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Les Atlas joined the University of Washington's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an assistant professor in 1984, where he has become a leader in the field of signal processing and has been actively engaged in educational activities throughout the Pacific Northwest. He co-chaired the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing in 1998 alongside notable figures such as Xuedong Huang from Microsoft. His research focuses on signal processing, dynamical systems, time-frequency analysis, nonstationary statistics, and applications related to streaming data, acoustics, machine monitoring, sensor arrays, speech processing, and auditory sciences. He has made significant contributions to the area of machine learning, particularly in active learning, and has guided numerous graduate students who have gone on to secure top faculty positions and have made substantial impacts in companies such as Google and Redfin, including receiving multiple Technical Emmy Awards. His recent research efforts have been funded by entities like the Army Research Office and the Office of Naval Research.
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