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:
2007 - Present: 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
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
* 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