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Tara Sainath
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<h2 id="education-and-career">Education and career</h2> <p>Sainath was a student of electrical and engineering and computer science at the <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>, where she received a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in 2005, and a Ph.D. in 2009. Her master's thesis was <i>Acoustic Landmark Detection and Segmentation using the McAulay-Quatieri Sinusoidal Model</i>, supervised by Timothy Hazen,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> and her doctoral dissertation was <i>Applications of Broad Class Knowledge for Noise Robust Speech Recognition</i>, supervised by <a href="/facts/Victor_Zue/FdlmzuDT">Victor Zue</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>She worked for <a href="/facts/IBM_Research/4DaaL58U">IBM Research</a> at the <a href="/facts/Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Center/XfGnAzRW">Thomas J. Watson Research Center</a> before moving to Google Research.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="recognition">Recognition</h2> <p>Sainath was elected both as an <a href="/facts/IEEE_Fellow/Ftdda6Eo">IEEE Fellow</a> and as a fellow of the <a href="/facts/International_Speech_Communication_Association/eQjaS4Y3">International Speech Communication Association</a> in 2022, in both cases "for contributions to deep learning for automatic speech recognition".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/tsainath/">Home page</a></li> <li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aMeteU4AAAAJ">Tara Sainath</a> publications indexed by <a href="/facts/Google_Scholar/FhEwS2QM">Google Scholar</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Sainath, Tara N. (2005), Acoustic Landmark Detection and Segmentation using the McAulay-Quatieri Sinusoidal Model (PDF), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, retrieved 2023-04-21 <a href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2005/tara_meng_thesis.pdf" target="_blank">http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2005/tara_meng_thesis.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Sainath, Tara N. (2009), Applications of Broad Class Knowledge for Noise Robust Speech Recognition (PDF), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, retrieved 2023-04-21 <a href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2009/Thesis_Sainath.pdf" target="_blank">http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2009/Thesis_Sainath.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Tara Sainath at the Mathematics Genealogy Project <a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=227129" target="_blank">https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=227129</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Tara Sainath, Google Research, retrieved 2023-04-21 <a href="https://research.google/people/TaraSainath/" target="_blank">https://research.google/people/TaraSainath/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>2022 Newly Elevated Fellows (PDF), IEEE, archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-24, retrieved 2023-04-21 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211124083848/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2022-ieee-fellows-class.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20211124083848/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2022-ieee-fellows-class.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Wellekens, Chris (May 9, 2022), "ISCA Fellows announced", ISCApad, no. 287, International Speech Communication Association <a href="https://www.isca-speech.org/iscapad/iscapad.php?module=article&id=25663" target="_blank">https://www.isca-speech.org/iscapad/iscapad.php?module=article&id=25663</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>