Dr. Alexander Waibel

Professor, Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University and Fakultat fur Informatik, Kalsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

Dr. Waibel's research interests center around the interpretation and integration of speech, language and other human communication signals in the design of human-computer and human-human communication systems. Two particularly challenging examples of these interests are the JANUS project, a speech-to-speech translation system, that provides translation of spoken language between English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean (e.g., a translating telephone). Another, the INTERACT project, attempts to design multimodal interfaces, that incorporate not only speech, but also other communication modalities, such as gesture, lipreading, handwritten character recognition, face- and eye-tracking, in order to derive a robust understanding of user intent.

Dr. Joy Ying Zhang

Research Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley; CyLab; Department of Electrical Computer and Engineering.

Dr. Joy Zhang's research interests are:

• Statistical Natural Language Processing
• Statistical Machine Translation
• Statistical Learning
• Context-aware computing and organic computing
• Virtual world communication
• Interpersonal collaboration and communication

Publications by Dr. Zhang

Contact: joy@cs.cmu.edu

Dr. Ian Lane

Dr. Lane's research interests are focused on spoken language translation, specifically:

• Machine learning approaches for speech recognition and language understanding
• Speaker, genre and topic-adaptation for spoken language translation
• Dialogue modeling in speech-to-speech translation

Publications of Ian Lane

Contact: ianlane@cs.cmu.edu