{"223521":{"#nid":"223521","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fred Juang Chosen for Top IEEE Technical Field Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiing Hwang (Fred) Juang has been named as the recipient of the 2014 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. He is being recognized for his pioneering contributions to automatic speech recognition and speech coding and will receive this award at the\u0026nbsp;2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), scheduled to take place May 4-9 in Florence, Italy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Juang has held the titles of Motorola Foundation Chair Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar since his arrival at Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002. Previously, he was the director of Avaya Labs and held many technical leadership roles during his 20-year career at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. He has published close to 300 papers and holds over 20 patents in the areas of speech analysis, coding, recognition, and enhancements; speaker authentication; machine learning; and stochastic processes. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis IEEE technical award is the latest of many distinctions for Dr. Juang, who is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an academician with Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and a Fellow of both IEEE and Bell Labs. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Biing Hwang (Fred) Juang has been named as the recipient of the 2014 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor Biing Hwang (Fred) Juang has been named as the recipient of the 2014 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2013-07-18 14:39:54","changed_gmt":"2017-07-12 13:09:11","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=124","title":"Biing Hwang (Fred) Juang"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/gra.org\/","title":"Georgia Research Alliance"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/about\/awards\/tfas\/flanagan.html","title":"IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.icassp2014.org\/","title":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"69921","name":"Biing Hwang"},{"id":"1464","name":"Georgia Research Alliance"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}