Alex Waibel

Alexander Waibel (born 2 May 1956) is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Waibel's research focuses on automatic speech recognition, translation and human-machine interaction. His work has introduced cross-lingual communication systems, such as consecutive and simultaneous interpreting systems on a variety of platforms. In fundamental research on machine learning, he is known for the Time Delay Neural Network ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391037926_Phoneme_Recognition_Using_Time-Delay_Neural_Networks TDNN]), the first Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained by gradient descent, using backpropagation. Alex Waibel introduced the TDNN in 1987 at [https://www.atr.jp/index_e.html ATR] in Japan. Provided by Wikipedia