Mark Gales
studied for the B.A. in Electrical and Information Sciences at
the University of Cambridge from
1985-88. Following graduation he worked as a consultant
at Roke Manor
Research Ltd. In 1991 he took up a position as a Research
Associate in the Speech Vision and Robotics group in the Engineering
Department at Cambridge University. In 1995 he completed his doctoral
thesis: Model-Based Techniques for Robust
Speech Recognition supervised
by Professor Steve
Young. From 1995-1997 he was a Research Fellow
at Emmanuel College
Cambridge. He was then a Research Staff Member in the Speech group at
the IBM T.J.Watson Research
Center until 1999 when he returned
to Cambridge University Engineering
Department as a University Lecturer. He was appointed Reader in
Information Engineering in 2004. He is currently a Professor of
Information Engineering and a College Lecturer and
Official Fellow
of Emmanuel College. Mark
Gales is a Fellow of the IEEE and ISCA, and a Senior Area Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language
Processing for speech recognition and synthesis. He was an associate editor for
IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2008-2011, IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language
Processing from 2009-2013 and a member of
the Speech and Language
Processing Technical Committee (2015-2017 and 2001-2004). He is currently on the Editorial Board of Computer Speech and
Language.
Mark Gales has been awarded a number of paper awards, including a 1997
IEEE Young Author Paper Award for his paper
on Parallel Model Combination and a 2002
IEEE Paper Award for his paper on Semi-Tied
Covariance Matrices.