Research Interests:
Shri's Speech Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL) is devoted to theoretical issues and practical applications of
- Speech and Language Processing & Analysis, Automatic Speech Recognition
- Speech production modeling, Articulatory Acoustics, Speech synthesis
- Biomedical signal processing and Modeling Imaging & Instrumentation for Speech Research
- Human machine interaction Multimodal Multimedia interface, Devices, and Systems
Biographical Information:
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor of Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology
*Shrikanth Narayanan* received his M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D., all in electrical engineering, from UCLA in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively. From 1995-2000 he was with AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park (formerly AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill) -- first as a Senior Member and later as a Principal member of its Technical Staff. Currently, he is a Professor at the Signal and Image Processing Institute of USC's Electrical Engineering department and holds joint appointments as Professor in Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology. He is also a Research Area Director of the Integrated Media Systems Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center at USC, and was the Research Principal for the USC Pratt and Whitney Institute for Collaborative Engineering, a unique partnership between academia and industry (2003-2007).
Shri Narayanan is currently an Editor for the Computer, Speech and Language Journal and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine having previously served an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Speech and Audio Processing (2000-2004). He holds elected positions on the Speech Processing and Multimedia Signal Processing technical committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the Speech Communication and Acoustic Standards committees of the Acoustical Society of America. At USC, he is Chair of the Joint Provost-Senate University Research Committee and, is President of the Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society.
Shri Narayanan is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Senior member of IEEE and member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and Eta Kappa Nu. He holds the first Viterbi Professorship in Engineering at USC. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, USC Engineering Junior Research Award, USC Electrical Engineering Northrop-Grumman Research award, a Mellon award for mentoring excellence and a faculty fellowship from the USC Center for Interdisciplinary research. He received a 2005 Best Paper award from the IEEE Signal Processing society. Papers co-authored with his students have won best student paper awards at IEEE MMSP 2006, ICASSP 2005 and ICSLP 2002. His research interests are in signals and systems modeling with an interdisciplinary emphasis on speech, audio, language, multimodal and biomedical problems and applications with direct societal relevance. His laboratory is supported by federal (NSF, NIH, DARPA, ONR, Army and DHS) and industry grants. He has published over 240 papers and has 5 granted and 9 pending U.S. patents.
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