In the spirit of sharing
B.H. Juang, Georgia Institute of Technology
The old Bell Labs was considered a gem in the scientific community and of the society for its remarkable array of significant contributions to science and technology. In this talk, I’ll reflect my experience at Bell Labs through the words of Steven Chu, a Nobel Laureate and Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration. I’ll further share with the audience several of my thoughts that are formed during my short stay in the past couple of months here at National Taiwan University; to wit, career success is to be earned with self-expectation.
Professor Juang received his undergraduate degree from National Taiwan University, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the Acoustics Research Department of Bell Laboratories, where he conducted research in the area of speech coding and recognition.
Professor Juang became Director of Acoustics and Speech Research at Bell Labs in 1996, where he directed research in speech and multimedia communication. He led a team that is accredited with such important inventions as the electret microphone, the network echo canceller, a series of speech CODECs, key algorithms for signal modeling and automatic speech recognition, and the development of an array of speech-enabled service applications for AT&T. Innovations under Professor Juang include a world-first real-time full-duplex hands-free stereo teleconferencing system and an early system for digital audio broadcasting in the United States. Prof. Juang holds about 20 patents. He has published extensively, including the textbook, “Fundamentals of Speech Recognition”, co-authored with L.R. Rabiner in 1993. Prof. Juang was Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, member of the IEEE SP conference board, and Distinguished Lecturer and Chair of Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE SP Society, in a long record of services for technical societies. Prof. Juang has received numerous distinctions and recognitions, including Bell Labs' President Gold Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, Best Paper Awards and Most Influential Signal Processing Magazine Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the IEEE James Flanagan Field Medal on Speech and Audio Processing. Prof.
Juang is an IEEE Fellow, a Bell Labs Fellow, a member of the National Academy of
Engineering, an Academician of the Academia Sinica, and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
