Contact: search my first name and last name in the University of Illinois Campus Directory (for some reason, my last name, by itself, gives no result).
Research
- Director of the Statistical Speech and Technology Group
- RI: Small: Collaborative Research: Automatic Creation of New Speech Sound Inventories ( NSF IIS 1910319 )
- HEAL Consortium: Establishing Innovative Approaches for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study ( NIH Special Emphasis Panel 1 R34 DA050256-01 )
Service
- Treasurer, and member of the Diversity Committee, International Speech Communication Association
- Senior Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
- Chair of the ECE Curriculum Committee
- Executive Secretary, University of Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
Teaching
- This Semester: Artificial Intelligence and the Speech Information Processing Seminar
- Past Semesters: see the SST Meetings and Courses page.
Honors and Certifications
- 2020: Fellow of the IEEE, for contributions to speech processing of under-resourced languages
- 2011: Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, for contributions to vocal tract and speech modeling
- 2009: Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
- 1996, 1989, 1989: Ph.D., S.M., and S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT
- Academic family tree: me - Stevens - Beranek - Hunt - Chaffee - Pierce - Macfarlane - Tait - Hopkins - Sedgwick - Jones - Postlethwaite - Whisson - Taylor - Smith - Cotes - Newton.