Jan Sedivy

	Current position:	Technology Transfer Manager
	Education and degrees:	Graduated M.Sc. CTU 1977, Ph.D. CTU 1983.
	Office:	Building B, room 424
	Phone:	+420 224354181
	FAX:	+420 224357385
	E-mail:	jan.sedivy@cvut.cz
	Blog:	jsedivy.blogspot.com

My mission:

• Education: Create and deliver top curricula for Cloud Computing, Big Data, Analytics, Internet application development, Mobile etc.
• Research: Drive and work with students committed to innovation and science on new technologies in the field of Conversational AI, NLP, Internet apps, Analytics, Mobile etc.
• Entrepreneurship: Make a difference through, education, research, technology development, and dissemination of the results to industry. Create and cultivate entrepreneurial environment to help new high tech startups.

Professional experience

• Leading the Alquist team,
• Directing eClub scientific accelerator at CTU,
• Director of the CTU MediLab Foundation,
• Teaching course Development of Internet Applications

• Managing several regional teams in Google - EMEA
• Communicating cross-functional, across the whole company
• Managing localization of Google maps for EMEA countries (CZ, SL,...), supporting new data, geo coding, transit information, ...
• Managing the EMEA Internationalization team (ICU, phone numbers, audits ...)
• Managing support for inflectional languages, automatic accentuation, spell checking
• Managing triaging Google products, testing, launching many different applications and extensions in EMEA
• Working with universities (project, talks, support, ...)

• Founded, built and led the IBM CZ research and development lab in Prague
• Principal designer, responsible for the design, research and implementation of the core engine of the Embedded ViaVoice product (millions of licenses sold on the US market, Honda, NorthStar)
• Managing and designing the server-embedded converged engine architecture for (2006)
• Project, package Coordinator in HomeTalk, CHIL, SAFIR projects in European Commission IST program, (2002 - 2007)
• Managing the development of Multimodal Browser for embedded devices (2001 - 2003)
• Managing and designing many different multimodal interaction projects for car and hand-held environments: cell phone, entertainment, navigation control.

• Principal designer, researcher and developer of the IBM's ViaVoice for Embedded Multi-platform
• Two major patents: algorithms allowing to run real time speech recognition on PC computers (Fast labeling and Fast speaker adaptation algorithms)
• Representing IBM in the AURORA project (ETSI, 1995-1998).
• The European Community Kopernicus project reviewer

• Researching new digital signal processing algorithms with low resources requirements aimed at speech recognition. Part of the research group working on IBM ISSS and IBM Personal Dictation System. (Two IBM disclosures two patents).
• Leading a team designing and implementing speech driven game for Disney World - EPCOT

Patents

1. US6073091 06/06/2000 Apparatus and Method for Forming a Filtered Inflected Language Model for Automatic Speech Recognition
2. US06023673 02/08/2000 Hierarchical labeler in a speech recognition system
3. US06016476 01/18/2000 Portable information and transaction processing system and method utilizing biometric authorization and digital certificate security
4. US05835888 11/10/1998 Statistical language model for inflected languages
5. US05544277 08/06/1996 Speech coding apparatus and method for generating acoustic feature vector component values by combining values of the same features for multiple time intervals
6. US05522011 05/28/1996 Speech coding apparatus and method using classification rules
7. US6438247 10/20/2002 Seatbelt Microphone Mounting
8. US6584425: 2003-06-24 / 2000-12-27 Smart thermometer
9. 20050086382 - 04/21/05 Systems and methods for providing dialog localization in a distributed environment and enabling conversational communication using generalized user gestures
10. 20050096070 - 05/05/05 Efficient communication with passive devices
11. 20050143972 - 06/30/05 System and methods for acoustic and language modeling for automatic speech recognition with large vocabularies
12. 6,965,773 B2 11/15/05 Virtual cooperative network formed by local clients in zones without cellular service
13. 7,100,000 8/29/2006 System and methods for processing audio using multiple speech technologies
14. 7,156,309 1/2/2007 Smart book
15. 7,315,613 1/1/2008 Multi-modal messaging
16. US Pat. application. 9837024 4/18/2001 Systems and methods for providing conversational computing via javaserver pages and javabeans
17. US Pat. Application 10007084 12/4/2001 Reusable VoiceXML dialog components, sub-dialogs and beans
18. US Pat. Application 11548976 - Filed Oct 12, 2006 Enhancement to Viterbi speech processing algorithm for hybrid speech models that conserves memory.
19. 6.442.519 2002 Speaker model adaptation via network of similar users

Awards

Papers