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Qian-Jie Fu is an auditory researcher at Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles and is Director of the Signal Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory there. He investigates the mechanisms underlying speech pattern recognition in normal auditory system and electrically stimulated auditory system as well as the learning-associated brain plasticity.

Biography
Qian-Jie Fu did his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at University of Science and Technology of China, P. R. China, graduating in 1991. After obtaining his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1997. He spent 18 years, from 1995 to 2013, at the House Ear Institute, first as Ph.D. student in the group led by Robert V. Shannon, and then as a scientist. He joined the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013 as a professor. At UCLA, Dr. Fu leads the Signal Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory.

Dr. Fu's work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1997. In 2019, he was elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America "For contributions to understanding auditory perception with cochlear implants."