Our Digital Life Podcast: A series by IEEE-SPS
Our Digital Life Podcast: A series by IEEE-SPS
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As the world's largest professional organization, IEEE plays a significant role in enhancing the quality of our lives. Specifically, the IEEE signal processing society or SPS focuses on research and development of audio and speech processing, biomedical analysis, and wireless communication technologies, all of which are key enablers to today's modern society. In this series, we explore more about the works of signal processing and engage with various global speakers.
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The podcast centers around themes of audio and speech processing, biomedical analysis, and advancements in wireless communication technologies. Specific episodes delve into topics like AI-driven methods in medical imaging, with featured discussions on how innovations improve diagnostic accuracy and therapeutic approaches, as well as challenges in data constraints and solutions like FDA-approved imaging algorithms.

As the world’s largest professional organization, IEEE plays a significant role in enhancing the quality of our lives. Specifically, the IEEE signal processing society or SPS focuses on research and development of audio and speech processing, biomedical analysis, and wireless communication technologies, all of which are key enablers to today’s modern society. In this series, we explore more about the works of signal processing and engage with various global speakers.
In this episode of the IEEE Signal Processing Society podcast, Felicia Lim, a staff software engineer at Google, where she works on audio signal processing and machine learning, interviews Dr. Ivan Tashev, Partner Software Architect at Microsoft Research (MSR) – Redmond USA, where he leads the Audio and Acoustics Research Group. Their conversation explores the rapid development of novel algorithms in AI and their impact on the audio processing domain.
Dr. Ivan Tashev
Dr. Ivan Tashev is a Partner Software Architect at MSR in Redmond, WA, USA, where he leads the Audio and Acoustics Research Group and also coordinates the Brain-Computer Interfaces project. He is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, and an Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is also an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
In this episode, Dr. Tashev discusses the unique challenges of audio signal processing as a specialized domain, examining why traditional statistical methods have limitations and how machine learning and AI approaches offer new solutions. He also talks about the future trajectory of machine learning and AI in transforming audio signal processing capabilities.

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