Umit GUZ, Assistant Professor

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-Mails:	guz@isikun.edu.tr
	umitguz@gmail.com
	guz@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
	umit@speech.sri.com
HomePage:	http://ee.isikun.edu.tr/umitguz.html
Phone (work):	+902165287139 (direct)
Office:	AMF-335
Address:	ISIK University, Engineering Faculty,
	Department of Electronics Engineering,
	Kumbaba Mevkii, 34980, Sile, Istanbul, TURKEY.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition, Speaker Identification, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Dialogue Systems, Machine Learning, Dialog-Act Tagging, Human-Computer Interaction, Bio-Signal Processing.

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

YEAR	DEGREE AWARDED	INSTITUTION
June13,2008/ Sep20,2008	Postdoc Researcher	International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Speech Group, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Jan01,2007/ Jan06,2008	International Research Fellow	International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Speech Group, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
June30,2006/ Dec31,2006	International Research Fellow	SRI (Stanford Research Institute)-International, Information and Computing Sciences Division (ICS), Speech Technology and Research (STAR) Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
1997-2002	Ph.D.	Istanbul University, The Institute of Science, Department of Electronics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey.
1994-1997	M.Sc.	Istanbul University, The Institute of Science, Department of Electronics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
1990-1994	B.Sc.	Istanbul University, Engineering Faculty, Department of Electronics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey.
1988-1990	College Dipl.	Yildiz Technical University, Department of Computer Programming, Istanbul, Turkey.
1985-1988	High School Dipl.	Istanbul Pertevniyal, Istanbul, Turkey.

FELLOWSHIPS/HONORS/AWARDS

YEAR	FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS	INSTITUTION
2008-2010	TUBITAK CAREER - National Young Researcher Career Award	The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).
2006-2007	Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship	J. William Fulbright, USA.
2007	Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Extension)	The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK-BAYG).
2005-2006	Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship	The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK-BAYG).
2005	TUBITAK Presentation support (IEEE ISCAS2005, Kobe, JAPAN)	The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK-BAYG).
1995-1998	Research and Teaching Assistant Fellowship	Istanbul University, The Institute of Science.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

RESEARCH PROJECT	POSITION	YEARS	RESEARCH FUND
Extracting and Using Prosodic Information for Turkish Spoken Language Processing. TUBITAK CAREER Project. Project No: 107E182	Project Investigator	2008-2010	The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) TUBITAK - ARDEB CAREER - 3501
Automatic Sentence Segmentation with Semi-Supervised Learning Algorithms Using Prosodic and Lexical Information. Project No: 09A301	Project Investigator	2009-2011	ISIK University Resarch Fund
Natural Language Understanding in Human Human and Human Machine Spoken Dialogs. Project No: 05B304	Project Investigator	2006-2007 Completed	ISIK University Resarch Fund
A Novel ECG Modeling Technique Using Classified Signature and Envelope Vector Sets. Project No: 06B302	Researcher	2007-2009 Completed	ISIK University Resarch Fund
A Mathematical Model for Electrocardiogram (ECG) Signals. Project No: 400/03062005	Researcher	2005-2006 Completed	Istanbul University Research Fund

COURSES OFFERED

EE586 Speech and Audio Signal Processing (Graduate)

MATH230 Probability (Undergraduate)

EE240 Logic Design (Undergraduate)

EE203 Simulation Tools (Undergraduate)

EE230 Electronics I (Undergraduate)

E222 Circuit Theory II (Undergraduate)

MEMBERSHIPS

IEEE Member, The IEEE Circuit and Systems Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society

IEICE Member, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

REFEERING

EURASIP JASP – Journal on Applied Signal Processing

EUSIPCO European Signal Processing Conferences

COMPUTER SKILLS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Advanced programming, experimentation and prototype development in MATLAB, MATLAB GUIs, SIMULINK
C/C++, Perl, Python, Gawk, Fortran, Pascal, x86 Assembly.
OPERATING SYSTEMS and WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Unix, Linux, MS-Windows, LaTex.
SOFTWARES/SIMULATION TOOLS
Speech Processing: HTK (Hidden Markov Model Toolkit), Praat, ToBI, WaveSurfer, Transcriber.
Circuit Analysis and Design: PSPICE (ORCAD) MULTISIM (Electronic Workbench).
Math: Mathematica, Mapple.

SEMINARS

[1]	Umit Guz, “Semi-Supervised Learning for Sentence Segmentation for Speech”, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Speech Group, UC Berkeley, CA, USA, (December 10, 2007).
[2]	Umit Guz, “A New Method to Represent the Speech and Audio Signals via Predefined Signature and Envelope Sequences”, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Speech Group, UC Berkeley, CA, USA, (May 15, 2007).
[3]	Umit Guz, “Model Adaptation for Dialog-Act Tagging”, SRI-International, Speech Technology and Research (STAR) Lab., Menlo Park, CA, USA, (December 13, 2006).
[4]	Umit Guz, “A Novel Speech Modeling Method: SYMPES (Systematic Procedure for Predefined Envelope and Signature Sequences)”. SRI-International, Speech Technology and Research (STAR) Lab., Menlo Park, CA, USA, (December 13, 2006)
[5]	Umit Guz, “A New Method to Represent Speech Signals via Predefined Signature and Envelope Sequences”, Isik University, Engineering Faculty, Department of Electronics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey (May, 2006).
[6]	Umit Guz, “A New Method to Represent Speech Signals via Predefined Functional Bases”, Isik University, Engineering Faculty, Department of Electronics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey (August, 2001).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Committee Member, IEEE SIU 2002 Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Denizli, Turkey, 2002.

