Nelson Morgan

Nelson Morgan, Deputy Director of ICSI

Deputy Director of ICSI
morgan @ icsi.berkeley.edu

Nelson Morgan is the deputy director and vice president of ICSI as well as a professor at UC Berkeley. He led the speech research effort at ICSI from 1988 through 2012 and has been working in speech processing since 1980. With Hervé Bourlard, he was an originator of the "hybrid system" approach to speech recognition (neural networks used probabilistically with HMMs), and with Hynek Hermansky was the co-inventor of signal processing techniques that were used in millions of cell phones. He served as director of ICSI from 1999 to 2011.

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Work Experience

  • Deputy Director, ICSI, present
  • Director, ICSI, 1999-2011
  • Professor in Residence, Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2000-present
  • Speech Group Leader, ICSI, 1988-2012
  • Chief Engineer, EEG Systems Lab, 1984-1988
  • Speech Researcher, National Semiconductor, 1980-1984

Education

  • PhD, UC Berkeley, 1980
  • MS, UC Berkeley, 1979
  • BS, UC Berkeley, 1977

Awards, Honors, and Significant Achievements

  • More than 200 publications, including three books
  • Graduated 18 PhDs, 3 MSs, and numerous postdoctoral fellows
  • Holds patents in audio, speech, and biomedical signal processing methods
  • Co-originator of the hybrid HMM/ANN approach to speech recognition
  • Co-inventor of RASTA signal processing
  • Former co-Editor-in-Chief, Speech Communication
  • Member, International Advisory Board for the National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Board for IDIAP
  • Member, International Speech Communication Association Advisory Council
  • IEEE Best Paper Award, Signal Processing Magazine, 1997
  • Fellow, IEEE
  • Fellow, International Speech Communication Association