Dr. Richard Stern

Biography

Richard M. Stern received his S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, an M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1977, all in Electrical Engineering. He has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University since 1977 and currently holds the position of professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, and the Language Technologies Institute, in addition to being a lecturer in the School of Music. His current research focuses on spoken language systems, particularly techniques for making automatic speech recognition robust to changes in the acoustical environment. Alongside his work in speech recognition, Stern has extensively researched psychoacoustics and is known for his theoretical contributions to binaural perception. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). He served as the ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2008-2009 and received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 1992. Stern has also been involved as the general chair for Interspeech 2006 and is a member of the Audio Engineering Society.

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