Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Louisiana State University

Dr. Hsiao-Chun Wu is currently on sabbatical leave (August-December 2008) and serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.

Hsiao-Chun Wu graduated from University of Florida in 1999 with a Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he started to dedicate research on Signal Processing under the guidance of Dr. Jose C. Principe. Since March of 1999, he had joined Motorola Personal Communications Sector research labs and gotten involved with the ongoing research for motorola VR Lite speech recognition software. His research in Motorola included novel robust speech detection and enhancement algorithms in a wide variety of background noise. In January of 2001, he joined the faculty at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University as a tenure-track assistant professor; he became a tenured associate professor in 2007. His current interests are in speech detection, recognition, enhancement, as well as digital signal processing for wireless communication applications. Dr. Wu has published more than 80 refereed journal and conference papers in signal processing, broadcasting, wireless communications, sensor networks and ultrasonics areas. He is an IEEE Senior Member and currently serves on four journal editorial boards in the area of electrical and computer engineering.