Prof. Parham Aarabi is a Canada Research Chair in Internet Video, Audio, and Image Search, a tenured Associate Professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the founder and director of the Artificial Perception Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. (2001) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, M.A.Sc. (1999) in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, and B.A.Sc. (1998) in Engineering Science (Electrical Option) from the University of Toronto. His recent awards include the 2002, 2003, and 2004 Professor of the Year Awards, the 2003 Faculty of Engineering Early Career Teaching Award, the 2004 IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award, the 2005 Gordon Slemon Award, the 2005 TVO Best Lecturer (Top 30) selection, the Ontario Early Researcher Award, the 2006 APUS/SAC University of Toronto Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 2007 TVO Best Lecturer (Top 30) selection, as well as MIT Technology Review's 2005 TR35 "World's Top Young Innovator" Award. His current research, which includes multi-sensor information fusion, human-computer interactions, and hardware implementation of sensor fusion algorithms, has appeared in over 50 peer-reviewed publications and covered by media such as the New York Times, MIT's Technology Review Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, the Discovery Channel, CBC Newsworld, Tech TV, Space TV, and City TV.

David Halupka is an M.A.Sc. student working on a VLSI implementation of a complete sound localization system. Prior to joining the APL, David received his B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Nevena Lazic is a first year M.A.Sc. student at the University of Toronto. She is the recipient of the ECE Outstanding Student Award, the NSERC summer student fellowship, Baptie Scholarship, two John M. Empey Scholarships, and two University of Toronto Scholar Awards. She joined APL in the summer of 2002 and is currently working on the Mobile Speech Recognition Project, in very close cooperation with the Trilo-Bot.

Sam Mavandadi is a first year Ph.D. student. His research interests include, among others, speech and signal processing, cryptography and genetic programming. He has previously worked on histograming and data fusion techniques for Time Delay Of Arrival estimation (TDOA). His most recent work was an analysis of efficient algorithms for TDOA. He is currently working on Array Visual Processing theory and applications.

Steven J. Rennie is a first year Ph.D. student working on probabilistic speech separation and noise removal algorithms for robust speech recognition. Steven graduated from Engineering Science (Biomedical option) in 1998, and spent three years at SPAR Aerospace (and then MD Robotics) developing the Canadarm robotic arm for NASA Space Shuttles. He completed his M.A.Sc. at the APL in 2003. His research interests include speech processing, probabilistic inference, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Guangji(Aaron) Shi is a third year Ph.D. student. He received his M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. Before joining the U of T, he has worked in the automation industries both as a technical engineer and as a software developer. Guangji's current research interests include robust speech recognition, microphone arrays, and probabilistic reasoning. His M.A.Sc. research is on microphone array based phase-error filtering.

Alireza Seyed Rabi is a 4th year Engineering Science student. He is the recipient of Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship award. He also received the Leonardo daVinci Top Competitor award and the University of Toronto Scholar award, along with a University of Toronto Entrance Scholarship, the Whealy Joseph Scholarship and the Guenther J. Frank Scholarship. In the 2004-2005 , Alireza received the Etkin Medal of Excellence. He is also a two-time NSERC award holder. He is currently working on the design of the prototype for the Robust Speech Recognition using Microphone Arrays and the DSP implementation of Sound Localization.

Ron Appel is a happy 4th year Engineering Science student. He is a recipient of the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. He has also received the Leonardo daVinci Top Competitor award and the University of Toronto Scholar award, along with a University of Toronto Entrance Scholarship. He is a member of the Dean's Circle and the University of Toronto's Golden Key International Honour Society. He is currently working on visual localization interfaces.

Arezou Keshavarz is a third year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Toronto and has been a member of the APL from the summer of 2004. She has been the recipient of the Adel S. Sedra Outstanding Student Award, and the University of Toronto Scholar Award. Moreover, she is a member of the Dean's Circle and the University of Toronto's Golden Key International Honour Society. She is holding an NSERC award for the summer of 2005. She is part of various projects in the lab, including implementing remotely controlled robots and working on various user interfaces for the sound localization system.

Danny Yen is a third year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Toronto. He is currently volunteering at the APL in integrating multiple webcams onto a single computer for visual localization. He is also responsible for any miscellaneous hardware and software sorting and installation.

Xiao Jin is a third year Engineering Science student. He joined APL in the summer of 2005 and is currently working on visual localization interfaces. He is a winner of the University of Toronto Scholar award, awarded a University of Toronto Entrance Scholarship, and is a member of the Dean's Circle.

Benedict Lau is a 3rd year Engineering Science student at the University of Toronto. He joined APL in the summer of 2005 and is currently working on Phase-based Speech Processing and the UofT Explorer project. He is also responsible for updating the APL website.

Sanaz Motahari is a third year Engineering Science student at the University of Toronto. She is a recipient of the Engineering Science Research Opportunities Program fellowship (ESROP) for the summer of 2005. She has also received the University of Toronto Scholar award, a University of Toronto entrance scholarship and is a member of the University of Toronto’s Golden Key International Honour Society.

Alfred Inacio is a 2nd year Engineering Science student at the University of Toronto. He joined the APL in the summer of 2005 and is currently implementing Interactive Visual Search with java and MFC.

Neeraj Sood is a 2nd year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Toronto. He joined the APL in the summer of 2005 and is currently working on Speech Enhancement Using FPGA.