Mari Ostendorf
About
Mari Ostendorf joined the University of Washington Electrical & Computer Engineering Department in 1999. She is an Endowed Professor of System Design Methodologies in the ECE Department, an Adjunct Professor in CSE and Linguistics, as well as Associate Vice Provost for Research. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, ISCA and ACL, a former Australian-American Fulbright Scholar, a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Prof. Ostendorf has published over 290 papers on a variety of topics in speech and language processing. For her contributions in this area, she was awarded the 2018 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. In 2017, she served as a faculty advisor for the student team winning the inaugural AlexaPrize competition to build a socialbot, and conversational AI is a focus of her current work. Her research explores dynamic models for understanding and generating speech and text, particularly in multi-party contexts, and it contributes to a variety of applications, from education to clinical and scientific information extraction.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
A comparison of two methods for very-low-rate speech coding
Year: 1985
Citations: 5
Venue: MILCOM 1985-IEEE Military Communications Conference 3
Latest Recorded Paper
Efficient Encoder-Decoder Transformer Decoding for Decomposable Tasks
Year: 2024
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13112
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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