Abeer Alwan

Abeer Alwan is an American electrical engineer and speech processing researcher. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and vice chair for undergraduate affairs in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Alwan graduated from Northeastern University in 1983, and completed a doctorate (Sc.D.) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.^[1] Her dissertation, Modeling speech perception in noise : the stop consonants as a case study, was supervised by Kenneth N. Stevens.^[2]

She joined the UCLA faculty in 1992, was promoted full professor in 2000, and became vice chair in 2015. She has also served as editor-in-chief of the journal Speech Communication from 2000 to 2003.^[1] Her notable students at UCLA include Shrikanth Narayanan.

Alwan became a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2003.^[1] She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008, "for contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their applications",^[3] and a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2011, "for her contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their application to speech synthesis and recognition".^[4] She has also been a Radcliffe Fellow, a distinguished lecturer of the International Speech Communication Association, and a distinguished lecturer of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association.^[5]

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