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        Presentations and Invited Talks    |    Demos and Posters    |    Other Activities    |   

Invited Talks and Conference Presentations
  • "“Usable speech recognition: can human improve ASR?", Invited talk,
    • December 2007: Computer Science / Centre for Management Informatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    • November 2007: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
  • August 2006: "“Statistical Analysis for Hypothesis Testing: A Case Study"”, Invited talk,Statistics Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
  • April 2006: Paper presentation at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems -- CHI, Montreal, Canada (Best of CHI Nominee)
  • July 2004: Paper presentation at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Barcelona, Spain
  • August 2003: Paper presentation at the Sixth Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference - PACLING, Halifax, Canada (Best Paper Award)
  • May 2003: Paper presentation at the Joined Third International Conference on Human Language Technology / Third Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Edmonton, Canada
  • October 2000: Paper presentation at the Fourth International Conference on Technical Informatics, Timisoara, Romania
Demonstrations and Poster Presentations
  • August 2007: Poster presentation at the 10th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology – EuroSpeech / INTERSPEECH Conference, Antwerp, Belgium
  • November 2006: Poster presentation at the 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI, Banff, Alberta, Canada
  • November 2006: Research demo at the 20th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW, Banff, Alberta, Canada
  • September 2006: Poster presentation at the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing – INTERSPEECH / ICSLP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Other Professional Activities
  • 2006-present: Reviewer for the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (main conference and workshop papers)
  • November 2006: Volunteer for the 20th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW, Banff, Alberta, Canada
  • Summer 2005, 2006: Supervision of undergraduate students conducting summer research as USRA recipients in the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto
  • 2004-present: Part of the ePresence webcast production and development team (webcast interface development, audio and video engineering, production of live webcasts)
  • July-September 2004: Research visit to Avaya Labs Research, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA (Topic: Robust Parsing for Spoken Language Understanding)
  • May 2000: Member of the Organizing Committee for the Student Scientific Symposium, SCSS 2000, Timisoara, Romania
  • October 1997: Research visit to the Institute of Computational Linguistics, Saarbruecken University, Germany