USC

University of Southern California

Viterbi School of Engineering

Signal Analysis And Interpretation Laboratory

People

Faculty
Shrikanth S. Narayanan Director http://sail.usc.edu/shri
Signal Analysis & Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) University of Southern California 3740 McClintock Avenue, Room EEB430 Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564
Phone: (213) 740-6432 Fax: (213) 740-4651
Panayiotis G. Georgiou Research Assistant Professor http://sipi.usc.edu/~georgiou
Signal Analysis & Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) University of Southern California 3740 McClintock Avenue, Room EEB428 Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564
Phone: (213) 740-4654 Fax: (213) 740-4651
Sungbok Lee Research Assistant Professor http://sail.usc.edu/~sungbok
Signal Analysis & Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) Department of Linguistics University of Southern California 3601 Watt Way, GFS 301 Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693
Phone: (213) 821-2721 Fax: (213) 740-9306

SAIL Administrator
Mary Francis Administrator http://mysite.verizon.net/merrywords/
Office: EEB 400
Phone: (213) 740-4146 Fax: (213) 740-4651

Postdocs

Nassos Katsamanis http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/~nassos
Office: EEB427
(213) 740-4148
Michael Proctor http://mproctor.net
Office: EEB413
(213) 703-2318
Dongrui Wu http://www-scf.usc.edu/~dongruiw
Office: EEB413 Office: ICT 206a (Marina Del Rey)
(213) 595-3269

PhD Students
Ozlem Kalinli http://www-scf.usc.edu/~kalinli
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Kyu Jeong Han http://sail.usc.edu/~kyuhan/
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Viktor Rozgic http://www-scf.usc.edu/~rozgic
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Erik Bresch http://www-scf.usc.edu/~bresch/
Office: RTH317
Selina Chu http://www-scf.usc.edu/~selinach
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Emil Ettelaie
Abe Kazemzadeh http://sail.usc.edu/~kazemzad
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Emily Mower http://robotics.usc.edu/~mower
Office: RTH318
Samuel Kim http://biron.usc.edu/~kimsamue
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Matt Black http://sail.usc.edu/~matthepb
Office: RTH320
(585) 314-5811
Prasanta Kumar Ghosh http://www-scf.usc.edu/~prasantg
Office: EEB 405
(213) 821-2433
Andreas Tsiartas
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Chi-Chun (Jeremy) Lee
Office: EEB 413
(213) 740-2318
Angeliki Metallinou http://sail.usc.edu/~metallin
Office: RTH 318
Kartik Audhkhasi http://www-scf.usc.edu/~audhkhas
Office: EEB405
(213) 740-4660
Ming Li http://www-scf.usc.edu/~mingli
Office: RTH320
(626) 551-8687
Adam Lammert http://www-scf.usc.edu/~lammert
Kyle White
Office: RTH320
(479) 633-4911
Vikram Ramanarayanan
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Qun Feng Tan
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477
Bo Xiao http://sites.google.com/site/xiaobothu/
Office: RTH320
(213) 400-2559
Danny Bone
Office: RTH320
(213) 740-3477

Master Students
Jangwon Kim
Office: RTH320
(213) 703-7883
Dhaval Shah
(213) 300-3114

Undergraduate Students
Jeannette Chang (2007)

Graduates of SAIL
         PhD Students
Joseph Tepperman Research Scientist at Rosetta Stone, Denver, CO http://sail.usc.edu/~tepperma
Jorge Silva (2008) Assistant Professor at University of Chile http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~josilva/
Chuping Liu (2008) Logitech, Vancouver, WA
Carlos Busso (2008) Assistant Professor at University of Texas, Dallas http://www-scf.usc.edu/~busso/
Erdem Unal (2008) http://www-scf.usc.edu/~unal
Vivek Rangarajan (2008) Scientist at BBN Technologies, Boston, MA
Shankar Ananthakrishnan (2008) Scientist at BBN Technologies, Boston, MA
Shiva Sundaram (2008) Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany
Murtaza Bulut (2007) Senior Scientist at Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands
JongHo Shin (2007)
Abhinav Sethy (2007) Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
Chartchai Meesookho (2007)
Dagen Wang (2006) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
Serdar Yildirim(2006) Assistant Professor at Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey
Soonil Kwon (2005) System Technology Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Chul Min Lee (2004) LG Electronics
Naveen Srinivasamurthy (2003) Software Engineer at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA
Hsuan-Huei (Maverick) Shih (2003) MAVs Lab, Taiwan
         MS Students
Tom Murray (2008) Software Engineer at Google
Stephen Tobin (2007)
Farhad Farahani (2005)
Jeff Haynes (2002)
Alvertos Diamantopoulos (2001)
         Postdocs
Matteo Gerosa (2007) Bruno Kessler Foundation - IRST, Center for Scientific and Technological Research, Italy
Scott Millward (2005)

Undergraduate Research Program Alumni
  • Abe Kazemzadeh (2000-2002)
  • Ahmet Erten (2001-2003)
  • Ryan Cunninghem (2000-2002)
  • Dylan Gould (2000-2002)
  • Josh Katz (2001-2002)
  • Sudha Arunachalam (2000-2001)
  • Jason Adams (2004-2005)
  • Nathan Go (2005)
  • Nirali Shah (2003-2005)
  • Joe Tepperman
  • Erdem Unal
  • Sonia Khurana +
  • Marni Landes*

SAIL Visiting Scholars
  • Tsuneo Kato, KDDI R&D Labs Inc., 2008, Analysis of Articulatory Strokes for ASR
  • Arthur Pouzet, Groupe ESIEE Paris, 2006, Processing and tracking realtime MR images
  • Andreu Fernandez, University of Catalunya, Barcelona, 2006, “Statistical methods for Speech Processing” (Diploma Thesis)
  • Michael Grimm, Karlsruhe University, 2005, “Emotions in speech” (Ph.D. student)
  • David Suunderman, Siemens, Germany, 2005, “Signal transformation for synthesis” (Ph.D. student)
  • Matteo Gerosa, IRST/University of Padova, 2005, “Modeling and recognizing children’s speech (Ph.D student)
  • Sergi Hernanz, University of Catalunya, Barcelona, 2004, “Robust Speaker Recognition” (Diploma Thesis)
* Undergraduate research program + Merit research program