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Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is a University Professor holding the Niki Max Nikias Chair at the University of Southern California (USC), where he serves on the inaugural Vice President Presidential Initiatives Senior Leadership Team. His appointments include Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and joint positions in the Department of Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and Pediatrics. He also held the inaugural Viterbi Professorship in Engineering at USC from 2007 to 2016. Narayanan has previously worked at AT&T Labs-Research and has been a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google. He has been recognized as a Fellow of several prestigious organizations and has received numerous awards for his contributions, including the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement. His research interests focus on interdisciplinary topics including human-centered sensing, machine intelligence, speech and language processing, and biomedical signal processing. He has published over 1000 papers and holds 19 granted U.S. patents, co-founding startups aimed at improving telecommunications and mental health care delivery. Narayanan has also served in various editorial and leadership roles in professional societies and has been actively engaged in mentoring and community service.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Held the position of Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, also served joint appointments in other departments.
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