256–265, 1998
  40. Testicular seminoma in a patient with a constitutively activating mutation of the luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor
    European Journal of Endocrinology, vol. 139, no. 1, pp. 101–106, 1998
  41. Placenta and growth factors in fetal growth and nutrition
    Nutrition, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 384–385, 1997
  42. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, vol. 177, no. 1/2, pp. 229–237, 1997
  43. Compound heterozygous mutations of the luteinizing hormone receptor gene in Leydig cell hypoplasia
    Molecular Endocrinology, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 987–997, 1996
  44. Heterogeneity of Activating Mutations of the Human Luteinizing Hormone Receptor in Male-Limited Precocious Puberty
    Biochemical and Molecular Medicine, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 192–198, 1996
  45. Genetic Heterogeneity of Constitutively Activating Mutations of the Human Luteinizing Hormone Receptor in Familial Male-Limited Precocious Puberty
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 1906–1910, 1995
  46. Biochemistry, vol. 33, no. 23, pp. 7260–7266, 1994
  47. Pregnancy specific ?1-glycoprotein in human intestine
    Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 159–170, 1993
  48. Expression of pregnancy-specific ?1-glycoprotein genes in hematopoietic cells
    Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, vol. 122, no. 2, pp. 147–158, 1993
  49. Biochemistry, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 2845–2852, 1990
  50. Biochemistry, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1033–1039, 1989
  51. Absence of a 23 KD protein in testes of testicular feminization rat
    Life Sciences, vol. 40, no. 22, pp. 2169–2173, 1987
  52. Androgen receptors in ventral prostate glands of zinc deficient rats
    Life Sciences, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 351–356, 1986
  53. Comparative biological availability of manganese from extrinsically labelled milk diets using sucking rats as a model
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 49–58, 1986
  54. Intestinal transport of manganese from human milk, bovine milk and infant formula in rats
    Life Sciences, vol. 35, no. 24, pp. 2415–2419, 1984
  55. Zinc metabolism in testicular feminization and surgical cryptorchid testes in rats
    Life Sciences, vol. 32, no. 11, pp. 1279–1284, 1983
  56. Biochemistry, vol. 22, no. 13, pp. 3237–3244, 1983
  57. Biochemistry, vol. 22, no. 13, pp. 3250–3256, 1983
  58. Determination of ?-aminobutyric acid by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography and pre-column labeling for fluorescence detection
    Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications, vol. 230, no. 1, pp. 121–124, 1982
  59. Organ specific zinc deficiency in testicular feminization rats: Hormone-metal interaction
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 630–635, 1981
  60. Urinary polyamines in preterm infants
    Clinica Chimica Acta, vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 1–6, 1981
  61. Polyamine metabolism in menkes kinky hair disease
    Clinica Chimica Acta, vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 375–380, 1980
  62. Fluorescence micro disc electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate A simple and sensitive method applicable for routine laboratory analysis
    Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications, vol. 181, no. 2, pp. 259–265, 1980
  63. Isolation and characterization of a polyamine-peptide conjugate from human amniotic fluid
    Clinica Chimica Acta, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 461–472, 1979
  64. Polyamine conjugates and total polyamine concentrations in human amniotic fluid
    Clinica Chimica Acta, vol. 91, no. 3, pp. 233–241, 1979
  65. A polyamine-conjugated peptide isolated from human plasma
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 198, no. 1, pp. 164–174, 1979
  66. Cell culture studies of menkes kinky hair disease
    Clinica Chimica Acta, vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 495–507, 1978
  67. Metal-binding studies of metallothioneins in Menkes kinky hair disease
    Clinica Chimica Acta, vol. 88, no. 2, pp. 221–228, 1978