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Lloyd Watts, Ph.D.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1992.
- M.A.Sc., Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, 1989.
- B.Sc., Engineering Physics, Queen's University, 1984.
EXPERIENCE
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2000-present
AUDIENCE, INCORPORATED, Los Altos, CA:
Chairman and Chief Technology Officer (2005-present).
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2005).
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1997-2000
INTERVAL RESEARCH CORPORATION, Palo Alto, CA:
Member of Research Staff.
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1994-1997
ARITHMOS, INC., Santa Clara, CA:
Senior Analog IC Designer / IC Design Manager.
- 1992-1994
SYNAPTICS, INC., San Jose, CA:
Senior Engineer and Project Leader.
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1984-1987
MICROTEL PACIFIC RESEARCH, Burnaby, B.C.:
Member of Technical Staff.
PUBLICATIONS
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L. Watts, "Visualizing Complexity in the Brain", in Computational Intelligence: The Experts Speak, edited by D. Fogel and C. Robinson, IEEE Press/Wiley,
2003, pp. 45-56.
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L. Watts, "Reverse-Engineering the Brain", (Plenary Lecture), World Congress on Computational Intelligence, May 12-17, 2002.
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L. Watts, ``Memory Cell Array for Performing a Comparison'',
United States Patent
Number 6,198,668, March 6, 2001.
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L. Watts, ``The Mode-Coupling Liouville-Green Approximation
for a two-dimensional Cochlear Model", Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, vol. 108, no. 5, pp. 2266-2271,
Nov., 2000.
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L. Watts, ``Real-time visualization of neurobiological
auditory representations", (Invited Talk) Association
for Research in
Otolaryngology Midwinter Meeting, February 20-24, 2000.
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P. Hafliger, M. Mahowald, L. Watts, ``A Spike-Based Learning
Neuron in Analog VLSI", Proceedings of the the Ninth
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, 1996.
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L. Watts, ``Event-Driven Simulation of Networks of Spiking Neurons",
Proceedings of the Sixth Neural Information Processing
Systems Conference, 1993, pp. 927-934.
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L. Watts, ``Cochlear Mechanics: Analysis and Analog VLSI",
Doctoral Dissertation, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, 1992.
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L. Watts, ``Designing Networks of Spiking Silicon Neurons
and Synapses'', Proceedings of Computation and Neural Systems
Meeting CNS*92, San Francisco, CA, 1992.
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L. Watts, D. Kerns, R. Lyon, C. Mead, ``Improved Implementation
of the Silicon Cochlea'', IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits,
vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 692-700, May, 1992.
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D. Kirk, K. Fleischer, L. Watts, A. Barr, ``Constrained Optimization
Applied to the Parameter Setting Problem for Analog Circuits'',
Proceedings of the Fourth Neural Information Processing
Systems Conference, 1991, pp. 789-796.
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L. Watts, R. F. Lyon, C. Mead, ``A Bidirectional Analog VLSI
Cochlear Model'', Advanced Research in VLSI, Proceedings of the
1991 Santa Cruz Conference, C. Sequin, ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 1991, pp. 153-163.
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V. Cuperman, L. Watts, R. Pettigrew, ``Low Delay Vector
Backward Predictive Coding of Speech'', United States Patent
Number 4,963,034, October 16, 1990. Sold in 1999 to Cisco for $1M.
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L. Watts, V. Cuperman, ``A Vector ADPCM
Analysis-by-Synthesis Configuration for 16 kbit/s Speech Coding'',
Proc. GLOBECOM, Hollywood, Florida, November, 1988.
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L. Watts, V. Cuperman, ``Design of a 16 kbit/s Vector ADPCM
Speech Coding Algorithm'', Proc. Can. Conf. on Elec. and Comp. Eng.,
Vancouver, Canada, November, 1988.
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L. Watts, ``Development of a VLSI Viterbi Codec'', Proc. IEEE
Pacific Rim Conf., June, 1987.
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