Prof. Abeer Alwan received her Ph.D. in EECS from MIT in 1992. Since then, she has been with the ECE department at UCLA where she is a Distinguished Professor, established the Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory, and has served as Vice Chair for the ECE Undergraduate and Graduate affairs. Dr. Alwan is a recipient of several awards including: NSF Research Initiation, NIH FIRST, UCLA-TRW Excellence in Teaching, Okawa Foundation Award in Telecommunication, and Engineer’s Council Educator Award. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE, and International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). She was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Distinguished Lecturer for ISCA, co-Editor in Chief of Speech Communication, Chair of the IEEE Flanagan Committee, Vice Chair of the IEEE Awards committee, and an elected member of the Board of Governers of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.