Karen Livescu
Scholar

Karen Livescu

Google Scholar ID: kCYbVq0AAAAJ
TTI-Chicago
speech and language processingmachine learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
10,806
 
H-index
45
 
i10-index
90
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
179
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Involved in organizing the TTIC Summer Workshop on Foundations of Speech and Audio Foundation Models. For specific publications, awards, and other academic achievements, please refer to her CV.
Research Experience
  • Currently a Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, advising multiple graduate students and visiting students. Past students and post-docs now work at companies like NVIDIA, Google, Amazon, or hold faculty positions at other universities.
Education
  • Completed her PhD in 2005 at MIT in the Spoken Language Systems group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From 2005-2007, she was a post-doctoral lecturer in the MIT EECS department. In 2008, she was a Research Assistant Professor at TTI-Chicago.
Background
  • Main research interests are in speech and language processing, as well as related aspects of machine learning. She is a Professor at TTI-Chicago, a courtesy faculty member in Computer Science, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Data Science Institute at the University of Chicago.
Miscellany
  • Teaches courses such as 'Speech Technologies' and 'Unsupervised Learning and Data Analysis'.