Matt Black, Ph.D.

Matt Black, Ph.D.

Los Angeles, California, United States
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With a Ph.D. in engineering and 15+ years of experience in leadership roles spanning…

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    University of Southern California

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    Thesis: Automatic Quantification and Prediction of Human Subjective Judgments in Behavioral Signal Processing

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Publications

  • “You made me do it”: Classification of blame in married couples’ interactions by fusing automatically derived speech and language information

    In Proceedings of Interspeech, Florence, Italy, Aug. 2011

  • Automatic prediction of children’s reading ability for high-level literacy assessment

    IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1015-1028, May 2011. (Best Student Paper Award, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California)

  • Toward automating a human behavioral coding system for married couples’ interactions using speech acoustic features

    Speech Communication, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 1-21, Jan. 2013

  • Automated evaluation of non-native English pronunciation quality: Combining knowledge- and data-driven features at multiple time scales

    In Proc. of Interspeech, Dresden, Germany, Sept. 2015. (Winner of the Interspeech 2015 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge)

  • Automatic classification of married couples’ behavior using audio features

    In Proceedings of Interspeech, Makuhari, Japan, Sept. 2010. (Best Paper Award)

  • Automatic detection and classification of disfluent reading miscues in young children’s speech for the purpose of assessment

    In Proceedings of Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 2007

  • Automatic pronunciation verification of English letter-names for early literacy assessment of preliterate children

    In Proceedings of ICASSP, Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009

  • Automatically assessing the ABCs: Verification of children’s spoken letter-names and letter-sounds

    ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Special Issue on Children’s Speech for Child-Machine Interaction Applications, vol. 7, no. 4, Aug. 2011

  • Comparison of child-human and child-computer interactions based on manual annotations

    In Proceedings of the Workshop on Child, Computer, and Interaction, Cambridge, MA, USA, Nov. 2009

  • Comparison of child-human and child-computer interactions for children with ASD

    In Proceedings of the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 2010

  • Estimation of children’s reading ability by fusion of automatic pronunciation verification and fluency detection

    In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sept. 2008

  • Improvements in predicting children’s overall reading ability by modeling variability in evaluators’ subjective judgments.

    In Proceedings of ICASSP, Kyoto, Japan, Mar. 2012

  • Predicting children’s reading ability using evaluator-informed features

    In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brighton, UK, Sept. 2009

  • Pronunciation verification of English letter-sounds in preliterate children

    In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sept. 2008

  • Signal processing tools for the automatic analysis of child-psychologist interactions

    In Proceedings of the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), San Diego, CA, USA, May 2011

  • The USC CARE Corpus: Child-psychologist interactions of children with autism spectrum disorders

    In Proceedings of Interspeech, Florence, Italy, Aug. 2011

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