Abeer Alwan is an American

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and

speech processing Speech processing is the study of speech signals and the processing methods of signals. The signals are usually processed in a digital representation, so speech processing can be regarded as a special case of digital signal processing, applied to ...

researcher. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the

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, and vice chair for undergraduate affairs in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Education and career

Alwan graduated from

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male instit ...

in 1983, and completed a doctorate (Sc.D.) at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

in 1992. Her dissertation, ''Modeling speech perception in noise : the stop consonants as a case study'', was supervised by Kenneth N. Stevens. She joined the UCLA faculty in 1992, was promoted full professor in 2000, and became vice chair in 2015. She has also served as editor-in-chief of the journal ''Speech Communication'' from 2000 to 2003. Her notable students at UCLA include Shrikanth Narayanan.

Recognition

Alwan became a Fellow of the

Acoustical Society of America The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) is an international scientific society founded in 1929 dedicated to generating, disseminating and promoting the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications. The Society is primarily a voluntary org ...

in 2003. She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008, "for contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their applications", and a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2011, "for her contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their application to speech synthesis and recognition". She has also been a Radcliffe Fellow, a distinguished lecturer of the International Speech Communication Association, and a distinguished lecturer of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association.

References

External links

Home pageUCLA Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alwan, Abeer Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American electrical engineers 21st-century American women engineers 21st-century American engineers Speech processing researchers Northeastern University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Radcliffe fellows Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America Fellows of the IEEE