Dr. Richard Stern

Biography

Richard M. Stern received the S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, the M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972, and the Ph.D. from MIT in 1977, all in electrical engineering. He has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University since 1977 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, and the Language Technologies Institute, as well as a Lecturer in the School of Music. Dr. Stern's current research focuses on spoken language systems, particularly the development of techniques for automatic speech recognition that are robust to changes in the acoustical environment. In addition to his work in speech recognition, he has extensive experience in psychoacoustics and is known for his theoretical work in binaural perception. Dr. Stern is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). He served as ISCA's Distinguished Lecturer in 2008-2009 and received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 1992. He has also served as the General Chair for Interspeech in 2006 and is a member of the Audio Engineering Society.

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