Makis (Gerasimos) Potamianos

Biography:

Makis (Gerasimos) Potamianos was born in Athens, Greece, on November, 23, 1965. He received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1988, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. His Ph.D. Thesis is entitled "Stochastic Simulation Algorithms for Partition Function Estimation of Markov Random Field Images", and has been completed under the supervision of Professor John Goutsias with the Image Analysis and Communications Laboratory.

From the fall of 1994 till the summer of 1996, he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Language and Speech Processing working with Professor Frederick Jelinek on decision tree based language models and smoothing techniques.

From August 1996 till August 1999, he has been a Senior Member of Technical Staff with the Speech and Image Processing Services Laboratory at AT&T Labs-Research , working on robust techniques for audio-visual automatic speech recognition.

In September 1999, he joined the Human Language Technologies group at IBM Research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member, currently continuing his work on audio-visual speech recognition.