I am a PhD student at the Center for Language and Speech Processing, at The Johns Hopkins University. My advisor is Professor Frederick Jelinek. My research interests focus on Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition. Current projects include: The New Shannon Game, Estimating the Ultimate Performance of a Language Model for ASR; and The Code-Break Game, Learning from the human language model. I am also interested in Automatic Speech Reconstruction.

I received my B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 2004 and 2006 respectively. I also had the opportunity to work in summer internships at the research groups in Nuance Communications, Summer 2007 and Google Speech Group in NY, Summer 2008.

Keywords: Language Modeling, Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Learning, Automatic Speech Reconstruction

My main research interest is Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition. Current projects include:

• The New Shannon Game: we are developing an online game that will allow us to estimate the ultimate performance of a language model for speech recognition. Game coming up soon!
• The Code Break Game: we are developing an online game that will help us learn from the humans language model. Game coming up soon!
• Automatic Speech Reconstruction: the objective of this project is to automatically transform disfluent and errorful spontaneous speech into clean and gramatical English automatically. To learn more visit here

• Parada, M.C. 2006. A collection of observations on data-rate-limited control. Thesis (M.S.) Washington State University

During my summers as a gradudate student I have had the oppportunity to intern at:

• Nuance Communications (Summer 2007): Acoustic Modeling Research, Tools Group, working with Dr. Puming Zhan
• Google, NY (Summer 2008): Speech Research Group, working with Dr. Boulos Harb

Love traveling. Had the opportunity to spend a month in Prague, Czech Republic in May 2008. I was working on my research at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics UFAL in Charles University, Prague. I will be going back in the Fall 2008.

Love dancing, running, hiking...