Dr. Saraçlar received his B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 1994. He earned both his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA in 1997 and 2001 respectively. He worked on automatic speech recognition for multimedia analysis systems from 2000 to 2005 at the AT&T Labs—Research. In 2005, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Bogazici University as an assistant professor. Dr. Saraçlar’s main research interests include all aspects of speech recognition, its applications, as well as related fields such as speech and language processing, human-computer interaction and machine learning. He currently leads a TUBITAK funded project on Turkish Broadcast News Transcription and Retrieval. He authored and co-authored more than two dozen papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has filed four patents, both internationally and in the US. He has served as a reviewer and program committee member for various speech and language processing conferences and all the major speech processing journals. He was the Area Chair for the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP) in 2005. He is currently a member of IEEE and ISCA. He was recently elected to serve as member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee (2007-2009).
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