Dr. Les Atlas, Ph.D. E.E.

Dr. Atlas is a professor at the University of Washington’s Department of Electrical Engineering. He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of signal processing and acoustic signal classification, and he is one of the world’s leading authorities on acoustic coupling. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1984, and has been at the University of Washington since then. Dr. Atlas’ recent research has focused on modulation spectra and acoustic signal processing. He has published over 100 articles in refereed technical journals, and he is a Fellow of the IEEE for “For contributions to time-varying spectral analysis and acoustical signal processing.”

Dr. Atlas received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award earlier in his career, and he was a recipient of a Fulbright Research Award for study at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. He has served as the General Chair of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Theory and Methods, and is a member at large of the Signal Processing Society’s Board of Governors.

Dr. Atlas resides in Seattle with his wife and daughter. He is an avid cyclist, and a captivating teller of engaging stories.