Murat Saraçlar

Picture of Murat Saraclar at Bogazici UniversityBoğaziçi University
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
34342 Bebek
İstanbul / TURKEY
Phone: +90 212 359 64 22
Fax: +90 212 287 24 65
firstname dot lastname (with a c instead of ç) at boun dot edu dot tr

News

I have been elected to serve as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee.

Research assistantships are available within my TUBITAK Kariyer Project on Turkish Broadcast News Transcription and Retrieval. Please contact me for more information.

Check out the BUSIM Speech Group. Contact us for more info!

Experience

Jan 2005 - present Assistant Professor, Boğaziçi University, Dept of Electrical & Electronic Eng.
Sep 2000 - Jan 2005 Senior Technical Staff Member, AT&T Labs -- Research
Sep 1994 - Sep 2000 Teaching and Research Assistant, ECE Dept. and CLSP, Johns Hopkins University

Education

1994 - 2000 Johns Hopkins University, CLSP and ECE Dept, Baltimore, MD, USA (PhD, MS)
1990 - 1994 Bilkent University, EE Dept, Ankara, Turkey (BS)
1989 - 1990 Big Sky High School, Missoula, MT, USA
1978 - 1989 TED Ankara College, Ankara, Turkey

Research interests

Speech and Language Processing
Large Vocabulary Automatic Speech Recognition: Acoustic, Pronunciation and Language Modeling
Statistical Natural Language Processing
Applications of Speech Recognition: Spoken Information Retrieval, Speech Understanding
Statistical and Information Theoretic Methods in Learning