Abe Kazemzadeh, Computer Scientist

Address: USC Signal and Image Processing Institute, SAIL Lab.

**** ********** ***., ***. ***, Los Angeles, CA 90089

url: http://sail.usc.edu/~kazemzad

Email: abpa8a@r.postjobfree.com

Education

2005-2011: Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of Southern California (Completion

in Spring 2012)

2005: M.S. in Computational Linguistics, University of Southern California

2002: B.A. in Linguistics, Natural Science Minor, University of Southern California

Addn'l Huadong Shifan Daxue (Shanghai, China), University of Minnesota (Minneapolis,

Coursework: MN), and University of Wisconsin Eau Claire (Eau Claire, WI)

Professional Experience

Fall 2002 - Research Assistant, University of Southern California, SAIL Lab, Supervisor:

present: Shrikanth Narayanan

Developed speech processing techniques for child literacy assessment.

Modeled human-computer interaction in spoken dialog systems.

Developed methods for recognizing emotion in text.

Created applications for natural language human-computer interaction.

2009 - 2010: Speech Recognition Audio Engineer, Alelo Tactical Language Training, Science

team, Supervisor: Kevin Perry

Developed speech processing techniques for language assessment.

Developed testing and data warehousing framework for speech interaction data.

Summer 2008: Research Intern, AT&T Shannon Laboratory (Florham Park, NJ), Speech

Processing Division, Supervisor: Michael Johnston

Utilized social network structure for speech recognition grammar rescoring for a

mobile, movies-on-demand application.

Applied for patent.

Summer 2007: C++ Programmer, CLAM Project, Google Summer of Code, Advisor: Xavier

Amatriain

Programmed speech processing capabilities into an open-source C++ sound library.

Summers Research Assistant, USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), Supervisor:

2002, 2004: Andrew Gordon

Studied the colloquial language used to express theory of mind concepts.

Summer 2001: English Teacher in Shanghai, NSEP Boren Scholar/CIEE Study Abroad Program

Developed lessons and taught English as a second language for students of all

ages.

Honors and Awards

Fiorella De Rosis Best Doctoral Consortium paper, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

(ACII2011) for Toward a Computational Model for Natural Language Descriptions of Emotions.

Second Best Student Paper in International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 2002 for

Shin, J., S. Narayanan, L. Gerber, A. Kazemzadeh and D. Byrd (2002) Analysis of user behavior

under errorful conditions in spoken dialogs.

USC Renaissance scholar.

National Security Education Project (NSEP) Boren Fellowship to study in China.

Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) undergraduate research fellowship.

National Merit Scholar.

Professional Societies and Services

Member: IEEE, ACM, and Acoustical Society of America.

Volunteer, Foundation for Arts, Mentoring, Leadership, and Innovation (FAMLI) and One Laptop Per

Child (OLPC).

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary member, Marina Del Rey Flotilla (District 11SR, Division 12, Flotilla

12-7).

Volunteer, Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), 2008-2012.

Reviewer for conferences and journals.

Vice-President of USC Graduate Students in Linguistics, 2003-2004.

Preceptorship program, L.A. County/USC hospital, 1999-2000.

AED Pre-Medical Fraternity, 2000-2002.

Human Language Competence

Native: English

Fluent: Spanish (Latin American and Iberian)

Intermediate: Mandarin Chinese

Limited Indonesian, Farsi, French, Dari, Pashto, Iraqi Arabic, Turkish

(work/travel):

Artificial Language Competence

Advanced: python, Perl5/CGI, Javascript, Bash, Matlab, formal logic.

Significant C/C++, Java, TCL, R, PHP.

experience:

Some Lisp/Scheme, ActionScript, Erlang.

experience:

Publications

Thesis:

Natural Language Description of Emotions. To be defended summer/fall 2012.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

A Sequential Bayesian Dialog Agent for Computational Ethnography, Abe Kazemzadeh, James

Gibson, Juanchen Li, Sungbok Lee, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan, In Proceedings of

Interspeech, Portland, OR, Sept. 2012.

Toward a Computational Model for Natural Language Descriptions of Emotions (Precis of

Dissertation Proposal), Abe Kazemzadeh, In Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent

Interaction (ACII2011),Memphis, TN, Oct. 2011. Fiorella de Rosis Best Doctoral Consortium Paper

Award.

