Lassonde researchers are making your phone pay better attention to you.
Hui Jiang
Professor from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his former PhD student, Ossama Abdel-Hamid, have received the .
This award is widely recognized as the most valued paper award in the field of signal processing.
Published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, the paper titled  explores the reduction of error in speech recognition software using the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) model.
Abdel-Hamid and Jiang are pioneers of this research and their work has been widely cited over the past few years.
This award-winning paper constitutes the main part of Abdel-Hamid's dissertation, defended at 91ÑÇÉ« in 2014. He is currently working as a research scientist in the Siri group at Apple.