Luciana Ferrer Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact Information

SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue (EJ125)
Menlo Park, CA 94025 (USA)
Tel: (650) 859-5949
Email: first letter of my name followed by my last name, at speech.sri.com (lfe…@speech.sri.com)

Studies

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, 2009

• Electrical Engineer from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, 2001

Research Interests

• Statistical Signal Processing

• Machine learning

• Information Theory

• Bioinformatics

I am currently splitting my time at SRI between the Speech Technology and Research Lab (Starlab) and the Bioinformatics Research Group (BRG). At the Starlab, I am mostly focusing on modeling of prosodic characteristics for speech and speaker recognition. At BRG, I am applying machine learning techniques to the problem of metabolic pathway discovery.

Publications

• Ph.D. thesis

• Book chapters

• Journal publications

• Refereed publications in conference proceedings

Patents

• Method and Apparatus for Speaker Recognition
  US Pat. 11758650

• Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation and Endpointing of Speech for Speech Recognition Applications
  Docket SRI/4316, patent application filed.

• Duration Modeling of Lexical and Sublexical Units for Speaker Recognition
  SRI Invention disclosure filed; planned patent application.