Timothy J. Hazen
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Info:
MIT Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laboratory
The Stata Center - Room 362
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139
USA
phone: 617-253-4672
email: hazen@csail.mit.edu
web: http://people.csail.mit.edu/people/hazen
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.
2003 - 2007: Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.
1998 - 2003: Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, 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-present)
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 (2004-2007)
Reviewer for Journal Publications:
* Computer Speech and Language (2001,2007)
* EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing(2004,2006,2007)
* IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2002-2005)
* IEEE Signal Processing Magazine(2005)
* IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2000)
* IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2002-2005)
* IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2006)
* Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1999,2002,2003)
* Speech Communication (1999,2001-2006)
* The IEICE Transactions (2005)
Reviewer for International Conferences and Workshops:
* IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (2004-2008)
* IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (2003,2005,2007)
* International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (2002,2004)
* European Conference on Spoken and Language Technology (EUROSPEECH) (2003,2005)
* Interspeech (2006,2007)
* Human Language Technologies/North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (HLT/NAACL) (2003-2004)
* International Conference on Pattern Recognition (2000)
Reviewer for Government Programs:
* National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (NSF/SBIR) (2000)
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 (2007)
Last updated 1/2/08