Biing-Hwang Fred Juang

Prof. Biing-Hwang Fred Juang is the Motorola Foundation Chair Professor and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has held honorary positions at multiple universities and has an extensive background in speech processing and signal modeling.

• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
• Former Director of Acoustics and Speech Research at Bell Labs (1996-2001)
• Contributions include vector quantization, robust vocoders, and discriminative methods in machine learning

Research Interests: His work spans speech recognition, data compression, secure communication, and deep learning. He pioneered accretionary learning methods that emulate human cognition in neural networks.

Scientific Awards:

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (1998)
• IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000)
• IEEE Fellow (1991), Bell Labs Fellow (1999)
• Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (2004)
• Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2014)
• IEEE Field Award in Audio, Speech and Acoustics (2014)

Publications & Patents: Co-authored the seminal book "Fundamentals of Speech Recognition" with L.R. Rabiner and holds about two dozen patents.