All About Parham

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All About Parham by Parham Aarabi February 9,
2004
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Who am I?
Assistant Professor of ECE
Canada Research Chair in Multi-Sensor Information
Systems
Joined UofT 3 years ago
Founded the Artificial Perception Lab, or APL
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Long term vision
Technology is too complex and confusing (i.e. too
many buttons in cars)
My Goal make human-computer interactions
easier, more efficient, and more natural
Why? More efficient PDA/Tablet PC interfaces,
safer cars, less complexity
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My current research
Make speech recognition more robust by
multi-sensor information fusion
Examples microphone arrays, microphonescameras,

System implementation (FPGA/VLSI)
Example Spatial Speech Acceleration (joint work
with Prof. Sheikholeslami)
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The Artificial Perception Lab
-an experimental environment with microphone
arrays, camera arrays, -1 postdoc, 8 graduate
students -several design project, thesis, and
summer students -funded by Dell, Microsoft, CFI,
OIT
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My Big Insight Multi-Microphone Perceptual
Speech Enhancement
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My Big Insight Multi-Microphone Perceptual
Speech Enhancement
Current state-of-the-art Improve SNR
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My Big Insight Multi-Microphone Perceptual
Speech Enhancement
Big Insight Reduce Perceptual Quality of Noise
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My Big Insight
Research has led to spin-off company
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How did I get here?
B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science (Elec. Eng.
option) from UofT in 1998
M.A.Sc. in ECE (Computer Group) from UofT in 1999
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in
2001
Instructor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford
in 2001
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Things that I do
Member, ECE Student-Staff Committee
Member, ECE Teaching Planning Committee
Chair, Faculty Undergraduate Academic Committee
Program Committee member for various Sensor
Fusion conferences and guest editor for
Information Fusion special issue
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My hobbies
Research
Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award Canada
Research Chair Award
Teaching
2002-2003 ECE Club Professor of the Year
Award 2003 Faculty Early Career Teaching
Award 2003-2004 ECE Club Professor of the Year
Award
Karate
Sparring 1st place Toronto Wado-Kai
Tournament Sparring 2nd place Local Wado-Kai
Tournament
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The End.
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