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Trainers in "Summer School in Asian Language Processing"

Dr. Muhammad Akmal Butt, NUCES, Pakistan

He did his M.Sc. from University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. For over two years, after completing his doctorate, he has worked on various research projects in US industries. Since 2001, he is serving in academic institutions of Pakistan and is actively involved in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and supervision of academic and industry-sponsored research projects. His research areas of interest include Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing and their applications in Speech Analysis, Speech Synthesis and Optical Character Recognition.

Dr. Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany

She is currently serving as a Professor at University of Konstanz, teaching courses on theoretical and computational linguistics. She works primarily on Urdu (Syntax, Morphology, Semantics and some Phonology) by taking both synchronic and historical aspects into account. She is currently engaged in building a Computational Grammar (parser/generator) and finite-state morphology for Urdu. Occasionally, she branches out to other South Asian languages or even work on German. She has several publications on grammar and computational Linguistics and has also authored books on these research areas.

Dr. Syed Afaq Husain, International Islamic University, Pakistan

Currently he is serving as a Professor at International Islamic University, Islamabad. He is also head of the Department of Electronics Engineering. Dr. Syed Afaq Husain specialized in the field of Image Processing with special focus on the medical applications. He has been researching in medical applications like brain MRI, Heart SPECT Imaging, etc. He has also worked on various biometric applications like fingerprint, iris and facial features and Speech recognition. He has been a pioneer in the application of OCR techniques for Urdu Character Recognition.

Dr. Sarmad Hussain, NUCES, Pakistan

Currently he is Professor at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He is the founding head of Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP). He has been working in the area of local language computing since 1997. He has successfully lead and completed many research projects on complex script Font Development, Urdu Spell Checker and Urdu Terminology Translation project for Microsoft USA. He is also leading development of

Urdu Machine Translation, Text-to-Speech system and Lexicon system. He is member of national body of Pakistan for standardization of Pakistani languages. He is also member of Bidi List of Unicode, which looks into the standardization issues of bidirectional languages. Dr. Sarmad Hussain has been awarded with Dr. M. N. Azam prize for Computer Science (2002) by Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Government of Pakistan, for his services to Urdu language computing.

Dr. Rajat Kumar Mohanty, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

He completed his Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad, India in 2003. Currently he is working as a Research Linguist in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay. His research interest is in intersection of Theoretical Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). He is currently involved in the development of Linguistic Resources and NLP tools for English, Oriya, Hindi, and other Indian languages.

Mr. Aamir Wali, University of Illinois Urbana Champagne (UIUC), USA

Aamir Wali was a faculty member at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore. Currently he is enrolled in a Ph.D. program at University of Illinois Urbana Champagne (UIUC). He has over three years' experience in developing open type fonts for Urdu. He has been particularly involved in Script Processing specifically Urdu font development. He has also worked on modifying/enhancing the Linux rendering engine to provide contextual substitution support for Urdu using open type technology.

Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand

He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Furui Laboratory at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Currently he heads the Speech Technology section at National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand. He has experience working on various fields of Speech Processing including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS), Speaker Recognition, Speech Corpus Development, and Spoken Dialogue Systems. He has played an important role in pioneering several official Thai Speech

Corpora developed by NECTEC and a collaborative group of NECTEC and ATR, Japan since 2000. He is now involved in the Foundation of Asian Speech Translation Research Basis hosted by ATR, Japan.

Dr. Yogendra Yadava, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

He is professor and head of linguistics at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. The major areas of his interest include Generative Syntax, Language Typology, and Lexicography. Dr. Yadava completed PhD in linguistics at the Central Institute for English and foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India writing a dissertation on Maithili syntax. He has co-edited Lexicography in Nepal (1998), Topics in Nepalese linguistics (1999), and Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics (2005) and edited Readings in Maithili language, literature and culture (1999). Currently he is

engaged in Bhashasanchar, an EU-funded project for localization of Information and Communication Technology in Nepali language. Formerly the president of Linguistic Society of Nepal, Professor Yadava is now the chief editor of Nepalese Linguistics.

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