YINGYONG QI
yqi@uci.edu
858 845-7667
Current Positions:
Principal Engineer,
Qualcomm Inc.
Adjunct Professor,
School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences,
San Diego State University.
Guest Professor,
School of Information Engineering, Shangdong University at Weihai.
Research Specialist,
Department of Mathematics,
Unversity of California, Irvine.
Education:
1993 Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Arizona.
1989 Ph.D.
Speech and Hearing Sciences
,
Ohio State University.
1985 M.S.
Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1983 B.S.
Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Science and Technology of China
Experiences:
89-99, Associate Professor,
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
, University of Arizona.
93-99, Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
, University of Arizona.
1996, Visiting scientist,
Research Laboratory of Electronics
,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1998, Visiting scientist,
Computer Sciences Laboratory, Hewlett Packard at Palo Alto
.
Honors and Awards:
1988 Presidential Fellowship, Ohio State University.
1991 Klatt Memorial Award in Speech Science, Acoustical Society of America.
1992 FIRST Award, NIDCD, National Institute of Health.
1998 AASFAA Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Arizona.
2002 Research Fellow, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Math. Univ. of Texas at Austin.
2001, 2003, and 2006 QUALSTAR Award for exceptional contributions, Qualcomm Inc, San Diego.
2003 Patent, US-6671669-B1, Combined Engine System and Method for Voice Recognition.
2004 Patent, US-6754629-B1, System and Method for Automatic Voice Recognition Using Mapping.
2005 Patent, US-6836758-B2, System and Method for Hybrid Voice Recognition.
2005 Patent, US-6900809-B1, Method and Apparatus for Animation of an Object on a Display.
Research:
Acoustics of Speech Production, Synthesis, and Perception
Digital Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
Mathematical Modeling in Speech and Hearing Sciences.
