Congratulations to ICSI Speech Graduates
Two postdocs and one graduate student working on speech research at ICSI are moving on to exciting new research jobs. Congratulations to Hari Parthasarathi, Mary Knox, and Howard Lei as they embark on the next phase of their respective careers.
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Hari Parthasarathi joins Amazon as a research scientist working on speech recognition. Dr. Parthasarathi also had job offers from several other high-profile tech companies. He was a postdoctoral fellow at ICSI working on Project OUCH, which analyzed the statistical models used in speech recognition systems to better understand how they work and how they could be improved. A paper about this work was presented recently at ICASSP 2013 in Vancouver, Canada. |
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Mary Knox will be moving to North Carolina, where she will be a research scientist at Duke, working with Professor Leslie Collins. Dr. Knox will be teaching one class a year at Duke while doing research under Professor Collins, whose work focuses on cochlear implants, brain machine interfacing, and landmines. She worked at ICSI for several years while she was a PhD student at UC Berkeley. Dr. Knox recently completed her PhD thesis, which incorporated much of her research done at ICSI on speaker diarization. |
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Howard Lei joins the faculty at California State University - East Bay in the Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Lei will be an assistant professor working to build the department, which is only a few years old. In addition to research, he will be teaching, doing academic advising, and developing curriculum. Dr. Lei was a graduate student researcher at ICSI until he completed his PhD in 2010 at UC Berkeley, and has been a postdoctoral researcher at ICSI since then, working on speech research as well as audio and multimedia. He has published numerous papers while at ICSI, including one at ICASSP 2013. |
