Dr. Gopinath has a Phd from Rice University and has been with the Speech Group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center since March 1994. His primary research interests are in statistical learning, speech recognition and signal processing. He currently manages the research effort in acoustic and language modeling that supports the telephony and embedded speech recognition product offerings from IBM. Prior to this assignment he led the IBM Broadcast News Transcription team that won the NIST/DARPA Broadcast News Transcription competition in 1998 and 1999.