Professor
Gerald Penn
Data scientist - speech and natural language processing
Location
University of Toronto
Research Interests
Privacy Preservation, Security, Acoustic Modelling, Syntax-Driven Language Modelling, Computational Epidemiology, Information Extraction
Gerald Penn is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is a senior member of IEEE and AAAI, and a past recipient of the Ontario Early Researcher Award. His joint work with Geoffrey Hinton and Hui Jiang on signal processing with neural networks revolutionized acoustic modelling for speech recognition systems, and received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award. He has led numerous research projects, including
those funded by Avaya, Bell Canada, CAE, the Connaught Fund, Microsoft, NSERC, the German Ministry for Training and Research, SMART Technologies, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.