Bowon Lee received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Seoul National University in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and 2006
respectively. While at UIUC, he created the AVICAR database,
a multi-modal speech database of 100 talkers collected in
a car environment. After finishing his Ph.D., he joined
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, where
he is currently working a research scientist. His research
interests include statistical signal processing on audio and
speech, microphone array signal processing, acoustic event
detection and localization, speech enhancement, noise estimation,
multimodal signal processing, and room/musical acoustics.
He is a senior member of IEEE and a full member of AES.
He grew up in Seoul, South Korea and served for the Republic
of Korea Army from 1995 to 1998 and retired as a sergeant.