Prof. Parham Aarabi

Assistant Professor
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Parham Aarabi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in June 2001. From December 2000 until June 2001, he was a part-time consultant to various silicon valley companies and a co-lecturer at Stanford University. Prior to that, he received the M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999 and the B.A.Sc. in the Electrical Engineering option of Engineering Science in 1998, all from the University of Toronto.

Professor Aarabi has been the recipient of numerous awards including an NSERC postgraduate scholarship as well as several other institutional awards at the University of Toronto and at Stanford University. He is the first author of more than 20 publications in the area of sound localization, speech processing, and information fusion.

Research Interests

microphone arrays (theory and applications)
sound localization
speech processing
robust speech recognition
information and sensor fusion
multi-modal information processing
vision
applications of nonlinear and adaptive algorithms to speech and image processing

Courses

Undergraduate Courses

ECE302F Probability and Applications

Graduate Courses

ECE1775S Microphone Arrays: Theory and Applications

Selected Publications

Aarabi, P., The Integration of Distributed Microphone Arrays, in the Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Information Fusion, Montreal, Canada.
Aarabi, P., Self-Localizing Dynamic Microphone Arrays, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
Aarabi, P., Mohajer, K., Post Recognition Speech Localization, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.
Aarabi, P., Zaky S., Multi-modal Sound Localization Using Audiovisual Information Fusion, Information Fusion.
Aarabi, P., Zaky, S., Integrated Vision and Sound Localization. Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Information Fusion, Paris, France, July 2000.
Aarabi, P., Robust Sound Localization using the Formant Phase Transform. Proceedings of the 5^th IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP’01), Baltimore, Maryland, June 2001.
Aarabi, P., Genetic Sensor Selection Enhanced Independent Component Analysis and its Applications to Robust Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the 5^th IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP’01), Baltimore, Maryland, June 2001.

Contact Information

Email: parham@ecf.utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-946-7893
Fax: 416-946-7162
Office: BA 4134
You may also contact Prof. Aarabi by mail at the following address:

Prof. Aarabi
Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
10 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 3G4