Jen-Tzung Chien is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, where he is now the University Chair Professor. He received the Distinguished Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, and the Best Paper Award of the 2011 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop. He serves currently as an elected member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee.