Faculty
Sanjeev Khudanpur
Associate Professor
Primary Appointment: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
- Information Theory • Speech Recognition
- Statistical Modeling • Machine Translation
- Deep Learning • Natural Language Processing
Sanjeev Khudanpur, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is known for applying information theory, statistics, and deep learning to human language technologies, including automatic speech recognition, machine translation, and natural language processing. His research was pivotal in the creation of the Amazon Echo/Alexa and several other technological successes, and in advancing the development of neural language models. Alumni from his research group and summer research workshops are leading industry and academic research globally.
Khudanpur holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He is the Director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing and the JHU+Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI. Additionally, he is a founding member of the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. He earned a BTech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.
