Tara N. Sainath is an American computer scientist whose research involves

deep learning Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...

applied to

speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also ...

. She is a principal research scientist at Google Research.

Education and career

Sainath was a student of electrical and engineering and computer science at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

, where she received a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in 2005, and a Ph.D. in 2009. Her master's thesis was ''Acoustic Landmark Detection and Segmentation using the McAulay-Quatieri Sinusoidal Model'', supervised by Timothy Hazen, and her doctoral dissertation was ''Applications of Broad Class Knowledge for Noise Robust Speech Recognition'', supervised by Victor Zue. She worked for

IBM Research IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American Multinational corporation, multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York ...

at the

Thomas J. Watson Research Center The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for IBM Research. Its main laboratory is in Yorktown Heights, New York, 38 miles (61 km) north of New York City. It also operates facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Albany, ...

before moving to Google Research.

Recognition

Sainath was elected both as an

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

and as a fellow of the

International Speech Communication Association The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) is a non-profit organization and one of the two main professional associations for speech communication science and technology, the other association being the IEEE Signal Processing Society ...

in 2022, in both cases "for contributions to deep learning for automatic speech recognition".

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