Co-chair, Special Session on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, ISCIS 2009, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 2009.

SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

GRUNDIG (Audio-Video R&D Labs.), Istanbul, 1993.

BEKOTEKNIK (Audio-Video R&D Labs.), Istanbul, 1992.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Publications (Science Citation Index-SCI)

[1]	Umit Guz, Sébastien Cuendet, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, “Multi-View Semi-Supervised Learning for Dialog Act Segmentation of Speech”, to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2010.
[2]	Umit Guz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Sébastien Cuendet, “Cascaded Model Adaptation for Dialog Act Segmentation and Tagging”, to appear in the Journal of Computer, Speech and Language, Elsevier, 2009.
[3]	Umit Guz, Benoit Favre, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, “Generative and Discriminative Methods using Morphological Information for Sentence Segmentation of Turkish”, to appear in the Special Issue on Processing Morphologically Rich Languages, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2009.
[4]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. Siddik Yarman, “EEG Signal Compression Based on Classified Signature and Envelope Vector Sets”, Special Issue on Bridging Technology Innovations to Foundations, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, John WILEY & Sons, Volume 37, Issue 2, pp.351-363, March 2009.
[5]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. Siddik Yarman, “Modelling of Electrocardiogram Signals Using Predefined Signature and Envelope Vector Sets”, Special Issue on Advances in Electrocardiogram Signal Processing and Analysis, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Hindawi, Volume 2007, Article ID. 12071, pp.1-12, doi:10.1155/2007/12071, 2007.
[6]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, Binboga Siddik Yarman, “A New Method to Represent Speech Signals via Predefined Signature and Envelope Sequences”, Special Issue on Advances in Subspace-Based Techniques for Signal Processing and Communications, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Hindawi, Volume 2007, Article ID. 56382, pp.1-17, doi:10.1155/2007/56382, 2007.
[7]	B. Siddik Yarman, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, “On the Comparative Results of “SYMPES: A New Method of Speech Modeling””, AEU, International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, Volume 60, Issue 6, pp.421-427, June 2006.
[8]	B. Siddik Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, Birep Aygun, “A New Modeling Method of the ECG Signals Based on the Use of an Optimized Predefined Functional Database”, Acta Cardiologica, An International Journal of Cardiology, Volume 58 (3), Brief Communications pp.273-275, June 2003.

Refereed International Conference Proceedings

[1]	Umit Guz, Sébastien Cuendet, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, “Co-training Using Prosodic and Lexical Information for Sentence Segmentation”, Interspeech, August 27-31, 2007, Antwerp, BELGIUM. (This paper is supported by J. William Fulbright Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Fund and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK-BAYG).
[2]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, “A New Algorithm for High Speed Speech and Audio Coding”, Proceedings of ECCTD’07 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, August 26-30, 2007, Seville, SPAIN.
[3]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, “EEG Signal Compression Based on Classified Signature and Envelope Vector Sets”, Proceedings of ECCTD’07 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, August 26-30, 2007, Seville, SPAIN.
[4]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, “A Novel Fast Algorithm for Speech and Audio Coding”, IEEE ISCAS2007, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp.4020-4023, May 27-30, 2007, New Orleans, USA.
[5]	Gokhan Tur, Umit Guz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, “Model Adaptation for Dialog Act Tagging”, IEEE/ACL 2006, Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, pp.94-97, December 10-13, 2006, ARUBA. (This paper is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK-BAYG).
[6]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Siddik Yarman, “A New Speech Modeling Method: SYMPES”, IEEE ISCAS2006, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Conference Digest-CD, pp.1860-1863, May 21-24, 2006, Kos, GREECE.
[7]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. Siddik Yarman, “A New Coding Method for Speech and Audio Signals”, EURASIP, EUSIPCO2005, 13th European Signal Processing Conference, Conference Digest-CD, September 4-8, 2005, Antalya, TURKEY.
[8]	Gurkan Hakan, Guz Umit, Yarman B. S., “An Efficient ECG Data Compression Technique Based on Predefined Signature and Envelope Vector Banks”, IEEE ISCAS2005, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol.II, pp.1334-1337, May 23-26, 2005, Kobe, JAPAN. (This paper is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK-BAYG).
[9]	Guz Umit, Gurkan Hakan, Yarman B. S., “A Novel Method to Represent the Speech Signals by Using Language and Speaker Independent Predefined Functions Sets”, Proceedings of IEEE ISCAS2004 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol.III, pp.457-460, May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, CANADA.
[10]	Gurkan Hakan, Guz Umit, Yarman B. S., “A Novel Representation Method for ElectroMyoGram (EMG) Signals with Predefined Signature and Envelope Functional Bank”, Proceedings of IEEE ISCAS2004 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol.IV, pp.69-72, May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, CANADA.
[11]	Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, “A New Word Recognition Algorithm by Using Signature and Envelope Feature Spaces”, Proceedings of 16th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD’03), Vol.III, pp.161-164, September 1-4, 2003, Kraków, POLAND.
[12]	B. S. Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, Birep Aygun, “A New Modeling Method of the ElectroCardioGram (ECG) Signals Based on the Use of an Optimized Predefined Functional Database”, Proceedings of Brief Communications of the International Society of Non-Invasive Cardiology, 19th European Congress, May 8-10, 2003, Istanbul, TURKEY.
[13]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, “Modeling of EEG Signals by Using Predefined Functional Bases", Proceedings of EMBEC'02 2nd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Proceedings of International Federation for Medical & Biological Engineering, pp.440-441, December 4-8, 2002, Vienna, AUSTRIA.
[14]	Yarman B. S., Gurkan Hakan, Guz Umit, Aygun Birep, “A Novel Method to Represent ECG Signals via Predefined Personalized Signature and Envelope Functions”, EMBC2001 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vol. III, pp.2150-2153, October 25-28, 2001, Istanbul, TURKEY.
[15]	Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, Hakan Gurkan, “A New Method to Represent Speech Signals via Predefined Functional Bases”, Proceedings of ECCTD’01 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Vol.II, pp.5-8, August 28-31, 2001, Espoo, FINLAND.
[16]	Guz Umit, “Modeling of Linear Time Invariant Systems by Using Frequency Domain Data”, First IEEE Balkan Conference on Signal Processing, Communications, Circuits and Systems, Conference Digest-CD, June 2-3, 2000, Istanbul, TURKEY.

