Biography

Michael Picheny Michael Picheny is the Manager of the Speech and Language Algorithms Group in the Human Language Technologies Group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Michael has worked in the speech recognition area since 1981, joining IBM after finishing his doctorate at MIT. He has been heavily involved in the development of almost all of IBM's recognition systems, ranging from the world's first real-time large vocabulary discrete system through IBM's current ViaVoice product line. He has published numerous papers in both journals and conferences on almost all aspects of speech recognition. He has received several awards from IBM for his work, including three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and two Research Division Awards. He is the co-holder of over 20 patents and was named a Master Inventor by IBM in 1995 and again in 2000. Michael served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing from 1986-1989, is currently the chairman of the Speech Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.