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FACULTY NEWS

Fred Jelinek was honored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) that named him to be one of the association's twelve inaugural Fellows.

Fred Jelinek was awarded the Statutary Prize of the city of Kladno (Czech Republic) for his contributions to science.

CLSP faculty member Carey E. Priebe was one of six university professors to be named National Security Science and Engineering Fellows. more information »

Sanjeev Khudanpur was promoted to tenured Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering on April 30.

WELCOME NEW FACULTY

CLSP welcomes Mounya Elhilali, a recent Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellow from the University of Maryland, who became an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in January 2008. Elhilali's research interests include the study of auditory perception and learning, adaptive plasticity in auditory processing, as well as modeling work that relates neurophysiological findings of auditory processing to various signal processing applications, including assessment of speech intelligibility, computational auditory scene analysis and auditory streaming.

CLSP welcomes Prof. Hynek Hermansky. Hynek joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as a full time Professor, starting Fall 2008. Hynek has an expertise im speech processing, signal processing and human sensory perception. Prior to joining CLSP, Hynek was the director of research at the IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland, and the professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL).

STUDENT NEWS

Yi Su successfully defended his dissertation titled 'Knowledge Integration Into Language Models: A Random Forest Approach' on May 9th 2009. Yi is a student of Prof. Fred Jelinek.

Arnab Ghoshal successfully defended his dissertation titled 'Modeling Data-source Variability for Content-based Video Retrieval Using Hidden Markov Models' on Feb 23rd 2009. Arnab is a student of Prof. Sanjeev Khudanpur.

Erin Fitzgerald successfully defended her thesis titled 'Reconstructing Spontaneous Speech' on Jan 19th 2009. Erin is a student of Prof. Fred Jelinek.

Roy Tromble successfully defended his thesis "Search and Learning for the Linear Ordering Problem with an Application to Machine Translation" on Oct 8, 2008. Roy is a student of Prof. Eisner.

Jia Cui successfully defended her thesis "Integrating Linguistic and Statistical Knowledge in Language Modeling" on April 22, 2008. Jia is a student of Prof. Jelinek.