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Since 1998 : Assistant Professor, University of Lorraine, IUT Charlemagne
Research works are performed at LORIA/INRIA, Multispeech team
My research interests: speech recognition, acoustic and language modeling, natural language processing.

Education

  • 2005: HDR, University Nancy 2. Title: « Contributions to speech recognition ».
  • 1997-1998: Post-doctoral position (INRIA grant), Carnegie Mellon University
    Robust Recognition (Richard Stern), Computer Science Department, CMU, Pittsburgh,  USA
  • 1994-1997: PhD Thesis in Computer Science, University Henri Poincaré Nancy 1
    Title: « Extension of Mixture Stochastic Trajectory Models  for Continuous Speech Recognition »
    (unfortunately only in French)
  • 1994: Master Degree in Computer Science, University Nancy I
    Title: « Stochastic scheduling: Markov decision process and  the Gittins index »

Professional Experience

  • 1988-1992: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Computer Science, University of Kazan, Russia
  • 1998-present: Assistant Professor, University of Lorraine, IUT Charlemagne research at LORIA/INRIA, Multispeech team

My Research Interests

  • Acoustic and linguistic modeling of speech
  • Automatic speech recognition robust to noise and speaker
  • Transcription of broadcast news
  • Exploitation of context for recognition
  • Deep Neural Networks