Expert profile: Assistant Professor Ha-Jin Yu

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Description:
     + Work Experience [1] Director July 1, 2000 to Present Employer:
       SL2, Seoul, South Korea Hours/Week: 50 Responsibilities: --
       Director of SL2 R&D center [2] Senior Research Engineer Jan 1,
       1997 to June 30, 2000 Employer: LG Electronic Institute of
       Technology, Seoul, South Korea Hours/Week: 50 Responsibilities: --
       Design and implement Korean speech recognizer Broadcast speech
       recognizer Large-vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech
       recognition Large-vocabulary speaker-independent isolated word
       recognition Word-spotting Definition of phoneme sets and
       phonological rules Speech and text data collection
     + Professional Activities / Organizations Member of Acoustic Society
       of Korea Member of Korea Information Science Society
     + Education Ph.D. in Speech Recognition, March 2, 1992 to February
       20, 1997, KAIST MS in Speech Recognition, March 1, 1990 to
       February 20, 1992, KAIST BS in Computer Science, March 1, 1986 to
       February 20, 1990, KAIST + Other Information - Speech Science
       Professional (HMM, Neural Networks) - Languages : Good oral and
       written communications skills in Korean, English, and Japanese
       Korean : Mother tongue English : 875 TOEIC score TOEIC(Test of
       English for International Communication) by ETS(Educational
       Testing Service) Japanese : Level 1 of Japanese-Language
       Proficiency Test (by The Japan Foundation and Association of
       International Education) - Strong C and C++ programming skills -
       Fluency in UNIX, LINUX and Windows - Proficient in Perl, Latex, MS
       Office Suite, PostScript, and HTML languages
     + PUBLICATION LIST
       International Journals:
       Ha-Jin Yu, Yung Hwan Oh, "A Neural Network for 500 Word Vocabulary
       Word Spotting Using Non-Uniform Units", Neural Networks, Elsevier
       Science Ltd., 13, 2000, pp 681-688
       Hajin Yu, Yung Hwan Oh, Yoichi Yamashita, Riichiro Mizoguchi,
       "Fuzzy Expert System for Continuous Speech Recognition," Expert
       System with Application, Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 9, No. 2,
       1995, pp. 81-89
       Dissertations:
       Ha-Jin Yu, "Continuous Speech Recognition Systems Based on
       Non-Uniform Unit Neural Network and Fuzzy Expert System," Ph.D
       dissertation, department of computer science, KAIST, 1997
       Ha-Jin Yu, "Design and Implementation of Voice Input System for
       Koreanized Computer Program," MS dissertation, department of
       computer science, KAIST, 1992
       Technical Report: Hajin Yu, Yung Hwan Oh, Yoichi Yamashita,
       Riichiro Mizoguchi, "Expert system for continuous speech
       recognition with non-uniform recognition unit", IEICE Technical
       Report, SP93-56, pp.57-64, August 1993
       International Conferences:
       Ha-Jin Yu, Hoon Kim, Joon-Mo Hong, Min-Seong Kim, and Jong-Seok
       Lee, "Large Vocabulary Korean Continuous Speech Recognition using
       a one-pass algorithm," The Sixth International Conference on
       Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2000, Beijing, October 2000
       Ha-Jin Yu, Joon-Mo Hong, Hoon Kim and Jong-Seok Lee, "Korean
       broadcast speech recognizer using cross-word phone network,"
       ICSP'99 : International Conference on Speech Processing, Seoul,
       August 1999
       Ha-Jin Yu, Hoon Kim, Jae-Seung Choi, Joon-Mo Hong, Kew-Suh Park,
       Jong-Seok Lee, and Hee-Youn Lee, "Automatic Recognition of Korean
       Broadcast News Speech," The Fifth International Conference on
       Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP98, Sydney, December 1998
       Ha-Jin Yu, Yung-Hwan Oh, "A Neural Network for 500 Vocabulary Word
       Spotting Using Acoustic Sub-word Units," IEEE International
       Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP
       '97, Munich, April 1997
       Ha-Jin Yu, Yung-Hwan Oh, "A Neural Network using Acoustic Sub-word
       units for Continuous Speech Recognition" The Fourth International
       Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP96, Philadelphia,
       pp.506-509, October 1996
       Hajin Yu, Yung-Hwan Oh, "A Neural Network using Non-Uniform Unit
       for Continuous Speech Recognition" 4th European Conference on
       Speech Communication and Technology EUROSPEECH'95, Madrid, Spain,
       Vol 3, pp. 1677-1680, September 1995
       Hajin Yu, Sung Joo Kim and Yung Hwan Oh, "Estimating Fuzzy Phoneme
       Similarity Relations for Continuous Speech Recognition,"
       Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
       and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE95, Melbourne, Australia, June, 1995,
       pp. 665-672
       Hajin Yu, Sung Joo Kim and Yung Hwan Oh, "Estimating Phoneme
       Similarity for Continuous Speech Recognition," 3rd International
       Conference on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Nets and Soft Computing,
       IIZUKA'94, 1994
       Hajin Yu, Yung Hwan Oh, Yoichi Yamashita, Riichiro Mizoguchi,
       "Fuzzy Expert System for Continuous Speech Recognition",
       Proceedings of '93 Korean/Japan Joint Conference on Expert
       Systems, pp. 951-965, 1993