Naveen Kumar Research Scientist, Disney Research Walt Disney Imagineering Los Angeles, USA Ph.D., University of Southern California B.Tech, IIT Kharagpur
I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California and a B.Tech. degree in Instrumentation Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. I currently work at Walt Disney Imagineering R&D Los Angeles, USA. I am originally from Kolkata, India.
My broad research interests lie at the nexus of Signal Processing and Machine Learning for speech, multimedia and multimodal applications. These days I work on better understanding different aspects of human-human communication, in the hope that some of these can be imparted to embodied agents for better human-computer interaction. As a result, I am deeply fascinated with speech, language and the way people use these to achieve different social goals.