People
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2001
Sensory information processing under physical constraints (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park, MD
I am a postdoctoral fellow working at both the Center for Language and Speech Processing and the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. I received my Ph.D. degree in 2010 from the University of Alberta in Canada, under the supervision of Dekang Lin and Randy Goebel. I am partially supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. I look at ways to extract knowledge from huge volumes of data on the web, and I use this knowledge to create intelligent text-processing systems.
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2010
Three Topics in Single-Chip Parallel Computing: Theoretical Foundations, Speech Recognition, and the Silicon Cortex (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: IBM, San Jose, CA
I am a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. My current advisors are Chris Callison-Burch and Benjamin {Van Durme}. We work on large-scale paraphrase aquisition. I previously worked with Mounya Elhilali on biologically inspired auditory signal analysis and modeling of sound perception. My research interests are data-driven paraphrasing, machine learning, statistical data analysis and signal processing. I have synesthesia and I love crème brûlée. Diacritics are delicious!
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
Exploiting Syntactic Structure for Natural Language Modeling [pdf] (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: Microsoft Research
M.S.E. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1991
Analog VLSI implementation of an auto-adaptive network for real-time separation of independent signal sources (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Army Reserach Lab, Adelphi MD
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Bitext Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
I am currently working as a Scientist at Microsoft's Speech Labs in Mountain View, CA.
I obtained my M.S. and Ph.D. from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University in 2011 and another M.S. from Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department at the Johns Hopkins University in 2010.
For my Ph.D., I was advised by Prof. Fred Jelinek and then later by Prof. Ken Church. My broad research interests are in Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Machine Learning for Speech Recognition and Understanding.
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2004
Discriminative Training for Speaker Adaptation and Minimum Risk Estimation in Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: eScription, Inc.
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2009
Translingual Fine-grained Morphosyntactic Analysis and its Application to Machine Translation (Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Genome Sciences
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2010
A Non-Parametric Model for the Discovery of Inflectional Paradigms from Plain Text using Graphical Models over Strings (Advisor: Dr. Eisner)
Initial Job: SDL Language Weaver
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
Time-Frequency Acoustic Processing and Recognition: Analysis and Analog VLSI Implmentations. (Advisor: Dr. Cauwenburghs) [pdf]
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
A Neural Syntactic Language Model (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2009
Reconstructing Spontaneous Speech (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek) [pdf]
Initial Job: The National Academies
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002
Transformation based learning and data driven leixal disambiguation syntactic and semantic ambiguity resolution (Advisor: Dr. Brill) [pdf]
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watsoon Research
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1995
On the Design of Optimal Continuous-Time Filter Banks in Subthreshold CMOS (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University, Les Cruces NM.
I received my Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India in 2004 and Master of Engg. degree in Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2006. Currently, I am a final year graduate student at Johns Hopkins University working with Hynek Hermansky at the Center for Language and Speech Processing. My thesis is primarily focussed on developing long-term signal models for speech and audio processing. I have worked as a Research Assistant in Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland from 2006 to 2008. My research interests include signal processing, machine learning, robust speech and speaker recognition.
I am a fifth-year graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, working under the supervision of Hynek Hermansky. My research interests include machine learning for speech and speaker recognition.
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2009
Modeling data-source variability for content-based video retrieval using hidden Markov models (Advisor: Dr. Khudanpur)
Initial Job: Post-doctoral Researcher, Saarland University
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, 2000
Minimum Bayes-Risk Automatic Speech Recognition (Advisor: Dr. Byrne)
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2003
Efficient spike computation and communication in biological and engineered systems (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2001
The Information Geometry of EM Variants for Speech and Image Processing (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: Microsoft Research
Ph.D. Cognitive Science, 2003
Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing (Advisor: Dr. Smolensky) [pdf]
Initial Job: Michigan State University
Ph.D. Computer Science, 1999
Exploiting Diversity for Natural Language Parsing (Advisor: Dr. Brill) [pdf]
Initial Job: MITRE
M.S.E. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1997
Investigation of a zero-crossing-based auditory model for digit recognition and its implementation in analog VLSI (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Staff Maxim Corporation, San Jose CA
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2004
Active Learning for Acoustic Speech Recognition Modeling (Advisor: Dr. Byrne)
Initial Job: Department of Defense
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2004
Language Model Adaptation for Automatic Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation (Advisor: Dr. Khudanpur) [pdf]
Initial Job: Convergys, Inc.
