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Resume

( Ph.D. student in SPAPL, Electrical Engineering Dept. UCLA)

Name:   Zhu, Qifeng    Age:   28 Sex: Male
Mailing:    11633 Idaho Ave. Apt #5, Los Angeles, CA 90025
E-mail:   qifeng@icsl.ucla.edu
Tel: (310) 8252177(o), (310)4976553(h)
Internet talk: talk zqf@pc128.icsl.ucla.edu
Web Page: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/people/qifeng/

Education
9/1997 --                 EE Department of University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. program.
6/1995 -- 5/1997      Institute of Acoustics, Academia Sinica, Master of Science degree
9/1994 -- 6/1995      Graduate School, Academia Sinica
9/1989 -- 7/1995      Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Bachelor of Engineering degree
9/1986 -- 7/1989      Beijing No.4 Middle School

Current Research Interests

Robust speech recognition, including robust front-end processing and robust acoustic model.
Distributed speech recognition, MFCC data compression for remote speech recognition.
Telecommunication, computer network, CDMA system, network application.
Speech processing/coding, signal processing,
Perceptual and analytical study on place of articulation on nasals

Publications
1.    "On the use of variable frame rate analysis in speech recognition", accepted, ICASSP 2000.
2.    "Human and Machine Recognition of Nasal Consonants in Noise", Abeer Alwan, Jeff Lo, Qifeng Zhu, Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Vol. 1 Page 167-170.
3.    "Nonlinear HMM model for speech recognition", Proceedings of ICMI'96 (International Conference on Multi-modal Interface), pp.103-pp.106.
4.    "Study on the VCELP vecoder" , Proceedings of the Conference for Youth Scientist 97, pp. 202, Acoustics Society, China.
5.    "A voice and data interface between the telephone net and a PC", 1994, graduation thesis.

Working Experience
6/1999-- 9/1999    Summer internship in IBM, at T.J.Watson lab, working on robust speech recognition.
9/1997 -- now      Graduate Student Researcher in EE Dept. UCLA, studying robust speech recognition.
11/1995--1/1996    LAN manager. Building a LAN for speech lab of Institute of Acoustics for both PC and Workstation together, and connecting it with internet.
10/1995--2/1997    Joining in the cooperating project with Hewlett Packard's China Lab, on speech coding and subjective speech quality measurement in CDMA channel.
7/1995-- 4/1997    Research Assistant in the Institute of Acoustic, joining in the China national 85 project on speech recognition, programming.
9/1993--2/1994    Working in the Telecommunication Division, Legend Group, writing C program for a user interface of telephone switching controller.
3/1993--10/1993    Working as an assistant in the EE Dept. of Tsinghua Univ., fabricating and testing circuit on telephone switching.
6/1993--8/1993    Working in Guangzhou Telecommunication Equipment Company, writing C program for computer remote control via PSTN net.

Teaching Experience
10/1998--7/1999 Teaching assistant in Electrical Engineering Dept. UCLA.
9/1998 Lab Assistant for the course of speech recognition in UCLA Extension School.
7/1996--4/1997 Supervising an undergraduate student on his graduate project, on pitch abstraction in speech.

Major Honors
· Yilida Scholarship for Excellent Students, Academia Sinica, first prize, 1995
· Admission Examination waiver for entering the Graduate School, Academia Sinica, 1994