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Qin Jin Interactive Systems Laboratory Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Tel: (412)268-5477    Fax: (412)268-6298 Email: qjin (at) cs cmu edu WWW: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~qjin Education Ph.D. in Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, January 2007  Advisors: Tanja Schultz and Alex Waibel M.S. in Language Technologies, LTI, SCS, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2001 M.E. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, P.R.China, January 1999 Advisor: Qixiu Hu B.E. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, P.R.China, July 1996 Research Interests Robust Automatic Speaker Recognition Speech Recognition and Understanding Statistical Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Human Biometrics Publications Qin Jin, Yue Pan, and Tanja Schultz. “Far-field Speaker Recognition”. In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2006), Toulouse, France, May 2006.  [PDF] Qin Jin and Tanja Schultz. "Speaker Segmentation and Clustering in Meetings". In proceedings of International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2004), Jeju Island, South Korea, October 2004.    [PDF] Kornel Laskowski, Qin Jin, and Tanja Schultz. "Crosscorrelation-based Multispeaker Speech Activity Detection". In proceedings of International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2004), Jeju Island, South Korea, October 2004.    [PDF] Florian Metze, Qin Jin, Christian Fügen, Kornel Laskowski, Yue Pan, and Tanja Schultz. "Issues in Meeting Transcription - The ISL Meeting Transcription System". In proceedings of International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2004), Jeju Island, South Korea, October 2004. [PDF] Hua Yu, Yik-Cheung Tam, Thomas Schaaf, Sebastian Stüker, Qin Jin, Mohamed Noamany, and Tanja Schultz. "The ISL RT04 Mandarin Broadcast News Evaluation System". EARS Rich Transcription Workshop, Palisades, NY, November 2004.    [PDF] Qin Jin, Jiri Navratil, Douglas Reynolds, Joseph. Campbell, Walter. Andrews, and Joy Abramson. "Combining Cross-Stream and Time Dimensions in Phonetic Speaker Recognition". In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2003), Hong Kong, China, April 2003.    [PDF] Jiri Navratil, Qin Jin, Walter Andrews, and Joseph Campbell. "Phonetic Speaker Recognition Using Maximum-likelihood Binary-Decision Tree Mothods". In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2003), Hong Kong, China, April 2003.    [PDF] D. Reynolds, W. Andrews, J. Campbell, J. Navratil, B. Peskin, A. Adami, Q. Jin, D. Klusacek, J. Abramson, R. Mihaescu, J. Godfrey, D. Jones, and B. Xiang.  "The SuperSID Project: Exploiting High-level Information for High-accuracy Speaker Recognition". In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2003), Hong Kong, China, April 2003.    [PDF] Qin Jin, Tanja Schultz, and Alex Waibel. "Phonetic Speaker Identification". In proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), Denver, CO, September 2002.    [PDF] Qin Jin, Tanja Schultz and Alex Waibel. "Speaker Identification Using Multilingual Phone Strings". In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2002), Orlando, Florida, May 2002.    [PDF] Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble, and Alex Waibel. "Improvements in Non-verbal Cue Identification using Multilingual Phone Strings". In proceedings of the Speech-to-Speech Translation Workshop on the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2002), Philadelphia, July 6-12, 2002.    [PDF] Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Kornel Laskowski, Alicia Tribble and Alex Waibel. Speaker, Accent and Language Identification Using Multilingual Phone Strings". In proceedings of the Human Language Technology Meeting (HLT-2002), San Diego, March 2002.    [PDF] Qin Jin A Naive De-lambing  Method for Speaker Identification". In proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2000), Beijing, P.R.China, October 2000. [PDF] Qin Jin and Alex Waibel. "Application of LDA to Speaker Recognition". In proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ( ICSLP-2000), Beijing, P.R.China, October 2000.    [PDF] Qin Jin, Luo Si and Qixiu Hu. "A High-Performance Text-Independent Speaker Identification System Based on BCDM". In proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-1998), Sidney, Australia, November 1998.    [PDF] Qin Jin, Luo Si and Qixiu Hu. "A New Set of Cepstra Features Based on Non-All-Pole Speech Production Model". In (Chinese) proceedings of National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC-1998), Harbin, P.R.China, July 1998. Research and Professional Experience Interactive Systems Laboratory, LTI, SCS, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Research Assistant, September 1999 - 2006 Implementation of an online Speaker ID module in Meeting Browser System Research on robust speaker identification under mismatched conditions Research on exploration of high-level speaker information for robust speaker recognition Research Intern in John's Hopkins University Summer Workshop, Baltimore , MD July 2002 - August 2002 SuperSID Project: Exploiting High-Level Information for High-Performance Speaker Recognition Proposed and explored modeling the statistical pronunciation dynamics across streams in multiple languages (cross-stream dimension) as an additional component to the time dimension Speech Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, P.R.China Graduate Student, September 1996 - January 1999 Research on text-independent speaker recognition (M.S. thesis) Teaching assistant for "Digital Signal Processing", undergraduate course Analogy Inc. - Tsinghua University DSP Technology Development Center, P.R.China Developer, 1995 - 1997  One of the developers of voice-dialing telephone, which has the functionalities of speech recognition, speech coding through telephone lines and automatic dialing according to speech command Jiangmen Technology Development Corporation, Canton, P.R.China Part-time developer , 1995-1996 Development assist for their DSP system Post and Communication Academy, Canton, P.R.China Summer Internship, July - August, 1997 Implementation of multi-user database management system Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant in Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Fall 2001, graduate course: 11751 "Speech Recognition and Understanding" Teaching Assistant in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Spring 1997, undergraduate course:  "Digital Signal Processing". Honors "Excellent Graduating Student" title upon graduation from  undergraduate school, Tsinghua University, 1996. In our department, 15 out of 150 students received this honor Various Scholarships in Tsinghua University, including IBM Scholarship, Tsinghua University Scholarship for excellent students References Upon request