Karen Livescu
Professor at TTI-Chicago working on speech and language processing; former MIT EECS post-doctoral lecturer
- Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago1
Karen Livescu is a Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), a graduate institute for computer science, and a courtesy faculty member in Computer Science at the University of Chicago; Livescu's research covers speech and language processing and related machine learning. Livescu was a post-doctoral lecturer in the MIT EECS department from 2005 to 2007, and Carnegie Mellon University's WAVLab lists Livescu as visiting faculty from 2023 to 2024. Livescu co-authored SLUE, a set of benchmark tasks for spoken language understanding on natural speech, and Toward Joint Language Modeling for Speech Units and Text, a paper listed among Meta AI's publications.12345
Work
SLUE benchmark (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of SLUE: New Benchmark Tasks for Spoken Language Understanding Evaluation on Natural Speech (2021).3
Toward Joint Language Modeling for Speech Units and Text (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of this 2023 paper with Ju-Chieh Chou, Chung-Ming Chien, Wei-Ning Hsu, Arun Babu, Alexis Conneau, Alexei Baevski, and Michael Auli; Meta's AI people page for Michael Auli lists it among Auli's publications.45
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Visiting faculty (2023–2024), Carnegie Mellon University (WAVLab)2
- Post-doctoral lecturer (2005–2007), MIT (EECS department)1
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