I entered MIT in 1987 and received an SB in 1991, an SM in 1993, and a PhD in 1998, all from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. From 1998 until 2007, I worked as a Research Scientist for the Spoken Language Systems Group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. I continue to retain research affiliate status with MIT CSAIL. As of March of 2007, I have transferred to the Human Language Technology Group at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. My primary research interests are in the areas of speech recognition and understanding, audio indexing, speaker identification, language identification, multi-lingual speech processing, and multi-modal speech processing.