Refereed National Conference Proceedings

[1]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, “A Novel Electroencephalogram (EEG) Compression Technique”, Proceedings of 16th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2008), April 20-22, 2008, Didim, Turkey.
[2]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, “A Novel Language and Speaker Independent Method for the Modeling of the Speech Signals by using Signature and Envelope Function Sets, Proceedings of ELECO 2004, National Symposium on Electrical-Electronics and Computer Engineering, pp. 279-283, December 8-12, 2004, Bursa, Turkey.
[3]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, “Compression of the ElectroCardioGram (ECG) Signals by using Signature and Envelope Vector Banks”, Proceedings of ELECO 2004, National Symposium on Electrical-Electronics and Computer Engineering, pp.274-283, December 8-12, 2004, Bursa, Turkey.
[4]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, “Definition of A New Isolated Word Recognition Algorithm by using Predefined Signature and Envelope Vector Banks”, Proceedings of 11th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2003), June 18-20, 2003, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.
[5]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, “Modeling of the ElectroMyoGram (EMG) Signals by using Unique Signature and Envelope Vector Banks”, Proceedings of 11th IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2003), June 18-20, 2003, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.
[6]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, “Optimum Modelling of the Speech Signals with Generalized Speaker Independent Predefined Basic Sound and Envelope Vector Banks”, Proceedings of ELECO 2002, National Symposium on Electrical-Electronics and Computer Engineering, December 18-22, 2002, Bursa, Turkey.
[7]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, “Modeling of the ElectroCardioGram (ECG) Signals with Generalized Signature and Envelope Vector Banks”, Proceedings of ELECO 2002, National Symposium on Electrical-Electronics and Computer Engineering, December 18-22, 2002, Bursa, Turkey.
[8]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, “A New Approach for Determination of the Optimum Signature and Envelope Functions”, Proceedings of the IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2002), Vol.2, pp.691-696, June 12-14, 2002, Denizli, Turkey.
[9]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, “A New Approach for the Modeling of the EEG (ElectroEncephaloGram) Signals by using Optimum Base Functions”, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2002), Vol.2, pp.1204-1209, June 12-14, 2002, Denizli, Turkey.
[10]	Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, “A Novel Approach for the Modeling of the Speech Signals by using Two Based Look-up Tables”, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2001), Vol.2, pp.693-698, April 25-27, 2001, Gazi Magusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
[11]	R. Akdeniz, Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan, B. S. Yarman, “Modeling of the Speech Signals with Base Sequences Generated from Different Sound Sources”, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2001), Vol. 1, pp. 128-133, April 25-27, 2001, Gazi Magusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
[12]	Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz, B. S. Yarman, “Modeling of the ECG (ElectroCardioGram) Signals with Unique Base Functions”, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference (SIU2001), Vol.2, pp.587-592, April 25-27, 2001, Gazi Magusa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
[13]	Guz Umit “Modeling of the Linear Time Invariant Systems by using Frequency Domain Data”, Proceedings of National Automatic Control Conference (TOK’98), pp.245-252, Istanbul Technical University, October 1998, Istanbul, Turkey.

Umit GUZ, Assistant Professor CONTACT INFORMATION