Samuel Thomas
Scholar

Samuel Thomas

Google Scholar ID: S34WHG0AAAAJ
IBM Research AI
Speech RecognitionSpoken Language UnderstandingMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,937
 
H-index
27
 
i10-index
56
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
90
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers such as 'CAV-MAE Sync: Improving Contrastive Audio-Visual Mask Autoencoders via Fine-Grained Alignment' and holds several patents like 'Textual Knowledge Transfer For Improved Speech Recognition And Understanding'.
Research Experience
  • Since graduation, he has been with the Speech Technologies Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York. In the past, he has worked on several speech research projects and workshops with the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) at JHU, the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland, and the TeNeT group, IIT Madras.
Education
  • Received B.Tech degree in Computer Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India; M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India; and Doctor of Philosophy degree from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Background
  • Research interests include speech processing and machine learning for speech recognition, spoken language understanding, speech synthesis, and speaker recognition.
Miscellany
  • An IBM Master Inventor, Senior Member of the IEEE, and also an Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. He is also an elected member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC).