Expert profile: Dr. Jan Cernocky

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Jan "Honza" Cernocky (Ing. [MS] 1993 Brno University of Technology (BUT); Dr. 
[PhD] 1998 Universite Paris XI and BUT) was with the Institute of 
Radio-electronics, BUT (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) 
as assistant professor from 1997. Since February 2002, he is with the Faculty 
of Information Technology (FIT), BUT as Associate Professor (Doc.) and Deputy 
Head of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Multimedia. With Prof. Hynek 
Hermansky he is leading the Speech@FIT group at FIT VUT. Dr. Cernocky 
supervises several PhD students. He has been involved with several European 
projects: SPEECHDAT-E (4th FP, technical coordination), SpeeCon and Multimodal 
meeting manager (M4, both 5th FP), and Augmented Multimodal interaction (AMI, 
6th FP), leading the efforts of FIT in speech recognition, keyword spotting and 
multimodal-data recordings and annotations. Currently, he participates in AMIDA 
(6th FP) and coordinates FIT’s participation in CareTaker (6th FP) and in 
projects supported by Czech Ministries of Industry and Defense.
Dr. Cernocky is author or co-author of more than 40 papers in journals and at 
conferences. He has served as reviewer for conferences and journals, including 
IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. He is on the scientific board 
of FIT, scientific board of Text-Speech-Dialogue conference, editorial board of 
the journal Radioengineering and on the board of Czechoslovak section of IEEE. 
Dr. Cernocky is a member of IEEE and ISCA.
His research interests include signal processing and speech processing (very 
low bit rate coding, speaker verification, recognition, multi-modal aspects).