KEVIN KAIPING DUH

University of Washington, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Paul Allen Center, Room AE100R, Campus Box 352500, Seattle, WA 98195

Email: kevinduh (at) u.washington.edu Web: http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/people/duh

OBJECTIVE To obtain a summer internship in speech/language processing, machine learning, or web search.

EDUCATION

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

PhD program in Electrical Engineering, Jan 2004 – present.

Topic: Learning to rank with partially-labeled data (Advisor: Dr. Katrin Kirchhoff)

Rice University, Houston, Texas.

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2003.

Concentration: Signal and Image Processing.

Coursework: Statistical Learning, Graphical Models, Speech Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Stochastic Processes, Information Theory, Computational Biology, Convex Optimization

Computer Skills: C/C++, Perl, Matlab, Python, Linux development

Language Skills: Chinese (fluent), Japanese (proficient)

EXPERIENCE

Signals, Speech, and Language Interpretation Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Graduate Research Assistant (Jan 2004 – present)

Pursuing research in machine learning & statistical modeling for applications in machine translation, speech recognition, and information retrieval. Advisor: Prof. Katrin Kirchhoff.

Microsoft Research, Knowledge Tools Group, Redmond, WA

Research Intern (Summer 2007)

Research on machine learning methods for improving operating systems responsiveness.

Advisor: Dr. Sumit Basu and Dr. John Dunagan. Manager: Dr. John Platt.

Microsoft Research, Natural Language Processing Group, Redmond, WA

Research Intern (Summer 2005)

Developed dependency parsers for Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, and investigated novel discriminative training methods (Bayes Point Machines). Mentor: Dr. Simon Corston-Oliver. Manager: Dr. Bill Dolan

NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) Cyberspace Laboratory, Yokosuka, Japan

Visiting Research Intern (July 2003 – Dec 2003)

Prototyped a text-to-singing voice synthesizer that takes arbitrary lyrics and score as inputs and generates human-like singing voice as output. Commercial system now available: http://www.utabara.com

Digital Signal Processing Research Group, Rice University, Houston, TX

Undergraduate Researcher (Sept 2002 – May 2003)

Pursued research in multi-scale image analysis using wedgelets, with applications in medical imaging. Implemented fast C code with Matlab interface. Advisors: Prof. Rob Nowak, Becca Willett.

Lincoln National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA

Intern (Summer 2002)

Developed least-squares algorithms for estimating timing errors in GPS satellites and receivers. Results are used for ionospheric modeling and calibration of MIT’s satellite-tracking radar. Advisor: Dr. Anthea Coster

HONORS & National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005

ACTIVITIES Workshop Co-Chair, ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop

Program Committee: ACL (’06,’07,’08), EMNLP’07, HLT’07, AISTATS’07, IEEE ISSPIT’06

Chairman, IEEE Rice Student Branch (2002-2003)

ATJ Bridging Scholarship for Study Abroad in Japan (Spring 2001)

AMD VLSI Design Contest Winner& Best ECE Senior Project (Rice University, 2003)

PUBLICATION For publications, please see http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/people/duh/