CURRICULUM VITAE

 

1. Full Name: RONZHIN Andrey Leonidovich

 

2. Qualification:  Dr. of Tech. Sci., Assoc. Prof.

 

3. Citizenship: Russia

 

4. Birthday: 17.08.1976

 

5. Tel/Fax:     +7(812)328-70-81      E-mail: ronzhin@iias.spb.su

6. Scientific Fields of Expertise and Interests

Multimodal user interfaces in ambient intelligence: digital audio-visual signal processing, sound source localization, face and body tracking, distant speech recognition, inflective language processing, context representation, recognition and prediction of human behavior.

7. Present Position in Home Institution, current projects

2008- now      Head of Speech and Multimodal Interfaces Laboratory of Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS). Scientific secretary of Dissertation Council for Doctor of Sciences Degree of SPIIRAS. Member of the committee on East Europe of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA); member of the scientific committee of International Conference “Speech and Computer” SPECOM; member of the Academy of navigation and motion control; members of European Association “OpenInterface”. Supervisor of 3 PhD students. Assistant professor of robotics faculty of St. Petersburg University of airspace instrumentation.

Main projects:

-          Project ¹Ï2360 «Development of methods for human-machine interaction and multimodal user interfaces for intelligent information systems», The Russian Federal Targeted Program 2009-2013 “Research and Research-Human Resources for Innovating Russia”, 2009-2011.

-          RFBR project “Investigation of multimodal interaction by an information kiosk”, ¹ 07-07-00073-à, 2007-2009.

-          RFBR project “Model of Audio-Visual Speech Synthesis and Recognition for Intellectual Queuing Devices”, ¹ 08-07-90002-Bel_a, 2008-2009.

-          RFBR project “Modeling non-phonemic speech elements and creation of alternative transcriptions for spontaneous Russian speech recognition”, ¹ 08-08-00128-a, 2008-2010.

-          ONIT RAS project ¹ 4.2 “Study of principled of speech dialogue management in infotelecommunication applications”, 2007-2008.

-          SIMILAR NoE “The European taskforce creating human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication” IST-2002-507609, 2003-2007.

-          INTAS Ref. No : 04-77-7404 “Development of multi-voice and multi-language Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech-to-Text (STT) conversion system (languages: Belarussian, Polish, Russian)”, 2005-2007.

-          INTAS Innovative Project ¹ 05-1000007-426 «Introduction the automatic Russian speech recognition system SIRIUS in telecommunication», 2006-2008.

8. Career Record

2008-now        SPIIRAS, Head of Speech and Multimodal Interfaces Laboratory

2003-2007       SPIIRAS, Head of Speech Informatics Group

1999-2002       SPIIRAS, engineer-researcher, PhD-student.

1999 - 2001     Ectaco Development Center, Inc., programmer-researcher.

9. Educational Record

            1999 – 2002   PhD-student in Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

                          Speciality: “Mathematical modeling, calculus of approximations and program system”.

                          Thesis: "Elaboration of the adaptive method for robust continuous speech understanding based on integral data processing".

1993 - 1999    Student in Saint-Petersburg State University of airspace instrumentation.

                          Speciality: “Automatic systems of information processing and management”.

        Thesis: "Elaboration of the self-decoding model of coding speech signal".

10. Main Publications

1)            A.L. Ronzhin, V.Yu. Budkov, A. Karpov. Multichannel System of Audio-Visual Support of Remote Mobile Participant at E-Meeting // Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, S. Balandin et al. (Eds.): NEW2AN/ruSMART 2010, LNCS 6294, 2010, pp. 62–71.

2)            A. Ronzhin, A. Karpov, I. Kipyatkova, M. Zelezny. Client and Speech Detection System for Intelligent Infokiosk. // Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Petr Sojka et al. (Eds.): TSD 2010, LNAI 6231, 2010, pp. 560–567.

3)            R.M. Yusupov, A.L. Ronzhin. From smart devices to smart space // Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MAIK Nauka, Volume 80, Number 1, pp. 63-68.

4)            À. Ronzhin, Comparative analysis and estimation of vocabulary models for Russian speech recognition systems // Information technologies. Moscow, Russia, ¹ 1, 2009, pp. 21-28. (In Rus.)

5)            A. Karpov, A. Ronzhin, Information Enquiry Kiosk with Multimodal User Interface // Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Moscow: MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Vol. 19, ¹ 3, 2009, pp.546-558.

6)            A. Ronzhin, V. Budkov. Multimodal Interaction with Intelligent Meeting Room Facilities from Inside and Outside // Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, S. Balandin et al. (Eds.): NEW2AN/ruSMART 2009 Proc., LNCS 5764, 2009, pp. 77–88.

7)            A.L. Ronzhin, A.A. Karpov. Comparison of methods for user localization of multimodal system by his speech // Scientific journal “Instrument-making”, St. Petersburg, 2008, Vol. 51, ¹ 11, pp. 41-47, (in Rus.).

8)            A. Ronzhin. Topological peculiarities of morpho-phonemic approach to representation of the vocabulary of Russian speech recognition // Scientific journal “Bulletin of compuer and information technologies”, Moscow, ¹ 9, 2008, pp. 12-19, (in Rus.).

9)            A.L. Ronzhin, A.A. Karpov, I.V. Li. Speech and Multimodal Interfaces. - M.: Science, 2006 - (Computer science: unlimited abilities and possible limits), 173 p.

10)        Kosarev Yu.A., Ronzhin A.L. Quantitative methods in speech processing. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, vol. 27 “Quantitative Linguistics”, Ed. by Köhler, Reinhard / Altmann, Gabriel / Piotrowski, Rajmund G. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2005, pp.834-846.

11. Awards

-        Diploma for winner of competition “St. Petersburg Grants for young PhD” from the Administration of St. Petersburg, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010.

-        Grant of the President of Russian Federation ¹ ÌÊ-9351.2006.9 «Development of information server enabled automatic Russian speech recognition».

-        Diploma for laureate “Distinguished PhD of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2005”, Russian Science Support Foundation.

-        Youth Prize of Saint-Petersburg 2004 in the area of information technologies by decision of Public Council of Saint-Petersburg.

12. Languages

Russian (native), English (intermediate), Spanish (initial)