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.