Invited by Prof. LI Xiaodong and Associate Professor BAO Ming, Prof. Yu Hen Hu visited the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from June 6 to June 9.

Dr. Hu is the professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison as well as a fellow of IEEE.

During the visit to IACAS, Prof. Hu had given two lectures of “Distributed, Robust Acoustic Source Localization in a Wireless Sensor Network” and “Compressed Sensing and Its Applications” on June 6.

In the “Distributed, Robust Acoustic Source Localization in a Wireless Sensor Network”, Prof. Hu presented a distributed, robust estimation method of source locations using acoustic signatures in a wireless sensor network (WSN).

"Compressed Sensing and Its Applications” explained that compressed sensing (CS) was a new signal reconstruction approach that had fundamentally changed the landscape of how digital information was sampled and reconstructed.

On the day of June 7, Prof. Hu shared a one day short course of “Wireless Sensor Network Information Processing”. 

The aim of this course was to provide a broad introduction to various signal and information processing algorithms in a wireless sensor network platform.

This course was lectured as an entry level graduate course suitable for advanced undergraduate as well as graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science majors.

Prof. Hu also attended the workshop discussion of the new project named “Function Sensing Theory, Model, and Sensor”.

About Yu Hen Hu:

Yu Hen Hu received BSEE from National Taiwan University, Taiwan ROC in 1976, and MSEE and PhD degrees from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA in 1982.

Since 1987, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison where he is currently a professor.

Dr. Hu has broad research interests ranging from design and implementation of signal processing algorithms, computer aided design and physical design of VLSI, pattern classification and machine learning algorithms, and image and signal processing in general.

He has published more than 300 technical papers, edited or co-authored three books and many book chapters in these areas.

Dr. Hu has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transaction of Acoustic, Speech, Signal Processing and many other journals and magazines.

He has also assumed the office of the secretary and an executive committee member of the IEEE signal processing society, a board of governor of IEEE neural network council representing the signal processing society, and other societies and committees.