CURRICULUM VITAE

K.U.Leuven
ESAT - PSI
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10
B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee
Belgium

Office: ESAT 01.17
Phone Number: +32 (0)16 / 32.1055
Fax Number:    +32 (0)16 / 32.1723
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Education and Past Activities

Dirk Van Compernolle received the Electrical Engineering degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in july 1979 and an Ms.Sc. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1982 and 1985 respectively. His doctoral thesis was on cochlear implants. From 1985 till 1987 he was at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center working on noise robust speech recognition.  In 1987 he joined the Electrical Engineering Departement (ESAT) of the K.U.Leuven as research associate of the Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research (NFWO), where he later became assistant professor in 1990 and professor in 1994.   From 1994 till 2000 he was with Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products as Vice President of Research. 

Current Activities

Since June 1994 he holds a position of part-time professor at ESAT where he teaches on speech recognition and coordinates research projects on novel speech recognition strategies.  He is also in charge of a small consultancy company.
As an active member of the speech community he has been an associate editor of several speech technology journals. In 2007 he will be the general chairman of INTERSPEECH '07, to be held in Antwerp.  He is the Flemish academic representative in the "TST-Bestuur", which is in charge of the organization of the major Dutch-Flemish binational speech and language research programmes such as CGN and STEVIN.

Research Interests

Currently he is coordinator of research projects focusing on template based large vocabulary recognition and flexible new architectures for large vocabulary recognizers. In former years his main focus was on noise robust speech recognition and microphone arrays.