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Biography
Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is an Indian-American Professor at the University of Southern California. He is an interdisciplinary engineer-scientist with a focus on human-centered signal processing and informatics with speech and spoken language processing at its core. A prolific award-winning researcher, educator and inventor, with hundreds of publications to his credit, he has pioneered a number of research areas including in computational speech science, speech and human language technologies, audio and music, and behavioral signal processing and informatics. His technical contributions cover a range of domains including defense, security, health, education, media, and the arts. His work has been widely featured in national and international print and broadcast media including the NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC and Wired.
Career
Shri Narayanan was born in New Delhi, India (1967), and grew up in Madras (Chennai). He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering-Guindy in 1988. He obtained M.S. in 1990, Engineer in 1992, and Ph.D. in 1995, all from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His early career was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, and AT&T Research.
He is the inaugural Niki and C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering and was the inaugural holder of the Andrew J. Viterbi Professorship in Engineering (2007-2016) at the University of Southern California (USC), where he holds appointments in Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and Pediatrics. He is the founder and director of the USC Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory and the Ming Hsieh Institute, and is a member of the Signal and Image Processing Institute. In 2013, he co-founded the company Behavioral Informatix, LLC. In 2016, he co-founded the company Behavioral Signal Technologies, Inc.
He also currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, (2016–present) Editor for the Computer, Speech and Language Journal (2008–present) and currently serves/has served as an Associate Editor for numerous journals.
Notable Professional Honors and Positions
Shri Narayanan is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was elected a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the International Speech Communication Association.
He has won numerous research and best paper awards including two IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Transactions Paper awards (2005, 2009), six Interspeech Challenge awards, a 2015 Ten Year Technical Impact Award from ACM ICMI and a 2015 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award. His work has been presented in distinguished and keynote lectures.
He was named by LA Weekly as one of their "fascinating angelenos" for their People 2013 issue.
Behavioral Informatix
Shri Narayanan co-founded the company Behavioral Informatix in 2013 with his colleagues Matt Black and Alex Potamianos. The company specializes in using Behavioral Signal Processing (BSP) techniques to help personalize user experiences and assist in decision-making for the healthcare industry.
Behavioral Signal Technologies
Shri Narayanan co-founded Behavioral Signal Technologies Inc. in 2016 with colleagues Alex Potamianos and Prem Natarajan. The company specializes in speech, predictive and omnichannel analytics applying Behavioral Signal Processing (BSP) technologies in diverse industries.