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Career

· Researcher, Microsoft Research, Microsoft2008–
· Intern, Microsoft Research2007–2008
· Visualization Developer, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum2006–2007
· Intern, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics2005–2005
· Research Assistant, University of Chicago2004–2007
· B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Zimbabwe1995–1997

Publications (20)

Dialog act tagging with support vector machines and hidden Markov models
Interspeech · 2006
104
cited
Quantifying the functional load of phonemic oppositions, distinctive features, and suprasegmentals
2006
82
cited
Articulatory complexity, ambient frequency, and functional load as predictors of consonant development in children.
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research · 2005
69
cited
The functional load of tone in Mandarin is as high as that of vowels
Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody · 2004
59
cited
The three colour problem
1999
58
cited
Distributed gradient-domain processing of planar and spherical images
TOGS · 2010
34
cited
Measuring the Functional Load of Phonological Contrasts
arXiv.org · 2003
27
cited
Measuring the Usefulness (Functional Load) of Phonological Contrasts
2016
21
cited
Tone recognition in Mandarin using focus
Interspeech · 2005
20
cited
Classification of statement and question intonations in Mandarin
Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody · 2006
16
cited
Additional Cues for Mandarin Tone Recognition
2006
8
cited
Analysis and automatic recognition of tones in mandarin chinese
2007
7
cited
Visualizing High Dimensional Datasets Using Partiview
IEEE Information Visualization Conference · 2004
7
cited
Can voice quality improve mandarin tone recognition?
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing · 2008
4
cited
The Conquest of the Kepler Conjecture
2001
2
cited
Local Rhyme-based Acoustic Features for Mandarin Tone Recognition
2006
1
cited
Automating the Creation of Interactive Glyph-supplemented Scatterplots for Visualizing Algorithm Results
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2006
Measuring the Usefulness ( Fun tionalLoad ) of Phonologi al ContrastsDinoj Surendran
2003
[no title]
Mathematical Gazette · 2000
Script for Ndaona demo Dinoj Surendran
2006
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