Patrick Nguyen

Patrick Nguyen

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Patrick Nguyen is a research scientist in Google Research, Mountain View, CA. Prior to joining Google, he was with Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA from 2004-2010. Prior to that, he was working at the Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory from 2000-2004, in Santa Barbara, CA. In 1998 he started a company which provided a market-maker platform for real-time foreign exchange trading. He received his Doctorate degree from the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (EPFL) in 2002. His area of expertise revolves around statistical processing human language, and in particular speech recognition. He participated in NIST competitions, notably contributing to the winning machine translation competition in English to Chinese in 2008. He co-authored about 15 granted patents and numerous publications. He serves a reviewer for all major speech and natural language research publications. He served in the organizing committee of ASRU 2011. In 2010, he co-lead with Geoffrey Zweig the CLSP-JHU workshop on Segmental Conditional Random Fields for Speech Recognition. He currently serves in the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee.

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