Rohit Kumar

Current

Ph.D. Student at Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Past

Intern at Alelo / Tactical Language Training LLC
Research Scientist at IIIT Hyderabad, India

Education

Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Punjab Engineering College

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Rohit Kumar’s Summary

Involved in the development and evaluation of Automated Conversational Agents to support (collaborative) human activities. Specifically interested in discovering methods to support everyday business processes with state of the art language technologies including Conversational Interfaces and Spoken Language Systems.

Rohit Kumar’s Specialties:

- Conversational Interfaces for Collaboration
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Spoken Dialog Systems
- Text to Speech Systems including small memory-footprint TTS
- Speech Recognition Systems
- Huge volume Data Collection for Speech Recognition Systems
- Web / Telephone based Speech Interfaces
- Other applications of Language Technologies

Rohit Kumar’s Experience

Ph.D. Student

Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

- Development & Evaluation of Conversational Agents

-- My research focuses on conversational strategies motivated by social processes that can mediate cognitive effects

-- Specifically i work on collaborative learning environments and study the use of conversational agents to support learners

- Besides my primary research focus, i also help other members of my research group with my experience in speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialog system and other forms of language technologies that i have prior experience with
Intern

Alelo / Tactical Language Training LLC

(Computer Software industry)

August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

As a member of the scientific team, i worked directly with the company's Chief Scientist.

My responsibilities included development and evaluation of advanced Natural Language Processing technology both for streamlining internal processes and improving end product.
Research Scientist

IIIT Hyderabad, India

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

July 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 11 months)

- At IIIT Hyderabad, i was part of the Language Technologies Research Center and worked as a member of Speech Technology Group.

-- My role was to contribute in Development of Spoken Language Systems including TTS and ASR for Indian Languages. Some of my specific work includes

-- Development of a small footprint Text to Speech System for Simputer (a handheld device)

--- Development of several applications of TTS for desktop, handheld and web based platforms

--- Development of a telephonic data collection system for collecting spoken language data for three indian languages

Rohit Kumar’s Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D. , Language Technologies , 2007 — 2011 (expected)

Activities and Societies:

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- Advisory Committee, Indian Graduate Students Association,
- Representative, Graduate Student Association,
- Member, LTI Activities Committee
Carnegie Mellon University

Masters in Language Technology , Conversational Interfaces , 2005 — 2007

- Authored 1 journal article, 5 conference papers and 3 workshop papers

Activities and Societies:

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- General Secretary, Indian Graduate Students Association,
- Activities Committee, Language Technologies Institute
Punjab Engineering College

B.E. , Computer Science & Engg. , 1999 — 2003

- Graduated with Honors
- Awarded the Silver Medal for Best Final Year Project
- Authored 1 journal article and 3 conference papers

Activities and Societies:

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- Founder Secretary, IEEE Computer Society Chapter,
-- Chapter won 2 international awards under my leadership,
- Co–opted member, PEC Student Council,
- Graphics Editor, PECMag Editorial Board