Has a publication list; gave a talk at Google (Mountain View) and SRI International (Menlo Park) in September 2016; gave a talk at the Technion (TCE 2014) on Voice Biometrics for Mobile Authentication; gave a seminar on Speaker Diarization at Tel Aviv University in 30/4/2013; has a patent list.
Research Experience
Chairs sessions in Interspeech, ICASSP, and Speaker Odyssey. A program committee member in Interspeech and a scientific committee member in Speaker Odyssey. Gave a tutorial in Interspeech 2014 on speaker diarization and organized and chaired special sessions in Interspeech 2014 and 2016 on text-dependent speaker verification.
Background
Leading the speech analysis research team in IBM Research - Haifa, focusing on language recognition, emotion recognition, self-supervised learning, and speaker analysis. Used to work on speech recognition, speaker recognition, speaker diarization, face recognition, audiovisual processing, and recognition. An elected member of the Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC), which is part of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Miscellany
The most frequently checked email address is currently his work email, hagaia@com.ibm.il, reverse the domain name so that a.b.c becomes c.b.a. Keywords people might search for him by: speech recognition, speaker recognition, speaker verification, speaker identification, language identification, speaker diarization, speaker segmentation, speaker clustering, emotion recognition, voice activity detection, etc.