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I am a professor of ECE, CS and Biomedical Engineering. I hold honorary professorships at the University of Cyprus and Universidad Nacional del Sur. I co-founded CLSP (with Moise Goldstein). My research interests are aimed at understanding the fundamental limits of computation/information processing under physical constraints such as energy, as well as brain inspired microsystems for sensory information processing. I am a writer of words, a builder of things, a thinker of thoughts, and a teacher of taughts.
I am an assistant research professor of computer science and a research scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE). I am also affiliated with the Machine Learning Group. I have a range of research interests in machine learning, natural language processing, speech, intelligent user interfaces and health informatics. I use a variety of methods, including bayesian models, topic models, online learning, transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, and structured prediction. I have not received IRB approval for psycholinguistic studies on my 2 year old daughter.
I am an associate professor in the computer science department. My research focus is on formalizing linguistic structure and discovering it automatically. The challenge is to fashion statistical models that are nuanced enough to capture good intuitions about linguistic structure, and especially, to develop efficient algorithms to apply these models to data (including training them with as little supervision as possible). I may have once proved that P!=NP in a footnote in one of my papers. Can you find it?
I am an assistant professor in the ECE department. My research focuses on understanding how the brain processes and perceives sounds in noisy and complex acoustic environments, and translating this knowledge into robust sound and speech processing schemes. I own a soundproof booth. In it no one can hear students' screams.
I serve as the interim director of CLSP. I am a professor in the ECE department and I am a faculty affiliate of the HLTCOE. I work in the area of speech processing. The aim of my research is the design and development of systems that can reliably detect, identify, classify, and transmit information in speech. I am convinced that study and emulation of relevant aspects of biological systems, which are optimized by forces of nature to excel on these tasks, is the most effective way of approaching the challenge. Sometimes I wear both cowboy boots and a silver jetpack.
I am an associate professor with a primary appointment in the ECE department and a secondary appointment in CS. I am interested in the application of information theoretic methods to human language technologies such as automatic speech recognition and machine translation. All these technologies make heavy use of statistical models. I am interested in understanding the structure of such models and in estimating their parameters from data. I also organize the CLSP Summer Workshops to advance the greater research agenda of this field. I got both tenure and citizenship last year. Next up: congress.
I am a research scientist with the CLSP. I finished my PhD in Cambridge University in 2003, and between 2003 and 2012 was doing speech recognition research at IBM and then Microsoft. I am mostly known for my work on "discriminative training" of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) for speech recognition, having developed many of the standard techniques. My current interests include finding ways to represent generative models more compactly (e.g. the SGMM approach), for purposes of more robust parameter estimation, and also developing the open-source Kaldi speech recognition toolkit. Due to the Kaldi project I deal with most aspects of speech recognition technology.
I am a research scientist at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University. My research focuses on the understanding and recognition of subjective and opinionated language. I can tell you how many stars your restaurant will get on Yelp.
I am a professor in the CS department. My research interests include natural language processing and spoken language systems, machine translation, information retrieval, very large text databases and machine learning. My research focuses on word sense disambiguation, minimally supervised induction algorithms in NLP, and multilingual natural language processing. I approach playing cowboys and Indians with the same seriousness as I do my research.
