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Péter Boda
Principal Scientist
Data-Intensive Appl.&Services
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Background
I am a Principal Scientist in the Software & Application Technologies Laboratory of Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland.
I received my M.Sc.E.E. degree in Telecommunications and Telematics from the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) in 1991. After pursuing post-graduate studies at TUB, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen and Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), I received my Lic. Tech. from HUT on "Psychoacoustical Considerations in Speech Analysis and Recognition" in 1995. That same year, I joined Nokia Research Center as a senior researcher. Initially, I worked as an assistant group manager on spoken dialogue systems, language technology, usability, and application development. I later worked as a Technology Expert focusing on multimodality and advanced man-machine interfaces in preparation of EU and Finnish national projects. I spent my sabbatical year (2003-2004) as a Visiting Scientist with the Spoken Language Systems Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.
Research Interests |
My research interests include advanced user interface solutions where contextual and sensor information provide a better understanding of the user’s intention. In the field of multimodality, I am especially interested in statistical integration mechanisms with a wider scope than mere fusion of the actual user input modalities.
Currently, I am the program manager of SensorPlanet, a Nokia initiative on mobile device-centric large-scale wireless sensor networks. I work closely with several universities focusing on establishing a global open research framework where sensor data is accumulated from around the world into a central repository and re-used to provide new types of information for novel application scenarios.
See sensorplanet.org and storymashup.org.
I represented Nokia in the COST 249 (Continuous Speech Recognition Over the Telephone) and COST 278 (Spoken Language Interaction in Telecommunication) EU actions on speech recognition in telecommunications and was an active participant in the CATCH-2004 EU project and more recently in MobiLife.
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Publications |
I have more than 20 publications in international conferences and workshops and I have been a member of several workshop’ program and scientific committees.
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Patents |
Owner and co-owner of three patents.
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