Shrikanth (Shri) S. Narayanan

Andrew J.  Viterbi Professor of Engineering

University of Southern California

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Professor of Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology

Director, Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab  (SAIL)

URL: http://sail.usc.edu

3740 McClintock Avenue, Room EEB 430

Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564

Tel: 213-740-6432, Fax: 213-740-4651

Email : shri@sipi.usc.edu

Shrikanth Narayanan received his M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D., all in electrical engineering, from UCLA in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively. From 1995-2000 he was with AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park (formerly AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill) -- first as a Senior Member and later as a Principal member of its Technical Staff. Currently, he is a Professor at the Signal and Image Processing Institute of USC's Electrical Engineering department and holds joint appointments as Professor in Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology. He was a Research Area Director of the Integrated Media Systems Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center at USC, and was the Research Principal for the USC Pratt and Whitney Institute for Collaborative Engineering,  a unique partnership between academia and industry  (2003-2007).

Shri Narayanan is currently an Editor for the Computer, Speech and Language Journal and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and the Journal of Acoustical Society of America having previously served an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Speech and Audio Processing (2000-2004) and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2005-2008). He holds positions on the Speech Communication and Acoustic Standards committees of the Acoustical Society of America and the Advisory Council of the International Speech Communication Association, having previously served on the Speech Processing Technical Committee (2003-2007) and on the Multimedia Signal Processing technical committee (2005-2008) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. At USC, he was Chair of the Joint Provost-Senate University Research Committee (2006-09) and, a Past President of the Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society (2007-08).

Shri Narayanan is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and Eta Kappa Nu. He holds the first Viterbi Professorship in Engineering at USC. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, USC Engineering Junior Research Award, USC Electrical Engineering Northrop-Grumman Research award, a Mellon award for mentoring excellence, an Okawa Research Award, an IBM Faculty Award and a faculty fellowship from the USC Center for Interdisciplinary research. He is a recepient of a 2005 Best Paper award and a 2009 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing society and was selected as Signal Processing Society Distnguished Lecturer for 2010-2011. Papers co-authored with his students have won best student paper awards at InterSpeech 2009-Emotion Challenge, IEEE DCOSS 2009, IEEE MMSP 2007, IEEE MMSP 2006, ICASSP 2005 and ICSLP 2002. His research interests are in signals and systems modeling with an interdisciplinary emphasis on speech, audio, language, multimodal and biomedical problems and applications with direct societal relevance. His laboratory is supported by federal  (NSF, NIH, DARPA, ONR, Army and DHS)  and   industry grants. He has published over 350 papers and has 7 granted and 10 pending U.S. patents.