Bill Byrne

Research Associates

Dr. Adria de Gispert
Senior Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Dr. Gonzalo Iglesias
Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Former Research Associates and PostDocs

Dr. Graeme Blackwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Now Research Staff Member in the Machine Translation Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Dr. Matt Gibson
Now at the University of Sheffield
Dr. Hichem Sahbi
Dr. Shankar Kumar
Now at Google, Inc.
Prof. Izhak Shafran
Dept of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
OGI School of Science & Engineering

Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised

Graeme Blackwood, Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2010
Lattice Rescoring Methods for Statistical Machine Translation [.pdf]
Now Research Staff Member in the Machine Translation Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Jamie Brunning, Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2010
Alignment Models and Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation [.pdf]

Lambert Mathias, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2007
Statistical Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition under Uncertainty
Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]
Now at Nuance, Inc.
Yonggang Deng, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
Bitext Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]
Now at IBM T.J. Watson Research
Stavros Tsakalidis, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
Linear Transforms in Automatic Speech Recognition: Discriminative Estimation Procedures and Integration of Diverse Acoustic Data
Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]
Now at BBN Technologies
Veera Venkataramani, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
Support Vector Machines For Segmental Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding Of Continuous Speech
Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]
Now at PayPal, Inc.
Shankar Kumar, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
Minimum Bayes-Risk Techniques in Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation
Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]
Now at Google, Inc.
Vlasios Doumpiotis, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
Discriminative Training for Speaker Adaptation and Minimum Risk Estimation in Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition
Dissertation [.pdf]
Formerly at eScription, Inc.
Vaibhava Goel, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, JHU, 2001
Minimum Bayes-Risk Automatic Speech Recognition
Now at IBM T.J. Watson Research
Asela Gunawardana, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2001
The Information Geometry of EM Variants for Speech and Image Processing
Now at Microsoft Research
John McDonough, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2000
Speaker Compensation with All-Pass Transforms
Now at Saarland University, Germany