Brian Kingsbury
Scholar

Brian Kingsbury

Google Scholar ID: iJENOG8AAAAJ
Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights
Automatic Speech RecognitionSpoken Term DetectionDeep Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
14,694
 
H-index
38
 
i10-index
93
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
83
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers such as 'Exploring the Limits of Conformer CTC-Encoder for Speech Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models' (2025, INTERSPEECH) and more; holds several patents including 'Textual Knowledge Transfer For Improved Speech Recognition And Understanding' (US Patent No. 12444405, October 13, 2025).
Research Experience
  • Currently serving as a senior area editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, an action editor for Transactions of Machine Learning Research, and an action editor for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. I am a fellow of the IEEE.
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science from the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California, Berkeley; Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University.
Background
  • I've been a researcher at IBM since 1999. My research interests include machine learning and large vocabulary speech recognition, with a focus on acoustic modeling and robustness.