Nelson Morgan

Nelson Morgan, Deputy Director of ICSI

morgan @ icsi.berkeley.edu

Nelson Morgan has been a speech and signal processing/machine learning researcher and the former director of ICSI as well as a professor in residence emeritus at UC Berkeley. He led the speech research effort at ICSI from 1988 through 2012 and worked on speech and brain signal processing since 1980. With Hervé Bourlard, he was an originator of the "hybrid system" approach to speech recognition (neural networks used probabilistically with HMMs), and with Hynek Hermansky was the co-inventor of signal processing techniques that were used in millions of cell phones. More recently he has been studying best practices for political campaigns in order to further his ideals.

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Work Experience

  • Director, ICSI, 1999-2011, 2013-2014
  • Professor in Residence, Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2000-2014
  • Speech Group Leader, ICSI, 1988-2012
  • Chief Engineer, EEG Systems Lab, 1984-1988
  • Speech Researcher, National Semiconductor, 1980-1984

Education

  • PhD, UC Berkeley, 1980 (NSF Fellow)
  • MS, UC Berkeley, 1979
  • BS, UC Berkeley, 1977

Awards, Honors, and Significant Achievements

  • More than 200 publications, including four books
  • Graduated 25 PhDs, 3 MSs, and numerous postdoctoral fellows
  • Holds patents in audio, speech, and biomedical signal processing methods
  • Co-originator of the hybrid HMM/ANN approach to speech recognition
  • Co-inventor of RASTA signal processing
  • Former co-Editor-in-Chief, Speech Communication
  • Former Member, Board of Trustees for the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago
  • IEEE Flanagan Speech and Signal Processing Award
  • IEEE Best Paper Award, Signal Processing Magazine, 1997
  • Fellow, IEEE
  • Fellow, International Speech Communication Association