Position: Research Associate
E-mail: ar527 [at] cam.ac.uk
Office Location: BE4-58
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Received B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in information technology from University of Tartu in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
From 2005 to 2008 underwent graduate training at Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology.
From 2007 to 2008 was an intern in Speech Technology Group, Toshiba Research Europe Limited.
Since 2008 has been pursuing Ph.D. degree in automatic speech recognition at University of Cambridge.
Received "Best Student Paper Award" at IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding for his paper "Generative kernels for noise robust ASR" co-authored with M.J.F. Gales in 2011.
Currently associated with projects:
BABEL (IARPA funded) Generative kernels and score-spaces for classification of speech (non-funded) HTK Version 3 (non-funded)
In past associated with projects:
Discriminative models for speech (Toshiba, EPSRC and HTK funded PhD) HTK Version 3
In past collaborated on projects:
Kernel Methods for Speech Processing (non-funded) with Z. Roupakia and M.J.F. Gales Structured Discriminative Models (non-funded) with S.-X. Zhang and M.J.F. Gales
Discriminative modelling for speech processing:
unstructured discriminative models structured discriminative models
Generative modelling for speech processing:
universal generative acoustic/language models speaker/environmental adaptation/compensation