Ruhi Sarikaya

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Ruhi Sarikaya

Research staff member


Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)


Ruhi Sarikaya is a research staff member in the Human Language Technologies Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He received the B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Turkey in 1995, M.S. degree from Clemson University, SC in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree from Duke University, NC in 2001 all in electrical and computer engineering. He has published over 40 technical papers in refereed journal and conference proceedings and, is holder of six patents in the area of speech and natural language processing. At IBM he has received several prestigious awards for his work including two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards (2005 and 2008) and two Research Division Awards (2005 and 2007). Prior to joining IBM in 2001 he was a researcher at the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder for two years. He also spent the summer of 1999 at the Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA. He has served as the publicity chair of IEEE ASRU’05 and gave a tutorial on “Processing Morphologically Rich Languages” at Interspeech’07. Dr. Sarikaya is a senior member of IEEE and currently serving as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing.


Call-for-papers for a special issue on "Processing Morphologically Rich Languages" in " IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2008 .

Last updated 23 May 2008

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