Jahanzeb Sherwani(pronunciation)


Final-year PhD Student
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Advisors: Roni Rosenfeld and Alex Rudnicky

Research Interests: Spoken dialog systems for semi-literate users in the developing world. (PhD Proposal, CV)

Current Project:
HealthLine Investigating speech interfaces for community health workers in Pakistan (case study)

Previous Projects:
Asterisk Setting up VoIP infrastructure for the Sphinx Group at CMU (ppt)
Sublime Designing a system that learns by being told, and remembers information relevant for each user (video)
CALO Speeding up Sphinx 3 recognition speed, while maintaining high accuracy for the CALO Meeting Recorder (paper)
OpenSALT Speech-enabled XML SALT standard implemented in Mozilla

Grants & Awards:
Siebel Scholar Award, class of 2008
Microsoft Research Digital Inclusion RFP grant recipient, 2006-2007

Publications:

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Sarwat Mirza, Anjum Fatma, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld. HealthLine: Speech-based Access to Health Information by Low-literate Users. In Proc. IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, India, December 2007.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Gregory Pappas. HealthLine: Towards Speech-based Access to Health Information by Semi-literate Users. In Proc. Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments, Singapore, September 2007.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Chen Ju, Alex Acero. VoicePedia: Towards Speech-based Access to Unstructured Information. In Proc. Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim, Gregory Pappas. Towards Speech Interfaces for Health Information Access by Semi-literate Users. In Proc. AI in ICT for Development, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Stefanie Tomko, and Roni Rosenfeld. Sublime: A Speech- and Language-based Information Management Environment. In Proc. IEEE Int.l Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

Arthur Chan, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Ravishankar Mosur, Alex Rudnicky. Four-Layer Categorization Scheme of Fast GMM Computation Techniques in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems. In Proc. IEEE Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, S. Korea, October 2004.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Nausheen Lotia, Zahra Hayat, and Rajkumar Buyya. Libra: An Economy-driven Job Scheduling System for Clusters. Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 573-590, May 2004.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, Nosheen Ali, Nausheen Lotia, Zahra Hayat, and Rajkumar Buyya. Libra: An Economy-driven Job Scheduling System for Clusters. In Proc. Int.l Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region, Bangalore, India, December 2002.


Email: jsherwan+web @ cs.cmu.edu

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