Speech Technologies Seminar 2008
July 02, 2008
Organized by IBM Haifa Research
Lab
Prof. David Malah
David Malah received his BSc and MSc degrees in 1964 and
1967 from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and
his PhD degree in 1971 from the University of Minnesota; all
of his studies were in electrical engineering. Following two
years on the staff of the Electrical Engineering Department
at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, he joined the
Technion, where he serves as Professor of Electrical
Engineering holding the academic chair of Elron-Elbit. David
is currently the Director of the Center for Communication
and Information Technologies (CCIT) at the Electrical
Engineering Department of the Technion. From 1979 to 2001 he
spent sabbaticals and summer leaves at AT&T Bell
Laboratories in New JerseyNJ, conducting research in the
areas of speech and image communication. In the summer of
2004 he was at GCATT, Georgia Institute of Technology,
working in the area of video processing. Since 1975 he has
been the Academic Head of the Signal and Image Processing
Laboratory (SIPL), at the Technion, which is active in
image/video and speech/audio processing research and
education. His main research interests are in image, video,
speech and audio processing and coding; speech synthesis and
enhancement; hyperspectral image analysis; data embedding in
signals, and in digital signal processing techniques. He has
been an IEEE Fellow since 1987 and a member of the Editorial
Board of the Journal of Visual Communication and Image
Representation since 1999.
