Alex S. Park Contact Info ------------ Term Address: 129 Franklin St, #213 Cambridge, MA 02139 E-mail: malex@mit.edu Phone (H): (617) 610-5825 Phone (W): (617) 253-8386 Education --------- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 06/06 - Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Dr. James R. Glass 06/02 - Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Thesis: ASR Dependent Techniques for Speaker Recognition ** Advisor: Dr. Timothy J. Hazen ** Awarded Honorable Mention for EECS Department Thesis Prize 06/01 - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 06/01 - Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Graduate GPA: 5.0/5.0 Undergraduate GPA: 4.9/5.0 Relevant Classes Taken: CS Related - Computer Programming with LISP, Computation Structures, Computer Systems Engineering, Algorithms, Combinatorics, Software Engineering, Combinatorial Optimization, Probability Theory, Multi-Variable Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Analysis, Complex Variables, Applied Discrete Math EE Related - Signals and Systems, Circuits and Electronics, Digital Electronics Lab, Electromagnetism with Theory, Microelectronic Devices and Circuits, Communications and Control Processing, Discrete-Time Signal Processing Automatic Speech Recognition, Digital Communications, Feedback Systems Speech Communications, Stochastic Detection and Estimation, Wavelets 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. Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT Cambridge, MA Research Assistant - Spoken Language Systems Group 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 As an undergraduate, worked on a project to enable the SUMMIT speech recognizer to recognize non-speech sounds. Goal was to improve recognition by filtering out non-stationary noise events such as coughs and laughs. Results presented at Eurospeech '01 in Aalborg. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Teaching Assistant - EECS Department 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 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 05/00 - 08/00 Performed design verification on a large I/O ASIC used in SGI's Origin Server line. Media Laboratory, MIT Cambridge, MA Undergraduate Research Assistant - Software Agents Group 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. Skills ------ Hardware - PC and Unix based computers, Digital electronics experience Software - Perl, C/C++, Java, Emacs LISP, Scheme, HTML, JavaScript, LaTeX, Unix/Linux Shell Honors & Awards --------------- Honor Societies - Tau Beta Pi (Engineering) Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) Sigma Xi (Research) Phi Beta Kappa (Arts and Sciences) Other - Honorable Mention for William A. Martin Thesis award in EECS department at MIT Two-time National Gold Medallist in Cayley Math Competition (1st place in Canada out of 25,000) Publications ------------ Timothy J. Hazen, Eugene Weinstein, Ryan Kabir, Alex Park and Bernd Heisele, "Multi-modal face and speaker identification on a handheld device" To be presented at the Multimodal User Authentification Workshop, Santa Barbara, California, December, 2003. Timothy J. Hazen, Eugene Weinstein and Alex Park, "Towards robust person recognition on handheld devices using face and speaker identification technologies" To be presented at the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Vancouver, B.C., November, 2003. Timothy J. Hazen, Douglas Jones, Alex Park, Linda Kukolich, and Douglas A. Reynolds, "Use of speaker identification in spoken dialogue systems," Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September, 2003. 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. 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. Interests & 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 ------ Born in Canada, F-1 Student Visa, Authorized to work in US and Canada.