Jerome R. Bellegarda

Title: “Input Intelligence on Mobile Devices”

Speaker’s Profile: Dr. Jerome R. Bellegarda is Apple Distinguished Scientist in Intelligent System Experience at Apple Inc., Cupertino, California, which he joined in 1994. Prior to that, he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, in 1987. Among his diverse contributions to speech and language advances over the years, he pioneered the use of tied mixtures in acoustic modeling and latent semantics in language modeling. In addition, he was instrumental to the due diligence process leading to Apple's acquisition of Siri personal assistant technology and its integration into the Apple ecosystem. His general interests span machine learning applications, statistical modeling algorithms, natural language processing, man-machine communication, multiple input/output modalities, and multimedia knowledge management. In these areas he has written close to 200 publications, and holds over 100 U.S. and foreign patents. He has served on many international scientific committees, review panels, and advisory boards. In particular, he has worked as Expert Advisor on speech and language technologies for both the U.S. National Science Foundation and the European Commission, served on the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Speech Technical Committee, was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, and is currently an Editorial Board member for Speech Communication. He was recently selected as one of the 2022 IEEE SPS Distinguished Industry Speakers. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and ISCA (International Speech Communication Association). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37284906800?msclkid=392e47a2ae5711ec887a0141733ec61f