Alex Waibel
Alex Waibel | |
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Waibel in 2018 | |
| Born | 2 May 1956 Heidelberg, Germany |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS), Carnegie Mellon University (MS, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Raj Reddy |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Computer Science |
| Sub-discipline | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Notable students | Laurence Devillers |
Alexander Waibel (born 2 May 1956) is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Waibel's research focuses on automatic speech recognition, translation and human-machine interaction. His work has introduced cross-lingual communication systems, such as consecutive and simultaneous interpreting systems on a variety of platforms. In fundamental research on machine learning, he is known for the Time Delay Neural Network (TDNN), the first Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained by gradient descent, using backpropagation. Alex Waibel introduced the TDNN in 1987 at ATR in Japan.