Ivan Bulyko

Ivan Bulyko (M'99) received the B.A. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Suffolk University, Boston, MA, in 1997, the M.S. degree in computer engineering from Boston University in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2002. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Washington. His research interests include speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural language processing. His most recent work focused on improving ${\rm N}$-gram language models of conversational English and Mandarin by obtaining additional training text from the Internet and by using class-dependent interpolation of ${\rm N}$-grams. Dr. Bulyko is a member of Delta Alpha Pi.