James R. Glass
Principal research scientist
areas of expertise: automatic speech recognition
James R. Glass obtained his SM and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1985 and 1988, respectively. After starting in the Speech Communication Group at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, he has worked since 1989 at the Laboratory for Computer Science, now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Currently, he is a principal research scientist at CSAIL, where he heads the Spoken Language Systems Group. He is also a lecturer in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His primary research interests are in the area of speech communication and human-computer interaction, centered on automatic speech recognition and spoken language understanding. He has lectured, taught courses, supervised students and published extensively in these areas.
He is currently a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee, an ISCA Distinguished Lecturer, and has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
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