Yi-Wen Liu
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Curricular Vitae (Updated Oct. 2008)

Education  

Jan 2006

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (E.E.), Stanford University, CA, USA

June 2000

M.S. E.E., Stanford University

June 1996

B.S. E.E., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

   
Experience: RESEARCH

Currently

Research and Computing Engineer, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
(1) Maintaining and developing software for measurement of middle ear acoustic responses. Participating in a technology transfer project funded by US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Project completed Dec. 2007. Manuscripts are being prepared. Mentor: Dr. Douglas Keefe.
(2) Computer modeling of cochlea electromechanics: Wave propagation and amplification. Project funded by NIH currently. Mentor: Dr. Stephen Neely.

2002-2005

Dissertation: “Audio Watermarking through Parametric Signal Representations.”
Invented, implemented, and evaluated an audio watermarking scheme based on sine + noise signal decomposition. The scheme demonstrates robust and transparent data hiding at about 5-10 bits per second.  It also shows potential in meta data hiding for the purpose of sound source segregation, a novel application previously unexplored in the watermarking literature. 
Advisors: Dr. Julius Smith and Dr. Marina Bosi.

2001

Summer Internship, AT&T Research Labs, Middletown, New Jersey. 
Developed signal processing algorithms for acoustic echo cancellation.  Mentors: Dr. Larry Jackel and Dr. Richard Howard. 

2000

Summer Internship, VerbalTek Inc., San Jose, CA.
Conducted research in signal classification for speech recognition in noisy environment.
Mentor: Dr. Yoon Kim.

   
 

TEACHING

2003-2004

Teaching Assistant, Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University.
Held weekly lab sessions on software for music analysis, typesetting, and creation, in Windows, DOS, and UNIX/Linux platforms. Gave instruction on UNIX pipelining and regular expressions. 
Mentor: Prof. Eleanor Selfrige-Field and Dr. Craig Sapp.

2001-2002

Teaching Assistant, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University.
Held weekly lab sessions, helped design homework and programming assignment in MATLAB, helped students build from scratch a perceptual audio coder to work at 96 kbits/sec/channel or higher data rates. 
Mentors: Prof. Julius Smith and Prof. Marina Bosi.

   
Fellowships, Honors, and Awards
2004 Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Scholarship
Awarded by the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, to selected students in China, Taiwan, and the US, pursuing a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
1998-2001 Stanford Graduate Fellowship
Full-tuition and stipend support to students pursuing a doctoral degree in the sciences and engineering.
1992-1996

President’s Award, National Taiwan University, (5 times)
Given to students with top 5% grade point average each semester.

   
Memberships and Activities

2006-now

Associate member, The Association for Research in Otolaryngology

2006

Sponsored member, The American Association for the Advancement of Science

2000-now

Member, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

2001-now

Reviewer, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transaction on Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics and Security, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Iranian Journal on Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE); International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2006, International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) 2005.

   
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