ALEX S. PARK
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EDUCATION

2002-2006 Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy EECS Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor:   Dr. James R. Glass
2001-2002 Master of Engineering EECS Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor:   Dr. Timothy J. Hazen
Thesis:   ASR Dependent Techniques for Speaker Recognition**
** Awarded Honorable Mention for EECS Department Thesis Prize
 
1997-2001 Bachelor of Science
 		 EECS Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1997-2001 Bachelor of Science Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graduate GPA: 4.9/5.0 Undergraduate GPA: 4.9/5.0
 
Relvant Coursework  

WORK EXPERIENCE

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute Kyoto, Japan
Research Intern - Spoken Language Translation Group

 
 

Dates: 06/03 - 09/03
Exploring auditory strategies for alternative approaches to speech recognition.

 
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Cambridge, MA
Research Assistant - Spoken Language Systems

 
  Dates: 09/02 - Present
Extending speaker recognition work for incorporation with Orion system in collaboration with MIT Lincoln Lab. Also investigating auditory model features for noise robust speech recognition.

Dates: 06/01 - 06/02
Completed a speaker identification/verification system which incorporated lexical knowledge of the input utterance as part of Master's thesis. Work presented at ICSLP '02 in Colorado.

Dates: 01/01 - 06/01
Completed an undergraduate project to enable the SUMMIT speech recognizer to recognize non-speech sounds. Goal was to improve recognition by filtering out non-stationary noise events. Results presented at Eurospeech '01 in Aalborg.

 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

 
  Dates: 09/02 - 01/03
Assisted Professor Duane Boning and Professor Victor Zue in teaching 6.003.

Dates: 01/01 - 06/01
Assisted Professor Munther Dahleh in teaching 6.003, an introductory signals and systems course. Was responsible for two sections, totaling 60 undergraduates. Conducted weekly office hours, tutorials, and quiz review sessions. Also prepared homework and quiz solutions, tutorial handouts and review packets.

 
Speechworks International Boston, MA
Research Intern - OSR Development Group

 
 

Dates: 06/02 - 09/02
Investigated various model-based approaches for performing noise and channel compensation to improve recognition accuracy on in-car speech data.

 
SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.) Mountain View, CA
Hardware Intern - Advanced Server Division

 
 

Dates: 06/00 - 09/00
Performed design verification on a large I/O ASIC used in SGI's Origin Server line.

 
Media Lab, MIT Cambridge, MA
Undergraduate Research Assistant - Software Agents Group

 
 

Dates: 06/98 - 06/99
Worked on the Remembrance Agent, a class of autonomous agents designed to augment associative memory by providing context-relevant information. Added functionality to back-end database, and built a graphical user interface display using elisp.

PUBLICATIONS

Alex Park and Timothy J. Hazen, "A Comparison of Normalization and Training Approaches for ASR-Dependent Speaker Identification," To Appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Cheju-do, Korea, October, 2004.

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Timothy J. Hazen, Eugene Weinstein, Ryan Kabir, Alex Park and Bernd Heisele, "Multi-modal face and speaker identification on a handheld device," In Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication , pp. 113-120, Santa Barbara, California, December, 2003.

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Timothy J. Hazen, Eugene Weinstein, and Alex Park, "Towards robust person recognition on handheld devices using face and speaker identification technologies," In Proceeding of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces , Vancouver, B.C., November, 2003.

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Timothy J. Hazen, Douglas Jones, Alex Park, Linda Kukolich, and Douglas A. Reynolds, "Integrating speaker identification in spoken dialogue systems," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September, 2003.

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Alex Park and Timothy J. Hazen, "ASR dependent techniques for speaker identification," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado, September, 2002.

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Timothy J. Hazen, I. Lee Hetherington, and Alex Park, "FST-based recognition techniques for multi-lingual and multi-domain spontaneous speech," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, September, 2001.

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SKILLS

Software

 Perl, C/C++, Java, Emacs LISP, Scheme, HTML, JavaScript, LaTeX, Unix/Linux, Matlab

Hardware

PC and Unix based computers, Digital electronics experience

HONORS & AWARDS

Honor Societies

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering)

 

Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

 

Phi Beta Kappa (Arts and Sciences)

 

Sigma Xi (Research)

Other

Honorable Mention for William A. Martin thesis award in EECS department

 

Two-time National Gold Medallist in Cayley Math Competition (1st place in Canada out of 25,000)

ACTIVITIES

Former Treasurer, Executive Committee for MIT chapter of Tau Beta Pi
Former Treasurer, Vice-President, and Recruitment Chair for Nu Delta Fraternity
Piano, Tennis, Languages

STATUS

Canadian citizen, F-1 Student Visa. Authorized to work in U.S. and Canada.