Background
He is the son of Henrik Hansen (wrestler), Danish wrestling champion who won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, welterweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
He is the son of Henrik Hansen (wrestler), Danish wrestling champion who won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, welterweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Hansen received the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree with highest honors from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1982. He received the Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983 and 1988, respectively.
He is also the University Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications Engineering, and holds a joint appointment as Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He started his academic career as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, in 1988, where he established the Robust Speech Processing Laboratory, (RSPL) and worked closely with the Duke Medical Center and corporations in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. In 1999, he moved to The University of Colorado at Boulder (University of Colorado-Boulder), where he served as Department Chairman and Professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, and held a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. While at University of Colorado-Boulder, he co-founded the Center for Speech and Language Research (CSLR), where he served as Associate Director from 1999-2003.
At UTD, he established the Center for Robust Speech Systems (Center for Robust Speech Systems), which is focused on interdisciplinary research in speech processing, hearing sciences, and language technologies.
Hansen was the recipient of a Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Research Award in 1993, a National Science Foundation"s Research Initiation Award in 1990, and has been named a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow for "Contributions to the Advancement of Engineering ". He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for contributions to "Robust Speech Recognition under Stress and Noise", and has been elected as one of the 6 International Speech Communication Association (International Science Congress Association) Fellows for 2010. He was elected and is serving as Chair-Elect for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society - Speech Technical Committee (2010), and will serve as Chair from 2011-2013. In 2004, he was selected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2005-2006.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
