Katerina Nguyen

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Research interests: Gesture recognition and understanding
Advisor: Aaron Bobick
Education: Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experience: Senior Technical Assistant (Summer 94)
Designed tone recognizer to complement a speech recognition system for tonal languages.
AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Senior Technical Assistant (Summer 93)
Evaluated different pitch trackers on telephone speech for the purpose of automatic tone recognition.
AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Technical Assistant (Summer 92)
Helped design and implement algorithms for finding the shortest edge-disjoint and vertex-disjoint paths within a network.
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

Interests: Making caricatures of friends and foes, writing and receiving real letters, and taking naps in the middle of the day.
Birthplace: Ben Tre, Vietnam
A favorite book: Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Most wishes to have dinner with: Data or Lore