Speech Technologies Seminar 2008
July 02, 2008
Organized by IBM Haifa Research
Lab
Dr. David Nahamoo
David Nahamoo is responsible for IBM Research technical and
business directions in the speech technologies. He joined
IBM Research in 1982 as a Research Staff Member. In 1986, he
became manager of the Speech Recognition Modeling team. In
1993, he was appointed Senior Manager of the Human Language
Technologies Group, of which he became the Department Group
Manager in 1998. From 1993 to 2006, he was responsible for
delivering speech technologies to IBM Divisions for desktop,
embedded, and server based speech products. During these
years, he managed a team of 60 scientists at IBM Watson
Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York and a team of
20 researchers and developers in Prague. David was the
Interim General Manager of the Speech Business Unit in 1993
and since then has been a core team member of the Business
Unit and later on the Research representative on the IBM
Software Group speech team.
In 2007, he was appointed as the Speech CTO and the Speech
Business Strategist for IBM Research. In this new role,
David is responsible for establishing IBM Research global
strategy in the speech area and identifying business
opportunities across IBM software and services businesses,
focusing on Contact Centers, Collaboration, and Content
Delivery solutions. He provides technical direction for
Conversational and Multimodal Interaction Technologies at
IBM Research labs worldwide.
He holds 25 patents and has published more than 55 technical
papers in scientific journals. He has also been very active
in the popular and trade press as well as on TV and radio
with more than 100 interviews.
Dr. Nahamoo was appointed an IBM Fellow in May of 2008. He
is a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Fellow of
the IEEE. He has also been a Member of the Spoken Language
Coordinating Committee, DARPA, and of the Speech Technical
Committee of the ASSP Society as well as the Associate
Editor of Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing. In 2001, he received the IEEE Signal Processing
Best Paper Award. His current research interests include
conversational and multimodal technologies and tools, speech
solutions and services, and speech user interfaces.
David Nahamoo received his BSc degree from Tehran
University, Iran, an MSc from Imperial College of London,
England, and his PhD in 1982 from Purdue University in
Indiana; all of his studies were in electrical engineering.
