Biography
Geoffrey Chan received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. from Carleton University, and Ph.D. from University of California at Santa Barbara, all in Electrical Engineering. He was previously with Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, McGill University in Montreal, and Bell Northern Research (Nortel) and Communications Research Centre in Ottawa. His industry experience ranges from DSP algorithm to VLSI circuit design. His current research interests are in multimedia coding and communications. He continues to collaborate with industry in these areas.
Geoffrey is an Associate Editor of EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee. He served as Technical Program Co-chair of the 2004 and 2006 Biennial Symposium on Communications and 2000 IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding, and as Organizing Committee Member of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. He also served as Chair of Undergraduate Studies (EE) and Associate Head of Undergraduate Affairs at Queen's. He has held a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award.
Research Interests
- Speech processing
- Audio-visual communication quality
- Multiuser multimedia communications
- Source-channel coding
- Signal compression and vector quantization
Multimedia Coding and Communications Laboratory (Mc2L)
Teaching
ELEC324 Signals & Systems II (11W)
ELEC421 Digital Signal Processing (10F)
ELEC823 Signal Processing (11W)
ELEC827 Multimedia Signal Compression (09W)
Telephone: (613) 533-2939
Fax: (613) 533-6615
E-mail: geoffrey [dot] chan [at] queensu [dot] ca