CLSP Alumni	Friday, May 9, 2008

CLSP Alumni

Ciprian Chelba

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 17 December 1999
• Dissertation Title: Exploiting Syntactic Structure for Natural Language Modeling
• Current Employer: Microsoft
• Publications

Silviu Cucerzan

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, August 2003
• Dissertation Title: Language Independent, Minimally Supervised Methods in NL Ambiguity Resolution
• Current Employer: Microsoft

Yonggang Deng

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, December 2005
• Dissertation Title: Bitext Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
• Current Employer: IBM

Vlasios Doumpiotis

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, September 2004
• Dissertation Title: Discriminative Training for Speaker Adaptation and Minimum Bayes Risk Estimation in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition
• Current Employer: eScription

Robert Timothy Edwards

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 26 March 1999
• Dissertation Title: Time-Frequency Acoustic Processing and Recognition: Analysis and Analog VLSI Implementations
• Current Employer: JHU Applied Physics Laboratory: Laurel, MD

Ahmad Emami

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 18 August 2005
• Dissertation Title: A Neural Syntactic Language Model
• Current Employer: IBM

Radu Florian

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 26 September 2002
• Dissertation Title: Transformation Based Learning and Data-Driven Lexical Disambiguation: Syntactic and Semantic Ambiguity Resolution
• Current Employer: IBM

Paul Furth

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 9 October 1995
• Dissertation Title: On the design of Optimal Continuous-Time Filter Banks in Subtheashold CMOS
• Current Employer: New Mexico State University, Assistant Professor

Vaibhava Goel

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, November 29, 2000
• Dissertation Title: Minimum Bayes-Risk Automatic Speech Recognition
• Current Employer: IBM
• Publications

Asela Gunarwardana

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, April 2001
• Dissertation Title: The Information Geometry of EM Variants for Speech and Image Processing
• Current Employer: Microsoft
• Publications

John Henderson

• Degree obtained: Doctorate
• Dissertation Title: Exploiting Diversity for natural Language Parsing
• Current Employer: MITRE: Boston, Mass.

Terri Kamm

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, March 4, 2004
• Dissertation Title: Active Learning for Acoustic Speech Recognition Modeling
• Current Employer: DoD

Woosung Kim

• Degree Obtained: Doctorate, October 2004
• Dissertation Title: Language Model Adaptation for Automatic Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation
• Current Employer: Convergys

Nagendra Kumar

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, February 1997
• Dissertation Title: Investigation of Silicon Auditory Models and Generalization of Linear Discriminant analysis for Improved Speech Recognition
• Current Employer: IBM

Shankar Kumar

• Degree Obtained: Doctorate, September 2004.
• Dissertation Title: Minimum Bayes-Risk Techniques in Automatic Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation
• Current Employer: Google

Xiaoqiang Luo

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 15 February 1999
• Dissertation Title: Balancing Model Resolution and Generalizability in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
• Current Employer: IBM
• Publications

Lidia Mangu

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, April 2000
• Dissertation Title: Finding Consensus in Speech Recognition
• Current Employer: IBM
• Publications

John McDonough

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 30 March 2000
• Dissertation Title: Speaker Comprehension with All-Pass Transforms
• Current Employer: Universitaet Karlsruhe with Dr. Alex Waibel
• Publications

Grace Ngai

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, October 2000
• Dissertation Title: Maximizing Resources for Corpus-Based Natural Language Processing
• Current Employer: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Assistant Professor
• Publications

Mark Ordowski

• Degree Obtained: Doctorate, March 2003
• Dissertation Title: Geometric Linear Discrmininant Analysis for Pattern Recognition Systems
• Current Employer: DoD

Philippe Pouliquen

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 3 October 1996
• Dissertation Title: Low Power Architecture for Associative Processing in Analog VLSI
• Current Employer: Post-Doctoral Fellow with Andreas Andreou at JHU

Murat Saraclar

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 23 May 2000
• Dissertation Title: Pronunciation Modeling for Conversational Speech Recognition
• Publications, Additional Listings
• Current Employer: BoA Yazici University (Turkey), Assistant Professor

Noah Smith

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 13 July 2006
• Dissertation Title: Novel Estimation Methods for Unsupervised Discovery of Latent Structure in Natural Language Text
• Current Employer: Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Computer Science

Stavros Tsakalidis

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 23 September 2005
• Dissertation Title: Linear Transforms in Automatic Speech Recognition: Estimation Procedures and Integration of Diverse Acoustic Data
• Current Employer: BBN

Dimitra Vergyri

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 15 May 2000
• Dissertation Title: Integration of Multiple Knowledge Sources in Speech Recognition Using Minimum Error Training
• Publications
• Current Employer: SRI

Veera Venkataramani

• Degree Obtained: Doctorate, April 2005
• Dissertation title: Code Breaking for Automatic Speech Recognition
• Current Employer: Fair Isaac Corporation

Richard Wicentowski

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 23 August 2002
• Dissertation Title: Modeling and Learning Multilingual Inflectional Morphology
• Current Employer: Swarthmore College, Assistant Professor

Jun Wu

• Degree obtained: Doctorate, 20 August 2002
• Dissertation Title: Maximum Entropy Language Modeling Using Nonlocal Dependencies
• Current Employer: Google

Peng Xu

• Degree Obtained: Doctorate, April 2005
• Dissertation Title: Random Forests and the Data Sparseness Problem in Language Modeling
• Current Employer: Google

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