BURGET, LUKAS

Involvement: PHONEXIA

Lukáš Burget, Ph.D.

Lukáš Burget (Ing. [MS] Brno University of Technology, 1999, Ph.D. Brno University of Technology, 2004) holds the position of assistant professor at Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic. His PhD thesis (successfully defended in November 2004) was on "Complementarity of Speech Recognition Systems an System combination". From 2000 to 2002, he was a visiting researcher at OGI Portland, USA under supervision of Prof. Hynek Hermansky. Lukas Burget has worked on EU-sponsored projects "Multimodal meeting manager" (M4, 5th FP) and "Augmented Multimodal interaction" (AMI, 6th FP) as well as on projects sponsored by Czech grant agencies. He is member of IEEE and ISCA. His scientific interests are in the field of speech processing, namely acoustic modeling for speech recognition.

In Phonexia, Lukáš is responsible for development and implementation of core speech recognition and keyword spotting algorithms.