Experience

Sensory, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Application Engineer

  • Dec 2013 - Apr 2022

  Portland, OR



Adapx

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Scientist

  • Jul 2005 - Dec 2013

  Seattle, WA As the Principal Investigator for Adapx's work on DARPA's Deep Green program, I led our research group through all three phases of the project: in phase 1 we were judged superior to other groups' efforts who were also attempting to fuse sketch and speech inputs for creating military symbology on GIS maps; in phase 2, having won the formally graded competition in the earlier phase, we were solely responsible for multimodal interface implementation and could advance to covering not just symbol… Show more As the Principal Investigator for Adapx's work on DARPA's Deep Green program, I led our research group through all three phases of the project: in phase 1 we were judged superior to other groups' efforts who were also attempting to fuse sketch and speech inputs for creating military symbology on GIS maps; in phase 2, having won the formally graded competition in the earlier phase, we were solely responsible for multimodal interface implementation and could advance to covering not just symbol creation but also multimodally defining a full ontology of military tasks; in phase 3, based on growing appreciation for the attractiveness of our multimodal interface for military planning tasks on GIS maps, we were chosen as the prime contractor for the final phase of the program. Currently the resulting planning application, called STP (Sketch-Thru-Plan), is being transitioned to various branches of the US armed forces. Show less



Audience, Inc

• Events Services

• Consultant

  • 2002 - 2002

  Consulted on aspects of speech recognition within the CSLU Toolkit (Center for Spoken Language Understanding, OGI/OHSU).



SpeechWorks

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Intern

  • Jun 2001 - Sep 2001

  During a four month internship contributed to the design and implementation of a top-to-bottom speech recognition system based on AT&T’s Finite State Toolkit. At the word level the system incorporated aspects of my design ideas for robust semantic parsing.