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Dr. Siow Yong Low is an Associate Professor and Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton Malaysia, overseeing the Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics, and Computer Science programmes. He was funded by Australian scholarships for both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Curtin University, WA, Australia. From 2005–2010, he held a variety of post-doctoral and research engineer posts in Western Australia before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University, Sarawak campus as a Senior Lecturer. He has taught broadly across the EEE curriculum, including electrical systems, circuits, signals and systems, communications and software technology.
His research expertise is in acoustic signal processing, with a particular focus on speech enhancement, microphone array processing, compressive sensing and assistive listening devices. His work centres on developing intelligent algorithms that extract and enhance speech signals in noisy, real-world environments. He has published extensively in these areas and his research has found applications in hearing aids, forensic audio analysis and telecommunications. His full list of publications can be found at Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=flF2umAAAAAJ&hl=en
Speech and hearing are the two fundamental blocks in verbal human communication. It takes two to tango and if either one fails, verbal communication collapses. For instance, conversations will be difficult if there is background noise or there is some form of hearing loss from the persons involved. For people with normal hearing capability, tackling the noise will not be a problem. In fact, with good ears, our brains are capable of filtering out the speech from the noise to a certain extent. But the big challenge here is when you have hearing impairment and environmental noise at the same time. We live in a noisy world, so the aim is to electronically reduce the environmental noise and simultaneously compensate or amplify the speech signals according to one’s hearing profile. Naturally, the processed signal must be seamless, intelligible and void of electronic artefacts. That way, people with hearing impairments will have no issues with conversations in noisy settings.
Specific areas of Siow Yong’s research interest are signal processing for acoustic applications, compressive speech enhancement, blind signal extraction, sensor array networks. His full list of publications can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=flF2umAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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