Personal Info

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Bhiksha Raj
Ph.D Student
Affiliations: School of Computer Science and Dept. of ECE
Office: Porter Hall, B-43
Address:: Department of ECE; 5000 Forbes Ave.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone:: Home: (412) 687-2310; Office: (412) 268-7115; Lab: (412) 268-2530; FAX: (412) 268-3890
E-mail: bhiksha@cs.cmu.edu
Advisor: Prof. Richard M. Stern

I live in a cute apartment in Bloomfield. I even have a homepage for it. I used to have a homepage for my previous residence too. And for the one before that as well.

I may be away through spring '96 working at Philips Reseach in Aachen, Germany. On the other hand, I may not :-).
If I do, I hope to inveigle my friend Daniel Tapias at T.I.D into inviting me over to give a talk.

What do I do for a living?

I work on algorithms that make automatic speech recognition systems robust to the effects of noise and changes in recording conditions. I, have developed, along with my friend Pedro Moreno, a whole bunch of algorithms for robustness.
I also dabble a bit in other stuff sometimes..

Publications

A Vector Taylor Series approach to robust speech recognition (Enroute SAP)

A unified approach to robust speech recogniton (to appear in Speech Communication)

Supervised word sense disambiguation experiments giving comparable results (submitted to Computational Linguistics)

A Vector Power Series approach to environmental robustness for ASR systems (ICSLP-96)

(Another half dozen or so papers not worth mentioning)

I hope to get my thesis proposal done this semester.

What do I do for a life?

I travel, I take pictures, I read, I swim, I jog, I hope to do a 10 km segment of this year's Pittsburgh marathon, sometimes I play tennis... 8-/
I need a life!!

Unfortunately, I left my heart behind, at home.

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Updated March 1996: bhiksha@cs.cmu.edu