About me
Senior Manager, Speech and Language Technologies
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Michael Picheny is the Senior Manager of the Speech and Language Algorithms Group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Michael has worked in the Speech Recognition area since 1981, joining IBM after finishing his doctorate at MIT. He has been heavily involved in the development of almost all of IBM's recognition systems, ranging from the world's first real-time large vocabulary discrete system through IBM's current product lines for telephony and embedded systems. He has published numerous papers in both journals and conferences on almost all aspects of speech recognition. He has received several awards from IBM for his work, including three outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and two Research Division Awards. He is the co-holder of over 20 patents and was named a Master Inventor by IBM in 1995 and again in 2000. Michael served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing from 1986-1989, was the chairman of the Speech
Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2002-2004, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He served as an Adjunct Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of Columbia University in 2004-2005 and co-taught a course in speech recognition. He is currently a member of the board of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association).
Activities in Michael's group currently cover a multitude of interests in the area of speech and language processing. Work in large vocabulary speech recognition includes transcription and information extraction from broadcast news and conversations across multiple languages, such as English, Arabic, and Chinese. Speech-to-speech translation focuses on new models for coupling components to achieve better performance in limited domains. Trainable speech synthesis includes developing systems for both unrestricted and limited domains and includes an interactive demonstration. Work in Multimodal Conversational Technologies involves development and integration of multiple input modalities (speech, video, etc), natural language processing, and dialogue management into conversational platforms and solutions. Lastly, work in the Speech algorithms and Engines department focuses on developing new speech algorithms and engines for our telephony and embedded speech product lines. Please contact me for more information!
Michael Picheny
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-0218
Phone: +1-914-945-2527
Fax: +1-914-945-4490
Last updated 26 Nov 2007