Nanyang Technological University, Singapore B. Eng degree with 1st class honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Thesis under Prof. Lin Zhiping and Dr. Zhang Ming, on microphone array systems for video conferencing.

Research Interests

   Array signal processing

   Speech signal processing

   Statistical signal processing theory

   Multidimensional system theory and signal processing

Working Experience

   Research Engineer, Centre for Signal Processing, NTU
Worked on array signal processing, speech enhancement and noise suppression. January 2001 to present.

   Research Engineer, Multitech Products Pte Ltd, Singapore
Worked on circuits design and signal processing. January 2000 to June 2001.

Award and Scholarship

   Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor's Award, 2001
Special Silver Award (Open Section) for microphone array system for video-conference.

   Motorola Book Prizes, 2001
For the best student in the final year examinations of the subjects E452 Digital Communications and E425 Engineering Design V.

   Singapore PRC Scholarship, 1996-2001

Projects

   Microphone array for speech enhancement and video conferencing system

   Statistical signal processing for biomedical applications, including NMR data analysis and BIAcore experimental design.

Publications

Journal Papers (2002-2003)

   Q. Zou, Z. L. Yu, and Z. Lin, "A robust algorithm for linearly constrained adaptive beamforming," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, accepted.

   R. J. Ober, Q. Zou, and Z. Lin, "Calculation of the fisher information matrix for multidimensional data sets," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, accepted.

Conference papers
2002-2003

   Q. Zou, Z. L. Yu, and Z. Lin, "Norm and coeffcient constraints for robust adaptive beamforming," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2003), Bangkok, May 2003.

   Z. L. Yu, Q. Zou, and M. H. Er, "A robust wideband array beamformer using fan filter," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2003), Bangkok, May 2003.

   Q. Zou, Z. Lin, and R. J. Ober, "The fisher information matrix for two-dimensional continuous separable-denominator systems," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2003), Bangkok, May 2003.

   Z. Lin, Q. Zou, and R. J. Ober, "The fisher information matrix for two-dimensional data sets," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03), Hong Kong, April 2003.

2001-2002

   Q. Zou and Z. Lin, "Measurement time requirement for generalized cross-correlation based time-delay estimation," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2002), vol. 3, Phoenix, USA, May 2002, pp. 492-495.

   Q. Zou , X. Zou, M. Zhang, and Z. Lin, "A robust speech detection algorithm in a microphone array teleconferencing system," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'01), vol. 5, Salt Lake City, USA, May 2001, pp. 3025-3028.