Rong Zhang Ph.D. Candidate Language Technologies Institute Schhool of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Office: 3124 Wean Hall Phone: (412)268-8806 Cell: (412)680-9089 Fax: (412)268-5576 Email: rongz@cs.cmu.edu

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Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
M.S. in Computer Science, 1996, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
B.S. in Computer Science, 1993, Department of Computer Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.

Research Interests
Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding
Speech and Multimedia Interface
Statistical Language Modeling
Dialog Processing
Statistical Machine Learning

Selected Publications
Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "A New Data Selection Approach for Semi-Supervised Acoustic Modeling", Proc. of ICASSP 2006.
Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "A Frame Level Boosting Training Scheme for Acoustic Modeling", Proc. of ICSLP 2004.
Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Improve Latent Semantic Analysis based Language Model by Integrating Multiple Level Knowledge", Proc. of ICSLP 2002.
Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "A Large Scale Clustering Scheme for Kernel K-Means", Proc. of ICPR 2002.
Rong Zhang and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Word Level Confidence Annotation using Combinations of Features", Proc. of EuroSpeech 2001.
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Advisor
Dr. Alexander I. Rudnicky