Dr. Larry Heck

Biography

Larry P. Heck is a Professor with a joint appointment in the Schools of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds the Rhesa S. Farmer Distinguished Chair in Advanced Computing Concepts and is an Eminent Scholar for the Georgia Research Alliance. Heck received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1986 and both his Master's and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech. He has received the Distinguished Engineer Award from Texas Tech University and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Award in 2020. His professional experience includes significant roles such as Senior Research Engineer at SRI, VP of R&D at Nuance, VP of Search Advertising Sciences at Yahoo!, Chief Scientist for Microsoft Speech products, and Principal Scientist at Google Research before serving as CEO of Viv Labs and SVP at Samsung until 2021. Heck's research interests focus on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Conversational Systems, and Speech/Speaker Recognition.

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