Human Language Technology
Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo
Dr. Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Human Language Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
voice: 781-981-5581
fax: 781-981-0186
email: ptorres@ll.mit.edu
Dr. Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo joined the Information Systems Technology Group, currently Human Language Technology Group, at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in July 2002 as a technical staff member. At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, he has been involved in a number of areas related to information extraction from speech, including language, dialect and speaker recognition. His current areas of interest include automatic dialect recognition by combining multiple knowledge sources and speaker recognition in low data conditions focusing on forensic speaker recognition. Recently, he has been overseeing the development of software tools for speaker recognition. He was co-chair for the IEEE Odyssey 2006 Workshop in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
From March 1995 to June 1998, he was an instructor at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, where he is still an adjunct professor.
Dr. Torres-Carrasquillo received the B.S. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in 1992, the M.S. degree from Ohio State University in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in 2002 all in electrical engineering.
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