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'.