报告人：Prof. Kung Yao, Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering Department.
报告时间：2016年3月28日下午14:00
报告地点：工控老楼414会议室
报告摘要：
In this seminar, we consider three different classes of acoustical beamforming arrays. The first array uses four uniformly-spaced hearing aid microphones to perform a steerable array based on the maximum-energy criterion for hearing aid applications. The second array uses randomly distributed microphones to perform wideband beamforming based on a maximum eigenvector array for vehicle detection, localization, and signal enhancement. The third array is based on the Approximate Maximum-Likelihood (AML) criterion to estimate single or multiple acoustic sources for near-field localization and far-field direction-of-arrival estimations. This array is capable of various beamforming and nulling operations. Several wired wireless experimental arrays have been implemented for various applications. We will present some recent bio-complexity applications to field monitoring, detection, and localization of various birds and marmots. We will also briefly mention some recent efforts on reduced complexity 2D �C 3D array processing.

报告人简介：
Kung Yao received the B.S.E. (Summa Cum Laude), M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering all from Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. He was a NAS-NRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Presently, he is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA. In 1969, he was a Visiting Assistant Prof. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1973-74, he was a Visiting Associate Prof. at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 1985-1988, he served as an Assistant Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at UCLA. In 2001-2003, he served as the Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee (legislature body of the faculty members) of SEAS. His research interests include wireless communication, acoustic beamforming and array systems, digital communication theory and system, digital and array signal processing, systolic and VLSI algorithms, architectures and systems, radar system, satellite system, and simulation. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers. Dr. Yao received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1993 Senior Award in VLSI Signal Processing, the 2008 IEEE Communications Society/Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the May 2011 issue of Journal of Applied Ecology’s Editor’s Choice (equivalent to a Best Paper Award), the 2012 JCN Best Paper Award, and the 2012 IEEE Coral Workshop Best Paper Award. He is the co-editor of a two volume series of an IEEE Reprint Book on "High Performance VLSI Signal Processing," 1997. He is the lead co-author of “Detection and Estimation in Comm. and Radar Systems", Cambridge Press, 2013. He has organized and chaired various sessions in communications, signal/array processing, VLSI, and wireless radio for IEEE and SPIE conferences. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE. Dr. Yao was a member of UCLA NSF funded Center for Embedded Sensing Networking (CENS) from 2002-2012, and his research in recent years has been funded by NSF, DARPA, MURI, JPL, STM, UC-Discovery, UC MICRO, and Raytheon Systems. He also has extensive practical system experiences in acoustical sensor networks, digital/satellite/wireless/cellular communication engineering, DSP, radar system, link budget analysis, and systolic and microphone array designs.