Orial Vinyals Receives Microsoft Research Fellowship

^{January 15, 2011}
Oriol Vinyals, a UC Berkeley student in the Speech Group, has received a Microsoft Research Fellowship to continue work in tele-immersion using analysis of both human speech and vision. Vinyals, one of twelve PhD students in the U.S. to receive the fellowship in 2011 and the only one from UC Berkeley, will help develop systems that are able to interact with humans by analyzing things like gestures, gazes, and spoken questions. The work may help, for example, doctors who need to interact with patients who are hundreds of miles away. The two-year fellowship begins this fall.