Hui-Ling Lu Email: vickylu@ccrma.stanford.edu http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~vickylu <<>> Developing signal processing algorithms for multimedia applications <<>> * Fluent in C/C++ computer languages. * Development experience in text-independent speaker recognition baseline system at SRI International Speech Technology Group. * Knowledge of audio coding, speech processing/recognition/synthesis, sound spatial localization, auditory scene analysis, computer vision, image processing, MPEG, DSP, neural network and machine learning. * Solid academic background on signal processing, optimization, statistical learning and linear/nonlinear system theory. * Ph.D. thesis on "Toward a high-quality singing synthesizer with vocal texture control." In this thesis, a high-quality singing voice synthesizer is proposed with its associated analysis procedure to retrieve model parameters from desired voices. An intuitive parametric model is also developed to control vocal textures of the synthetic voices ranging from "pressed", to "normal", to "breathy" phonation. <<>> STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA. Ph.D. Electrical Engineering expected, 07/2002. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA MSEE Electrical Engineering, 9/94-2/96. NATIONAL CHIAO-TUNG UNIVERSITY, Hsinchu, Taiwan. B.S. Control Engineering, 9/89-6/93. <<>> CCRMA (center for computer research at acoustics and music), STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, 4/97- present. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Working on high-quality singing voice synthesis project at DSP group. CCRMA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, 4/01-6/01 & 4/98 - 6/98. TEACHING ASSISTANT: Assisted in the "Signal Processing Methods in Musical Acoustics" course (MUS421) CCRMA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, 1/01 - 3/01. TEACHING ASSISTANT: Assisted in the "Perceptual Audio Coding" course (MUS422). GIGABEAT INC., Palo Alto, CA, 6/00-9/00. SUMMER INTERN ENGINEER: Assisted in the song similarity machine listening project. SPEECH GROUP, NTT BASIC RESEARCH LAB, JAPAN, 10/98-11/98. VISITING SCHOLAR: Collaborated in building the physical glottal model for human voice production system. ENGINEERING SCHOOL, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, 6/98-9/98 & 6/95-9/95. TEACHING ASSISTANT: Assisted in the control system design course (E105). SPEECH TECHNOLOGY GROUP, SRI INTERNATIONAL, Menlo Park, CA, 6/97-9/97. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Worked on the project "Robust text-independent Speaker Recognition over Telephone Channels". Assisted in constructing the theoretical framework and implemented the baseline system. DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, 3/96-4/97. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Worked on the project "Automatic Aircraft Landing via LAAS system" at the Global Positioning System lab. RICOH SILICON VALLEY, Menlo park, CA, 6/95-1/96. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Worked on the project "Speechreading and Boltzmann Zippers: Beyond HMMs for Speech Recognition" INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, ACADEMIA SINICA, Taipei, Taiwan, 6/93 - 9/94. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Performed research on robotics and computer vision at the Robotics Lab. CONTROL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, NATIONAL CHIAO-TUNG UNIVERSITY, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2/93-6/93. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Gave a series of talks on the topic "the Application of Neural Network on Speech Processing" in Prof. Fu-Chuang Chen's research group. <<>> "Estimating Glottal Aspiration Noise via Wavelet Thresholding and Best Basis Thresholding," Proc. IEEE Workshop on application of signal processing to audio and acoustics, 2001. "Glottal source modeling for singing voice," Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC-00, Berlin), pp. 90-97, 2000. "Joint estimation of vocal tract filter and glottal source waveform via convex optimization," Proc. IEEE Workshop on application of signal processing to audio and acoustics, pp. 79-82, 1999. "Search the Model Parameters of the Articulatory Singing Voice Synthesizer via Genetic Algorithm," Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming at Stanford, CA: Stanford University Bookstore (ISBN 0-18-212568-8), Apr. 1998. "Speechreading and Boltzmann Zippers: Beyond HMMs for Speech Recognition," Machines that Learn Workshop (SnowBird UT), Apr. 1996. "A Neural Based Fuzzy Logic Control System with Applications on Compliant Robot Control," Proceedings of SPIE Int. Conf. On Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII, Boston, Oct. 1994. <<>> Computer Language: C++, C, Java, Perl, Lisp, Pascal, Basic, Assembly. Operating Systems: Win9x/Win2000, Linux, UNIX, Mac, and SGI. Simulator: MATLAB, Mathematica.