Michael Riley

Michael Riley has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT, all in computer science. He began his career at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs where he, together with Mehryar Mohri and Fernando Pereira, introduced and developed the theory and use of weighted finite-state transducers (WFSTs) in speech and language. He is currently distinguished research scientist at Google, Inc. His interests include speech and natural language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval. He is a principal author of the OpenFst library He manages a group with expertise that includes speech recognition, speech synthesis, computational linguistics, NLP, automata algorithms and machine learning. He is an IEEE and ISCA Fellow.