Mark Gales
studied for the B.A. in Electrical and Information Sciences at
the University of Cambridge from
1985-88. Following graduation he worked as a consultant
at Roke Manor
Research Ltd. In 1991 he took up a position as a Research
Associate in the Speech Vision and Robotics group in the Engineering
Department at Cambridge University. In 1995 he completed his doctoral
thesis: Model-Based Techniques for Robust
Speech Recognition supervised
by Professor Steve
Young. From 1995-1997 he was a Research Fellow
at Emmanuel College
Cambridge. He was then a Research Staff Member in the Speech group at
the IBM T.J.Watson Research
Center until 1999 when he returned
to Cambridge University Engineering
Department as a University Lecturer. He was appointed Reader in
Information Engineering in 2004. He is currently a Professor of
Information Engineering (appointed 2012) and a Professorial College Lecturer and
Official Fellow
of Emmanuel College. Mark
Gales is a Fellow of the IEEE and was a member of
the Speech
Technical Committee from 2001-2004. He was an associate editor for
IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2009-2011 and is currently an
associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language
Processing. He is also on the Editorial Board of Computer Speech and
Language.