Heather Pon-Barry

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence Research Group
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

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Research Interests

My research focuses on spoken language processing, an interdisciplinary area that draws upon elements of artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, signal processing, and cognitive science. The goal of my research is to advance the state of multimodal human-computer communication to support the development of adaptive, personalized, intelligent systems.

Recent Publications

Recognizing Uncertainty in Speech. Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart M. Shieber. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2011(251753), 2011. Special Issue on Emotion and Mental State Recognition from Speech.
Assessing Self-awareness and Transparency when Classifying a Speaker's Level of Certainty. Heather Pon-Barry and Stuart Shieber. Proceedings of Speech Prosody, May 2010.
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Short Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Harvard University. My research has been supported by an NDSEG fellowship and an NSF fellowship. Before coming to Harvard, I worked at Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA. Prior to that, I did my undergraduate at Stanford University, earning B.S. and M.S. degrees in Symbolic Systems. At Stanford, I was involved in research on spoken tutoring systems at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).