Invited Talk 1:30-2:30pm, 23rd June, 2013
Title: A Multimodal Perspective on Biometrics and
Entity Profiles
Dr. Prem Natrajan, Senior Vice President, Raytheon-BBN, USA
Brief Bio: Dr. Premkumar (Prem) Natarajan is an
Executive Vice President and Principal Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies.
As a member of BBN's executive leadership team, he oversees technical and
business operations in Speech, Language and Multimedia Technologies at BBN.
Prem's technical contributions span several multimedia processing and pattern
recognition areas, including speech recognition, language understanding,
speech-to-speech translation, video analysis and content extraction, topic
classification, speech triage, and optical character recognition (OCR). He
has served as Principal Investigator on numerous Department of Defense (DOD) and
Intelligence Community sponsored research and deployment projects, including
important DARPA-sponsored research efforts such as the TRANSTAC, MADCAT, and
DEFT programs, and IARPA-sponsored research efforts such as VACE and ALADDIN.
Previously, as Manager, Speech Engineering, he was responsible for the
advancement and deployment by BBN of commercial speech technology solutions for
Directory Assistance Automation and Call Center applications.