KITT.AI, a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup, has received funding from Amazon’s Alexa Fund and Founders’ Co-op. Xuchen Yao, a CLSP alumnus, and Guoguo Chen, a CLSP graduate student, are two of the company’s co-founders.
The Julian S. Smith Professor in Electrical Engineering and director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing returns to his alma mater in the Czech Republic.
Google’s services are not available in China, but that isn’t stopping it from making a significant investment in a company based on Chinese soil. The U.S. search giant is backing Mobvoi, a three-year-old company specializing in mobile voice technology.
Professor Andreas G. Andreou (ECE, BME) and graduate students; Daniel Mendat and Kate Fischl, attended a National BRAIN initiative event at the U.S. Capitol where the official announcement was made for the funding of a Kavli Neuroscience Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Rockefeller University and UCSF.
Sanjeev Khudanpur is working with other engineers and doctors to use computers to improve how medical students learn surgical procedures.
Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty Mounya Elhilali, Jim West, and their students have built a high-tech stethoscope to address two problems: ambient noise and untrained users.
Vijay Peddiniti won the Interspeech 2015 Best Student Paper award for a paper coauthored with Daniel Povey and Sanjeev Khudanpur.
