SESSION CHAIR: RICHARD STERN
Session 3: Language Technologies
SPEAKER BIO:
Richard M. Stern received the S.B. degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1970, the M.S. from the University of
California, Berkeley, in 1972, and the Ph.D. from MIT in 1977, all in
electrical engineering. He has been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon
University since 1977, where he is currently a Professor in the
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Departments,
and Associate Director of the CMU Information Networking Institute. Much of
Dr. Stern's current research is in spoken language systems, where he is
particularly concerned with the development of techniques with which
automatic speech recognition can be made more robust with respect to changes
in environment and acoustical ambience. He has also developed sentence
parsing and speaker adaptation algorithms for earlier CMU speech systems. In
addition to his work in speech recognition, Dr. Stern also maintains an
active research program in psychoacoustics, where he is best known for
theoretical work in binaural perception. Dr. Stern is a member of the IEEE
and the Acoustical Society of America.