Yu Tsao received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Commu- nications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan, where he conducted research and product development in multilingual speech-to-speech translation systems, focusing on automatic speech recognition. He is currently a Research Fellow (Professor) and the Deputy Director at the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He also holds a joint appointment as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. His research interests include assistive oral communication technologies, audio coding, and bio- signal processing. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He received the Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), the 2025 IEEE Chester W. Sall Memorial Award, and served as the corresponding author of a paper that won the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award.