Prof. CHEN Jingdong

Prof. Chen received the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligence control from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1998. He is currently a Professor with Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. Prior to this position, he worked at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, WeVoice Inc., New Jersey, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, and Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan, for more than a decade. His research interests include array signal processing, adaptive signal processing, speech enhancement, adaptive noise/echo control, signal separation, speech communication, and artificial intelligence. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process. from 2008 to 2014, as a Technical Committee (TC) Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) TC on Audio and Electroacoustics from 2007 to 2009 and a member of the IEEE SPS TC on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing from 2018 to 2021. He is currently serving as the Chair of IEEE Xi’an Section. He was the General Co-Chair of ACM WUWNET 2018 and IWAENC 2016, the Technical Program Chair of IEEE TENCON 2013, a Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE WASPAA 2009, IEEE ChinaSIP 2014, IEEE ICSPCC 2014, and IEEE ICSPCC 2015, and helped organize many other conferences. Dr. Chen was the recipient of the 2008 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics in 2011, the Bell Labs Role Model Teamwork Award twice, respectively, in 2009 and 2007, the NASA Tech Brief Award twice, respectively, in 2010 and 2009, and the Young Author Best Paper Award from the 5th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communications in 1998. He is a co-author of a paper for which C. Pan was the recipient of the IEEE R10 (Asia-Pacific Region) Distinguished Student Paper Award (First Prize) in 2016. He was also the recipient of the Japan Trust International Research Grant from the Japan Key Technology Center in 1998 and the Distinguished Young Scientists Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2014. He is a fellow of IEEE. He has authored/co-authored 16 monographs and has published over 300 papers in renowned international academic journals and conferences within the signal processing field. Additionally, he holds more than 60 patents.