Abdel-rahman Mohamed

I'm a Ph.D student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto working under the supervision of Gerald Penn and Geoffrey Hinton.
you can email me at (asamir at department name dot university name dot edu).

Bachground

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. From Electronics and Communication Engineering department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 2004 and 2007. From 2004 I was working in the speech reseach group at RDI Company, Egypt. Then I joined the ESAT-PSI speech group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. At Septemper 2008 I started my PhD at the University of Toronto.

Research interests

• Machine Learning.
• Automatic Speech Recognition.

Publications

• Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey Hinton, Gerald Penn, "Understanding how Deep Belief Networks perform acoustic modelling", in ICASSP 2012, accepted.
• Ossama Abdel-Hamid, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Hui Jiang, Gerald Penn, "Applying convolutional neural networks concepts to hybrid NN-HMM model for speech recognition", in ICASSP 2012, accepted.
• Yichuan Tang, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, "Multiresolution Deep Belief Network", in AISTATS 2012, accepted.
• Tara N. Sainath, Brian Kingsbury, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Petr Fousek, Petr Novak, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, "Making Deep Belief Networks Effective for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition," in ASRU, December 2011. [pdf]
• Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Tara N. Sainath, George Dahl, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Michael A. Picheny, "Deep Belief Networks using Discriminative Features for Phone Recognition", in ICASSP 2011. [pdf]
• Abdel-rahman Mohamed, George Dahl, Geoffrey Hinton, "Acoustic Modeling using Deep Belief Networks". Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. [pdf]
• George Dahl, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey Hinton, "Phone Recognition with the Mean-Covariance Restricted Boltzmann Machine", In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23, 2010, 469-477. [pdf]
• Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Dong Yu, Li Deng,"Investigation of Full-Sequence Training of Deep Belief Networks for Speech Recognition", in Interspeech 2010, 2846-2849. [pdf]
• Li Deng, Mike Seltzer, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey Hinton,"Binary Coding of Speech Spectrograms Using a Deep Auto-encoder", in Interspeech 2010, 1692-1695. [pdf]
• Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey Hinton,"Phone recognition using Restricted Boltzmann Machines", in ICASSP 2010, 4354-4357. [pdf]
• Abdel-rahman Mohamed, George Dahl, Geoffrey Hinton,"Deep Belief Networks for phone recognition", in NIPS Workshop on Deep Learning for Speech Recognition and Related Applications, Whistler, BC, Canada, December 2009.[pdf]
• Jacques Duchateau, Yuk On Kong, Leen Cleuren, Lukas Latacz, Jan Roelens, Abdurrahman Samir, Kris Demuynck, Pol Ghesquiere, Werner Verhelst and Hugo Van hamme. "Developing a Reading Tutor: Design and Evaluation of Dedicated Speech Recognition and Synthesis Modules". Speech Communication, Volume 51, Issue 10, October 2009, 985-994.
• Abdurrahman Samir, Jacques Duchateau, Hugo Van hamme (2008): "Discriminative Model Combination and Language Model Selection in a Reading Tutor for Children", in INTERSPEECH-2008, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 2795-2798.[pdf]
• Abdurrahman Samir, Sherif Mahdy Abdou, Ahmed Husien Khalil, Mohsen Rashwan (2007): "Enhancing usability of CAPL system for qur'an recitation learning", in INTERSPEECH-2007, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 214-217.[pdf]
• Sherif Mahdy Abdou, Salah Eldeen Hamid, Mohsen Rashwan, Abdurrahman Samir, Ossama Abdel-Hamid, Mostafa Shahin, Waleed Nazih (2006): "Computer aided pronunciation learning system using speech recognition techniques", in INTERSPEECH-2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pp. 1888-1891.[pdf]