Dr. Biing Juang

Biography

Professor Juang received his undergraduate degree from National Taiwan University in 1973, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He subsequently joined the Acoustics Research Department of Bell Laboratories, where he worked in the area of speech coding and recognition. He became the Director of Acoustics Speech Research at Bell Labs in 1996 and later the Director of Multimedia Technologies Research at Avaya Labs (a spin-off of Bell Labs) in 2001, focusing on speech and multimedia communication research. He led the team accredited with major inventions including the electret microphone and network echo canceller, as well as key algorithms for signal modeling and automatic speech recognition. His work has contributed to the development of speech server applications for AT&T's advanced 800 calls Moviefone. Recent innovations by Professor Juang include the world's first real-time full-duplex hands-free stereo teleconferencing system. He holds 20 patents and has published extensively, with a notable publication being the textbook “Fundamentals of Speech Recognition,” co-authored with L.R. Rabiner.

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