About
About
Omid Sadjadi is a speech technologist and a Sr. Applied Scientist at Amazon. Before joining Amazon, he was the technical lead for NIST speech technology evaluations including the Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE) and Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). He also served as the technical lead for the NIST Too-Close for Too-Long (TC4TL) challenge which was organized in collaboration with the MIT PACT in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was a recipient of the NIST ITL Outstanding Associate of the Year Award for “outstanding contributions based on his expert knowledge of speaker recognition systems that improved the NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation”, as well as several Exceptional Performance Awards for his work at NIST. Prior to NIST, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM where he researched and developed audio analytics technologies for IBM Watson. He was a recipient of a best paper award as well as the IBM Research Travel Grant at IEEE ICASSP-2013, Vancouver, BC. He has authored/co-authored more than 60 papers in the fields of machine learning and human language technology, and is the developer of the Microsoft Research (MSR) Identity Toolbox for speaker recognition.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. He has served on the technical committee of several top-tier speech and machine learning conferences and journal publications in various capacities (area chair, session chair, reviewer, editor), and was a guest editor for the Computer Speech & Language special issue on speaker recognition evaluations.
He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he received a Certificate of Academic Achievement for his outstanding academic performance.
PhD, Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas
MSc, Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
BSc (with honors), Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic),