Mohan Shi: Amazon Fellow (2026-2027)
Natarajan Balaji Shankar: Amazon Fellow (2025-2026)
Eray Eren: Amazon Fellow (2024-2025)
Alexander Johnson: Amazon Fellow (2023-2024), Collegium of University Teaching Fellow (2022-2023), Augustine Esogbue Scholarship (2022), UCLA Rising to the Challenge-Graduate Summer Research Fellowship (2021), Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (2018-2022)
Ruchao Fan: Amazon Fellow (2022-2023)
Jinxi Guo: UCLA Dissertation Award (2018-2019)
Gary Yeung: Best Performance on the PhD Qualifying Exam In Signals and Systems (2017), Outstanding Bachelor of Science Student in the EE Dept. (2015) AND Harry M. Showman award, HSSEAS. (2015)
Gang Chen: Dimitri N. Chorafas Research Award (2014)
Harish Arsikere: Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award in Signals & Systerms (2014)
Lee Ngee Tan: UCLA Dissertation Award (2014)
Tiancheng Zhao: Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree (2014)
Mohan Shi, Kaiyuan Zhang, Zilai Wang, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Eray Eren, and Abeer Alwan, "Entropy-Aware Domain-Routed Mixture-of-Experts Speech-LLM Framework: A Case Study of Multi-Domain Child-Adult ASR", Interspeech 2026, pp. 4925-4929. [Best student paper award finalist]
Jinxi Guo (PhD 2019): Best Industry Paper Award, ICASSP 2024, "Effective Internal Language Model Training and Fusion for Factorized Transducer Model".
Gang Chen, Soo Jin Park, Jody Kreiman, and Abeer Alwan, "Investigating the effect of F0 and vocal intensity on harmonic magnitudes: Data from high-speed laryngeal videoendoscopy" Interspeech 2014, pp 1668 - 1872 [Best student paper award finalist]
G. Chen, M. Garellek, J. Kreiman, B. R. Gerratt, A. Alwan, " A perceptually and physiologically motivated voice source model", Interspeech 2013, pp. 2001-2005. [Best student paper award finalist]
Y. Shue, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, M. Iseli, S. Jun, N. Veilleux, and A. Alwan, " Effects of Intonational Phrase Boundaries on Pitch-Accented Syllables in American English ," Interspeech 2008, pp. 873-876. Best Student Paper Award
J. Hant and A. Alwan, "Modeling the masking of Formant Transitions in Noise,"Proc. of Eurospeech 99, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. 4, pp. 1895-1898.Best student paper award finalist in Speech Communication at Eurospeech '99.
B. Strope and A. Alwan, "Dynamic auditory representations and statistical speech recognition: Threading spectral peaks for robust recognition,'' Proc. of the Acoustical Societies of Amer. and Japan, Vol. 100, No. 4, 2788, Dec. 1996. This paper received the best student paper award in Speech Communication.
C. Long, P. Bangayan, and A.Alwan, "Acoustic Analysis and Synthesis of Pathological Voice Qualities,"JASA, Vol. 93, No. 3, Pt. 2, 2aSP9, Oct. 1993. This paper received the best student paper award in Speech Communication at the ASA meeting.