Nicolae Duta

Speaker biography: Nicolae Duta received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Bucharest (Romania) in 1991, the D.E.A. degree in statistics from the University of Paris-Sud (France) in 1992, the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Iowa in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Michigan State University in 2000. He is currently an applied scientist in the Cloud Machine Learning Group at Microsoft in Cambridge, MA working on query understanding for Bing and Cortana personal assistant. From 2006 to 2013 he was a member of the Natural Language Understanding and Language Modeling groups at Nuance Communications, Burlington, MA where he developed Dragon Go – the first generation of voicebased personal assistants for smart phones. From 2000 to 2005 he was a scientist in the Speech and Language Processing department at BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA. He also held temporary research positions at INRIA-Rocquecourt (France) in 1993 and Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton, NJ) from 1997 to 1999. He is a member of IEEE and his current research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, language understanding, automatic translation, machine and biological learning.