I am a graduate student in the ECE department. I am working with Ben Van Durme on streaming algorithms to collect distributional statistics that can be applied in computational semantics, artificial intelligence, and other areas. I am also working part-time at the Army Research Laboratory's Multilingual Computing Branch, lead by Clare Voss. I have helped organize the JHU site for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2004
Minimum Bayes-Risk Techniques in Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: Google
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1997
Investigation of Silicon Auditory Models and Generalization of Linear Discriminant Analysis for Improved Speech Recognition (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: IBM
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2010
Discriminative Training and Variational Decoding in Machine Translation via Novel Algorithms for Weighted Hypergraphs (Advisors: Dr. Khudanpur and Dr. Eisner)
Initial Job: Google Research
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1992
An analog cochlear model: signal representation and VLSI realization (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Globespan, Middletown NJ
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1999
Model Resolution and Generalizability in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2000
Finding Consensus in Speech Recognition (Advisor: Dr. Brill) [pdf]
Initial Job: IBM T.J. Watson Research
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2006
Multi-Document Statistical Fact Extraction and Fusion (Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: Umass Amherst
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2007
Statistical Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition under Uncertainty (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: Nuance Communications
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000
Speaker Compensation with All-Pass Transforms (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2000
Maximizing Resources for Corpus-Based Natural Language Processing (Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: HK Poly U
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2003
Geometric Linear Discriminant Analysis for pattern Recognition Systems (Advisor: Dr. Meyer)
Initial Job: Department of Defense
I focused on human language technology when I did the Master's degree in CS. Prior to Hopkins, I studied electrical engineering with audio emphasis at University of Miami, and I worked as an engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego and Big Monster Toys in Chicago. After finishing the master's I joined the HLTCOE.
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1996
Low Power Architecture for Associative Processing in Analog VLSI (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Post-doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
I am a PhD student working with Prof. Sanjeev Khudanpur and Dr. Mark Dredze. My research focuses on building and using complex models, with linguistically motivated features, for automatic speech recognition. In addition, I have worked on training models for low-resource domains using unsupervised/semi-suprevised techniques. In general, my research interest is learning the complex structures that exist in data using statistical modeling techniques and applying machine learning to NLP related problems.
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000
Pronunciation Modeling for Conversational Speech Recognition (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: AT&T Labs -- Research
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2006
Translation Discovery Using Diverse Similarity Measures (Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: Google
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2003
Language Independent, Minimally Supervised Methods in NL Ambiguity Resolution (Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky)
Initial Job: Microsoft Research
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2010
Efficient Inference for Trees and Alignments: Modeling Monolingual and Bilingual Syntax with Hard and Soft Constraints and Latent Variables (Advisor: Dr. Eisner)
Initial Job: UMass Amherst
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2006
Novel Estimation Methods for Unsupervised Discovery of Latent Structure in Natural Language Text (Advisor: Dr. Eisner) [pdf]
Initial Job: Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Neural representation of spatial information in the primate somatosensory system (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Assistant Professor, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, India
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2009
Knowledge Integration into Language Models: A Random Forest Approach (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek) [pdf]
Initial Job: Nuance Communications
I am a PhD student working with Prof. Hynek Hermansky. My research focuses on improving posteriors of speech sounds estimated using artificial neural networks with applications to automatic speech and speaker recognition in different acoustic environments and low-resource settings.
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2008
Search and Learning for the Linear Ordering Problem with an Application to Machine Translation (Advisor: Dr. Eisner)
Initial Job: Google
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Linear Transforms in Automatic Speech Recognition: Discriminative Estimation Procedures and Integration of Diverse Acoustic Data (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: BBN Technologies
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2011
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Support Vector Machines For Segmental Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding Of Continuous Speech (Advisor: Dr. Byrne) [pdf]
Initial Job: Fair Isaac, Inc.
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000
Integration of Multiple Knowledge Sources in Speech Recognition using Minimum Error Training [pdf] (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: SRI International
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2009
(Advisor: Dr. Khudanpur)
Initial Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002
http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~richardw/pubs/thesis.pdf (Advisor: Dr. Yarowsky) [pdf]
Initial Job: Swarthmore College
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2002
Maximum Entropy Language Modeling with Non-local Dependencies (Advisor: Dr. Khudanpur) [pdf]
Initial Job: Google
I'm a PhD student advised by Prof. Sanjeev Khudanpur. I joined CLSP in 2007 after I received my B.S. degree in acoustics from Nanjing University China. I work on language modeling for speech recognition.
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2005
Random Forests and the Data Sparseness Problem in Language Modeling [pdf] (Advisor: Dr. Jelinek)
Initial Job: Google
I'm a PhD student working with Chris Callison-Burch, and my research is focused on crowdsourcing, applied to my topics of interest in machine learning and machine translation. I'm about to graduate, and will be headed to Microsoft Research after JHU. I'll miss you guys! Especially Juri!! Viva Chipotle!!!
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2008
A micro-Doppler sonar for acoustic surveillance in sensor networks (Advisor: Dr. Andreou)
Initial Job: Post-doctoral Fellow, UCSF Medical Center, CA
