The main goal of our research is to develop advanced techniques and systems of spoken language processing to enable natural human-computer communication and to facilitate effective human-human communication.

Toward this end, we conduct research activities over a broad range of topics, including: Speech signal processing Statistical modeling and estimation of acoustic and language models Optimization search algorithms Software systems for time-space efficient and accurate automatic speech recognition Machine learning techniques for other types of data processing problems, such as landmine detection and land cover classification