Jiri Navratil

Research Staff Member, Conversational Biometrics Group
Human Language Technologies
IBM Research

Biography

Jiri Navratil is a Research Staff Member in the Human Language Technologies department at IBM Research. He is currently involved in research efforts in the area of voice-based authentication technologies, particularly in developing algorithms for acoustic speaker modeling, verification and identification and for joint use of conversational and biometric technologies to achieve robust speaker authentication.

Jiri Navratil received his MSc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ilmenau Technical University , Germany, in 1994, 1998, respectively. In 1999, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, where he is now member of the Conversational Biometrics Group in the Human Language Technologies Department. His research interests include statistical pattern recognition, machine learning, voice biometrics, speech recognition, language identification, and brain-computer interfaces. He has published more than 30 conference and journal papers, and filed 10 patent applications. Dr. Navratil is recipient of the 1999 Johann-Philipp-Reis prize awarded by the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies VDE , the Deutsche Telecom, and the cities of Friedrichsdorf and Gelnhausen, for outstanding contributions to the field of language recognition. He received multiple invention achievement awards and a technical group award from IBM and currently serves as the Watson chair of the User Interface Technologies interest area. Jiri is a member of IEEE and American Mensa.
Jiri participated as senior researcher in the 2002 Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop on Exploiting High-Level Information for High-Performance Speaker Recognition

Jiri's Publications

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Jiri Navratil
Human Language Technologies
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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