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Shrikanth Narayanan

Niki and Max Nikias Chair and University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and Pediatrics
Shrikanth Narayanan
Email shri@sipi.usc.edu Office Phone (213) 740-6432

Center, Institute & Lab Affiliations

  • Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory,
  • Signal and Image Processing Institute,
  • USC Phonetics and Phonology Group,

Biography

Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan received his M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D., all in electrical engineering, from UCLA in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively, and his bachelor of engineering in electrical engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy (Chennai, India) in 1988. From 1995-2000 he was with AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park and AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill–first as a Senior Member and later as a Prinicipal Member of its Techncial Staff. Currently he is University Professor and holder of the Niki and Max Nikias Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern...

Education

  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, UCLA, 1/1995
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering, UCLA, 1/1990

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Senior Member / Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park (formerly AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill), 01/01/1995 – 01/01/2000

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Human Communication and Information Processing: Theory & Applications of Signal Processing, Information/Estimation theory, Statistical Systems Modeling
    • Speech and Language Processing & Automatic Speech Recognition
    • Speech Production Modeling, Articulatory Acoustics, Speech Synthesis
    • Biomedical Signal Processing and Modeling; Imaging & Instrumentation for Speech Research
    • Human Machine Interaction; Multimodal-Multimedia Interfaces, Devices, and Systems

    • Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2019 –
    • USC Associates Award For Creativity In Research And Scholarship, 2019 –
    • Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, Association for Psychological Science for “sustained and outstanding distinguished contributions to psychological science”, 2018 –
    • National Academy Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2017 –
    • Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, International Speech Communication Association for “contributions to speech communication science and technologies and their human-centered engineering applications.”, 2016 –
    • USC Endowed Chair, Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering, 2016 –
    • USC University Professor, 2016 –
    • Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, of IEEE “for contributions to human-centric multimodal signal processing and applications”, 2009 –
    • Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, Fellow of Acoustical Society of America for “contributions to speech production and imaging”, 2005 –
    • NIH/NSF Career Development Award, NSF CAREER Award, 2003 –
    • USC Endowed Professorship, Andrew Viterbi Professor of Engineering, 2007 – 2016
    • Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2010 – 2011
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, for “outstanding contributions to human communication science and technologies and their applications to engineering systems development.”, 2010-2011
    • USC Distinguished Faculty Service Award, 2010-2011

  • Administrative Appointments

    • Director, Ming Hsieh Institute
      http://mhi.usc.edu, 2010 –

  • Editorships and Editorial Boards

    • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2010 –
    • Associate Editor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009 –
    • Editor, Computer, Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier), 2007 –
    • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2007 –
    • Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2005 – 2008
    • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2000
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