2015年10月28日，南加利福利亚大学Shrikanth  Narayanan教授应邀在科大西区科技实验西楼118会议室做了题为“Behavioral Signal Processing: Enabling human-centered behavioral informatics”的高水平学术报告。来自信息学院部分感兴趣的师生聆听了此次精彩报告。报告会由语音及语言信息处理国家工程实验室凌震华副教授主持。Narayanan教授此次的访问得到了“中国科学技术大学研究生教育创新研究计划”的支持。

　　行为信号处理(Behavioral Signal Processing)指的是定量及客观地理解典型与非典型的人类行为的技术和算法。报告会上，Narayanan教授具体介绍了人类行为数据采集和处理方面的进展与挑战，包括其实验室近期围绕交流、情感和社会行为等方面的行为信号处理所开展的研究工作，并举例说明了行为信号处理技术在医疗和健康等领域的应用情况。报告会上，Narayanan教授还对参会师生提出的问题进行了解答和讨论。

　　报告会后，Shrikanth教授和师生就行为信号处理的相关问题进行了互动讨论，现场气氛活跃。本次报告拓宽了研究生的学术视野，促进了国内外语音识别领域的学术交流。

　　报告人简介：

　　Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is Andrew J. Viterbi Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering, and jointly in Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and Pediatrics, and Director of the Ming Hsieh Institute. Prior to USC he was with AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Research. His research focuses on human-centered information processing and communication technologies. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Shri Narayanan is an Editor for the Computer, Speech and Language Journal and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, the Journal of Acoustical Society of America, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, and the APISPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing having previously served an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Speech and Audio Processing (2000-2004), the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2005-2008) and the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2008-2012). He is a recipient of several honors including the 2015 Engineers Council’s Distinguished Educator Award, the 2005 and 2009 Best Transactions Paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and serving as its Distinguished Lecturer for 2010-11, and as an ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2015-16. With his students, he has received a number of best paper awards including a 2014 Ten-year Technical Impact Award from ACM ICMI and Interspeech Challenges in 2009 (Emotion classification), 2011 (Speaker state classification), 2012 (Speaker trait classification), 2013 (Paralinguistics/Social Signals) and in 2014 (Paralinguistics/Cognitive Load). He has published over 700 papers and has been granted 17 U.S. patents.