1. Some research areas:  Medicine: ◦ analysis of bio-signals, ◦ medical imaging ◦…◦… 1

2.  Speech, music, and audio: ◦ Speech recognition, ◦ Speech synthesis, ◦ Speaker identification/verification ◦ Speech enhancement ◦ Music synthesis, ◦ Music emotion recognition, ◦ Keyword spotting ◦ Echo cancellation ◦ … 2

3.  Security: ◦ Biometrics, ◦ Surveillance, ◦ Face recognition ◦ Steganography in image/speech/video ◦ …  Data management: ◦ Data storage, compression, and retrieval ◦ … 3

4.  Financial: ◦ Financial data analysis ◦ Stock market modeling and prediction ◦ …  Image/video processing: ◦ Image denoising/inpainting/enhancement, ◦ Object recognition ◦ Scene understanding ◦ Image retrival ◦ Video processing ◦ … 4