Aug 2010- 

Professor Bart Kosko of SIPI has been elected a member of the College of Fellows of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) (http://www.inns.org/).  INNS is the leading professional organization for individuals interested in the theoretical and computational understanding of the brain and applying that knowledge to develop new and more effective forms of machine intelligence.  INNS was formed in 1987 by the leading scientists in the neural network field, and has a worldwide membership of more than 2,000. The field of neural networks is highly interdisciplinary, and the membership of INNS represent a variety of fields and backgrounds.

Bart received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, CA in 1987, and has been a faculty member at USC since 1988.  He also has a joint appointment in the USC Gould School of Law. His research interests include: adaptive systems, fuzzy theory, neural networks, bio-computing, nonlinear signal processing, intelligent agents, smart materials, and stochastic resonance. The INNS College of Fellows is a highly selective group of individuals with outstanding research stature and accomplishments.

June 01, 2010 -

Shrikanth Narayanan was recognized for his success in engaging faculty and staff concerning issues of contracts and grant processes with a 2010 Distinguished Faculty Service Award, one of the highest honors bestowed upon USC faculty.

February 16, 2010 -

C.C. Jay Kuo Appointed Fulbright-Nokia Wireless Communications Chair. The Hsieh Department professor will teach and conduct research in Finland from March-June, 2011.

February 01, 2010 -

USC Study on Detecting Emotions in Spoken Dialogs Wins Best Paper Prize. Chul Min Lee (EE04) and faculty advisor Professor Shrikanth Narayanan share IEEE Signal Processing Society Research Honor

Jan, 2010

Congratulations to Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo to be the recipient of the Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award in 2010

November 23, 2009-

Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering Department faculty members Shri Narayanan and Antonio Ortega have been selected as Distinguished Lecturers for 2010-2011 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society (SPS). SPS Distinguished Lecturers present invited talks in their specialties at local chapter meetings of IEEE. In many cases, the local chapter meetings are held at universities nationally and internationally. This distinction recognizes their unique research contributions and communication skills in presenting their work to audiences with a broad range of backgrounds. Both faculty are members of the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) within the Department. Shri Narayanan's research focuses on signals and systems modeling with an interdisciplinary emphasis on speech, audio, language, multimodal and biomedical signal processing and applications. Antonio Ortega's work is concerned with digital image and video compression and communications.

Oct, 2009-

SAIL member Selina Chu was invited to attend the IBM Watson "Emerging leaders in Multimedia"  Workshop through a competitive selection process. She presented her work on "Recognition and Characterization of Unstructured Environmental Audio". This was held on October 8 and 9, 2009 at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY to recognize outstanding student researchers in the field of multimedia. She was joined by 9 other students from leading research groups in institutions around the country.

September 22, 2009 -

SAIL was awarded a 4-year $2.2M NSF grant to advance context enriched speech translation research. The specific application focus is on cross language interactions in health care settings. 

June 2009 - 

SAIL members Ming Li, Viktor Rozgic and Shri Narayanan part of the KNOWME body sensing networks team that won a Best Paper award at IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2009).