Born in mainland China, I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Language and Speech Processing.
My current advisor is Prof. Andreas G. Andreou.

My research interests include Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Processing and Machine Learning.

• Haolang Zhou, Damianos Karakos, and Andreas G. Andreou, A Semi-supervised Version of Heteroscedastic Linear Discriminant Analysis, To appear in Interspeech 2009. (Awarded ISCA Student Grant).
• Haolang Zhou, Damianos Karakos, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Andreas G. Andreou, and Carey E. Priebe, On Projections of Gaussian Distributions using Maximum Likelihood Criteria, In Proc. of the Information Theory and Applications Workshop, La Jolla, California, February 2009.
• Yanli Zheng, Richard Sproat, Liang Gu, Izhak Shafran, Haolang Zhou, Yi Su, Dan Jurafsky, Rebecca Starr and Su-Youn Yoon, Accent Detection and Speech Recognition for Shanghai-Accented Mandarin, In Proc. of InterSpeech 05 (Eurospeech), Lisboa, Portugal, 2005.
CLSP Research Note:
• Izhak Shafran and Haolang Zhou, Multiple Heteroscedastic Linear Discriminant Analysis, CLSP Research Note 54

Workshop:
• Member of the 2004 CLSP Summer Workshop team:
  Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition
  Teaching Assistant:
• Information Extraction from Speech and Text
  Spring of 2006 and 2009, Prof. Sanjeev Khudanpur
• Fields, Matter & Waves
  Spring of 2005, Prof. Frederic M. Davidson
• Basic Communications
  Fall of 2004, Prof. Frederic M. Davidson
• Signals and Systems
  Spring of 2004, Prof. Wilson J. Rugh