Timothy J. Hazen

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

   1998. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.
   Thesis: The Use of Speaker Correlation Information for Automatic Speech Recognition

   1993. S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.
   Thesis: Automatic Language Identification Using a Segment-Based Approach

   1991. S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.

Positions held:

   2013 - Present: Principal Speech Scientist, Microsoft, Cambridge, MA.

   2007 - 2012: Member of Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA.

   1998 - 2007: Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

   1995: Research Associate, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

Publications:

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Professional Activities:

  Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society's Speech and Language Technical Committee (2008-2010)
    * Elections Committee (2008)
    * ICASSP 2009 Speech Processing Area Chair
    * ICASSP 2010 Speech Processing Area Chair
    * ICASSP 2011 Speech Processing Area Chair

  Panels Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Languauge Technology (2012)

  Publications Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (2007)

  Program Committee Co-Chair for the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (2006)

  Program Committee Area Chair for the Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP) (2005)

  Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2004-2009)

  Reviewer for Journal Publications Including:
    * Computer Speech and Language
    * EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
    * IEEE Signal Processing Letters
    * IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
    * IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
    * IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
    * IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
    * Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    * Speech Communication

  Reviewer for International Conferences and Workshops Including:
    * IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
    * IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
    * IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology
    * Interspeech
    * Human Language Technology Conference/North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL)

  Reviewer for Government Programs:
    * National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (NSF/SBIR)

Academic Activities

  Academic Advisor for the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1999-2007)

  MIT EECS Masters Theses Supervised:
    * Simo Kamppari - Word and Phone Level Acoustic Confidence Scoring for Speech Understanding Systems (1999)
    * Theresa Burianek - Building a Speech Understanding System Using Word Spotting Techniques (2000)
    * Ernest Pusateri - Rapid Speaker Adaptation with Speaker Clustering (2002)
    * Alex Park - ASR Dependent Techniques for Speaker Recognition (2002)
    * Sy Bor Wang - A Multimodal Galaxy-based Geographic System (2003)
    * Chia-Hao La - Infrastructure Development for Integration of Lip Reading into the SUMMIT Speech Recognizer (2003)
    * Ram Woo - Exploration of Small Enrollment Speaker Verification on Handheld Devices (2005)
    * Tara Sainath - Acoustic Landmark Detection and Segmentation using the McAulay-Quatieri Sinusoidal Model (2005)
    * Daniel Schultz - Robust Audio-Visual Person Verification Using Web-Camera Video (2006)
    * Brennan Sherry - Photo Annotation and Retrieval through Speech (2007)

Society Memberships

  Senior Member of the IEEE.
  Member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.


Last updated 035/29/2011