Emotion Twenty Questions (EMO20Q): Toward a Crowd-sourced Theory of Emotions Abe

Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of

Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2011),Memphis, TN, Oct. 2011.

EMO20Q Questioner Agent Abe Kazemzadeh, James Gibson, Panayiotis Georgiou, Sungbok Lee,

and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

(ACII2011),Memphis, TN, Oct. 2011

Determining Which Question To Ask, with the Help of Spectral Graph Theory Abe Kazemzadeh,

Sungbok Lee, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of Interspeech,

Florence, Italy. August, 2011.

An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System to Translate Emotion Words from Spanish to English. Abe

Kazemzadeh In Proceedings of FUZZ-IEEE at The World Conference on Computational Intelligence

(WCCI), Barcelona, Jul. 2010.

An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System to Translate between emotion-related vocabularies. Abe

Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of First Interspeech,

Brisbane, Australia, Sept. 2008.

Using model trees for evaluating dialog error conditions based on acoustic speech information. Abe

Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of First International

Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Santa Barbara, CA, October 2006.

Automatic detection of voice onset time contrasts for use in pronunciation assessment. Abe

Kazemzadeh, Joseph Tepperman, Jorge Silva, Hong You, Sungbok Lee, Abeer Alwan, and

Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

Tball data collection: the making of a young children's speech corpus. Abe Kazemzadeh, Hong You,

Markus Iseli, Barbara Jones, Xiaodong Cui, Margaret Heritage, Patti Price, Elaine Andersen,

Shrikanth Narayanan, and Abeer Alwan. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October

2005.

Acoustic correlates of user response to errors in human-computer dialogues. Abe Kazemzadeh,

Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of IEEE ASRU, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin

Islands, December 2003.

A text-free approach to assessing nonnative intonation. Joseph Tepperman, Abe Kazemzadeh, and

Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

A Bayesian network classifier for word-level reading assessment Joseph Tepperman, Matthew

Black, Sungbok Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Matteo Gerosa, Margaret Heritage, Abeer Alwan, and

Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

A system for technology based assessment of language and literacy in young children: the role of

multiple information sources. Abeer Alwan, Yijian Bai, Matt Black, Larry Casey, Matteo Gerosa,

Margaret Heritage, Markus Iseli, Barbara Jones, Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth

Narayanan, Patti Price, Joseph Tepperman, and Shizhen Wang. In Proceedings of IEEE

International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007.

A study of emotional speech articulation using a fast magnetic resonance imaging technique.

Sungbok Lee, Erik Bresch, Jason Adams, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In

Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

Pronunciation verification of children's speech for automatic literacy assessment. Joseph

Tepperman, Jorge Silva, Abe Kazemzadeh, Hong You, Sungbok Lee, Abeer Alwan, and Shrikanth

Narayanan. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

An articulatory study of emotional speech production. Sungbok Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Abe

Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October

2005.

Investigating the role of phoneme-level modifications in emotional speech resynthesis. Murtaza

Bulut, Carlos Busso, Serdar Yildirim, Abe Kazemzadeh, Chul Min Lee, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth

Narayanan. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005.

An articulatory study of emotional speech production. Sungbok Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Abe

Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October

2005.

Pronunciation variations of spanish-accented english spoken by young children. Hong You, Abeer

Alwan, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon,

Portugal, October 2005.

Emotion recognition based on phoneme classes. C. M. Lee, S. Yildirim, M. Bulut, A. Kazemzadeh, C.

Busso, Z. Deng, S. Lee, and S. Narayanan. In Proceedings of ICSLP, Jeju, Korea, October 2004.

An acoustic study of emotions expressed in speech. S. Yildirim, M. Bulut, C. M. Lee, A.

Kazemzadeh, C. Busso, Z. Deng, S. Lee, and S. Narayanan. In Proceedings of ICSLP, Jeju, Korea,

October 2004.

Recognizing expressions of commonsense psychology in English Text Andrew Gordon, Abe

Kazemzadeh, Anish Nair, and Milena Petrova Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2003) Sapporo, Japan, July 7-12, 2003.

Analysis of user behavior under error conditions in spoken dialogs. Jongho Shin, Shrikanth

Narayanan, Laurie Gerber, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Dani Byrd. In Proceedings of ICSLP, Denver, CO,

2002.

Abstracts:

Recognition of voice onset time for use in pronunciation modeling. Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee,

and Shrikanth Narayanan. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2005.

Some articulatory details of emotional speech. Sungbok Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Abe

Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2005.

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