Center for Robust Speech Systems

Oldooz Hazrati, PhD

Biographical Sketch

Oldooz Hazrati received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), in 2005 and 2008, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Richardson, Texas, in 2012, under the supervision of Dr. Philip Loizou.

In the spring of 2013, she started working as a post-doctoral research associate in the Cochlear Implant and Speech Processing laboratories (CRSS) in Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas.

Selected Publications

• Hussnain Ali, Oldooz Hazrati, Emily Tobey, and John H.L. Hansen, "Evaluation of adaptive dynamic range optimization in adverse listening conditions for cochlear implants", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 136(3), EL242-EL248, 2014.
• Hussnain Ali, Oldooz Hazrati, John H. L. Hansen, and Emily Tobey, "The Effect of Adaptive Dynamic Range Optimization on Speech Intelligibility in Adverse Listening Environments for Cochlear Implant Users", in CI 2014, Munich, Germany.
• Oldooz Hazrati, Hussnain Ali, John H. L. Hansen, and Emily Tobey, "Gender Identification and Intelligibility of Whispered Speech in Cochlear Implant Users: Evaluation and Analysis", in CI 2014, Munich, Germany.
• Oldooz Hazrati, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, and John H. L. Hansen, "Robust and Efficient Environment Detection for Adaptive Speech Enhancement in Cochlear Implants", in ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy.
• Oldooz Hazrati, John H.L. Hansen, and Emily Tobey, "Efficient Environment Detection for Adaptive Speech Enhancement in Cochlear Implants", in ARO 2014, San Diego, California, USA.
• Oldooz Hazrati, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Philipos C. Loizou, and John H.L. Hansen, "simultaneous suppression of noise and reverberation in cochlear implants using a ratio masking strategy", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 134(5), 3759-3765, 2013.
• Oldooz Hazrati, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Hussnain Ali, Philipos C. Loizou, and John H. L. Hansen, "A Soft Masking Strategy for Simultaneous Suppression of Noise and Reverberation in Cochlear Implants", in CIAP 2013, Lake Taho, California, USA.

Personnel

• Prof. John H.L. Hansen
• Prof. Yang Liu
• Prof. Philip Loizou
• Prof. Abhijeet Sangwan
• Prof. Hynek Boril
• Prof. Oldooz Hazrati
• Dr. Finnian Kelly
• Chengzhu Yu
• Lakshmish Kaushik
• Seyedmahdad (Matt) Mirsamadi
• Abhinav Misra
• Qian Zhang
• Yang ZhengShivesh Ranjan
• Chunlei Zhang
• Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad
• Harishchandra Dubey
• Ahmet Bulut
• Shahram Ghorbani
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