Ron Weiss

Update June 2009:

I defended my dissertation in May 2009 (watch me write it) and am now a postdoc working with Prof. Juan Bello at MARL at NYU.

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). 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 and D. P. W. Ellis, "Speech separation using speaker-adapted eigenvoice speech models", Computer Speech and Language, 2010.
M. I. Mandel, R. J. Weiss, and D. P. W. Ellis, "Model-Based Expectation-Maximization Source Separation and Localization" IEEE Tr. Audio, Speech, and Lang. Proc., accepted for publication.
R. J. Weiss, "Underdetermined Source Separation Using Speaker Subspace Models", Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, May 2009. defense slides
R. J. Weiss and D. P. W. Ellis, "A Variational EM Algorithm for Learning Eigenvoice Parameters in Mixed Signals", ICASSP 2009. poster
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, "Monaural Speech Separation Using Source-Adapted Models", 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. talk slides
D. P. W. Ellis and R. J. Weiss, "Model-based Monaural Source Separation Using a Vector-Quantized Phase-Vocoder Representation", ICASSP 2006.

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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
1300 S.W. Mudd
500 West 120 Street
New York, NY 10027