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Career

· Senior Director of Data Science, Kasisto, Inc.2019–2021
· Founder, Modality.AI, Inc.2018–
· Founder; Chief Science Officer, EMR.AI, Inc.2016–2019
· Director of Research, Educational Testing Service2014–2018
· Professor of Computer Science; Department Head, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University2011–2017
· Speech Science Engineer; Principal Speech Scientist, SpeechCycle, Inc.; Synchronoss, Inc.2007–2013
· Visiting Researcher, Columbia University2005–2005
· Visiting Researcher, University of Southern California2005–2005
· Research Staff Member, Technical University of Catalonia2004–2007
· Ph.D. (E.E.), Bundeswehr University Munich2003–2008
· Ph.D. Fellowship, Siemens Corporate Technology2003–2007
· Research Staff Member, RWTH Aachen - University of Technology2002–2003
· M.Sc. (E.E.), Siemens Corporate Technology2001–2002
· Studies in Electrical Engineering, Dresden University of Technology1997–2002

Publications (105)

Text-Independent Voice Conversion Based on Unit Selection
2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings · 2006
136
cited
Using bidirectional lstm recurrent neural networks to learn high-level abstractions of sequential features for automated scoring of non-native spontaneous speech
Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding · 2015
112
cited
Exploring ASR-free end-to-end modeling to improve spoken language understanding in a cloud-based dialog system
Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding · 2017
71
cited
Comparing Open-Source Speech Recognition Toolkits ⋆
2014
64
cited
An automated medical scribe for documenting clinical encounters
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2018
59
cited
A study on residual prediction techniques for voice conversion
Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. · 2005
57
cited
A first step towards text-independent voice conversion
Interspeech · 2004
55
cited
Evaluating Speech, Face, Emotion and Body Movement Time-series Features for Automated Multimodal Presentation Scoring
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction · 2015
47
cited
Are We There Yet? Research in Commercial Spoken Dialog Systems
International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue · 2009
45
cited
Text-independent cross-language voice conversion
Interspeech · 2006
40
cited
Medical Speech Recognition: Reaching Parity with Humans
International Conference on Speech and Computer · 2017
39
cited
From rule-based to statistical grammars: Continuous improvement of large-scale spoken dialog systems
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing · 2009
37
cited
Assembling the Jigsaw: How Multiple Open Standards Are Synergistically Combined in the HALEF Multimodal Dialog System
2017
32
cited
Caller Experience: A method for evaluating dialog systems and its automatic prediction
2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop · 2008
32
cited
Investigating the Utility of Multimodal Conversational Technology and Audiovisual Analytic Measures for the Assessment and Monitoring of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis at Scale
Interspeech · 2021
31
cited
Deep Learning for Punctuation Restoration in Medical Reports
Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing · 2017
30
cited
An Open-Source Dialog System with Real-Time Engagement Tracking for Job Interview Training Applications
International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology · 2018
26
cited
Self-Adaptive DNN for Improving Spoken Language Proficiency Assessment
Interspeech · 2016
24
cited
NEMSI: A Multimodal Dialog System for Screening of Neurological or Mental Conditions
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents · 2019
23
cited
Jee haan, I'd like both, por favor: Elicitation of a Code-Switched Corpus of Hindi-English and Spanish-English Human-Machine Dialog
Interspeech · 2017
21
cited
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