Hugo De Vries
I am (since August 2006) employed by the DSTO in Adelaide, SA.
My research interests are Speech Technology, Information Extraction, Machine Learning, and whatever comes my way.
Background
I studied Speech and Language Processing at Macquarie University, in 1999-2000;
worked since for the much-lamented Syrinx Spoken Dialog Systems company in Sydney (a.k.a. "sayso!"), for the Fraunhofer-AIS research institute and Medav GmbH in Germany on audio- and text classification projects, and for Prof. Robert Dale at Macquarie University and at CMCRC on Information Extraction projects for the financial markets.
Several previous lives passed before this one: - in the film- and tv industry in both Europe and Australia (1970s, 1980s);
- moonlighting as a builder (80s and 90s);
- teaching practical audio and music at Macquarie Uni (1990s).
I am Dutch by birth and character, but have recently been converted to Australian.
There is a resume, if you are
really interested.
And for the insatiably curious, pix of my Sydney home: my private beach ;) my house (top left, turquoise), my kid brother (in the middle).
Contact Information
Hugo De Vries
phone bh +61 (0)8 8259 4932
Home:
44 Eight St, Gawler SA 5118
phone: +61 (0)8 8522 2279
mobile: +61 (0)423 291 424
email:
hdevries at ics.mq.edu.au
hugo.devries at dsto.defence.gov.au
Directions to my old place at Wobby here!
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