Ron Weiss

Ron Weiss is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He is a graduate research assistant working for Professor Dan Ellis in the Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio (LabROSA) where his research interests primarily revolve around model based source separation with a bit of music signal analysis thrown in for good measure. You can find more information on the projects page.

Ron obtained his B.S. in computer engineering 2004 and his M.S. in electrical engineering in 2005, both from Columbia's illustrious FFSEAS.

Among other things, Ron enjoys electrical engineering, long walks on the beach, bottom posting, emacs, pointless boycotts, and writing about himself in the third person.

Teaching

Ron has been a teaching assistant for:

• Spring 2007: ELEN E4896/E4998 Music Signal Processing
• Spring 2005: ELEN E4896 Music Signal Processing
• Fall 2004: GIST E4060/E3060 Introduction to Genomic Information Science and Technology
• Fall 2003: COMS W4118 Operating Systems I

Publications

• R. J. Weiss, M. I. Mandel and D. P. W. Ellis, Source separation based on binaural cues and source model constraints, Interspeech 2008. poster
• R. J. Weiss and T. Kristjansson, DySANA: Dynamic Speech and Noise Adaptation for Voice Activity Detection, Interspeech 2008. poster
• R. J. Weiss and D. P. W. Ellis, "Speech separation using speaker-adapted eigenvoice speech models", Computer Speech and Language, accepted for publication.
• R. J. Weiss and D. P. W. Ellis, "Monaural Speech Separation Using Source-Adapted Models", in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 2007, pp. 114-117. talk slides supplemental material
• R. J. Weiss and D. P. W. Ellis, "Estimating Single-Channel Source Separation Masks: Relevance Vector Machine Classifiers vs. Pitch-Based Masking", ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing, SAPA 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 16 2006. talk slides
• D. P. W. Ellis and R. J. Weiss, "Model-based Monaural Source Separation Using a Vector-Quantized Phase-Vocoder Representation", in Proc. ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, May 14-19 2006.

Contact information

Send email to ronw at ee.columbia.edu, or stop by 7LE4 CEPSR.

Physical correspondence should be addressed to:

Columbia University
Department of Electrical Engineering
500 West 120 Street, Room 1312
New York, NY 10027