====== Research ====== I am currently working on various topics related to machine learning, speech and language processing. **If you are interested in doing research with me, please email me with your background.** **Research Interests:** * Machine Learning / Pattern Classification * Deep Learning / Neural Networks * Natural Language Processing (language modelling, paraphrase, question and answering) * Speech and Audio Processing (enhancement, recognition, human-machine dialogue) * Computer Vision (object detection and cross-domain adaptation) **Currently Undergoing Research Projects:** * Neural Models for Natural Language Processing (Language Modelling, Paraphrase Detection, Q&A, Human-Machine Dialogue) - [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:swe:start|Semantic Word Embedding]] - [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:fofe:start|Fixed-size Ordinally-Forgetting Encoding (FOFE)]] - Neural Reading Machine * Deep Learning for Computer Vision - [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00577|Deep Learning for Object Detection and Image Segmentation]] - Neural Viewing Machine * [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07704|Deep Learning for Probabilistic Reasoning]] * [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:hope:start|Learning Neural Networks under the HOPE Framework]] * [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:fsmn:start|Feedforward Sequential Memory Network (FSMN)]] **Previous Research Projects:** * Distributed Training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) using GPUs and MapReduce * [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:localnn:start|Locally Connected Neural Networks]] * [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:asgd:start|Fast Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) Algorithm for Deep Learning]] * [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:dnnadapt:start|Rapid Adaptation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)]] * [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:mdnn:start|Multiple DNN Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition]] * [[https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/lab/MLL/projects:cnn4asr:start|Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for Speech Recognition]] * Large Margin Estimation of HMMs for Speech Recognition * Large Margin Multinomial Mixture Models for Text Categorization * Noise Reduction and Speaker Normalization for Cochlear Implant Processing