T. V. Raman, Curriculum Vitae

Summary

I am an accomplished Computer Scientist with over 8 years of industry experience in advanced technology development. During this time, I have authored 2 books and filed over 20 patents; my work on auditory interfaces was profiled in the September 1996 issue of Scientific American. I have leading edge expertise in auditory interfaces, scripting languages, Internet technologies including Web server applications and Web standards. I participate in numerous W3C working groups and authored Aural CSS (ACSS); in 1996 I wrote the first ACSS implementation. I have been actively participating in defining XML specifications for the next generation WWW including XForms, XML Events, and XHTML+Voice.

Objective

Develop technologies that drive the future of the Web toward eyes-free, ubiquitous information access. Speech is the next natural dimension in user interfaces, and I am developing products that combine speech technologies with the power of the Web to deliver innovative multimodal applications that are available anytime, anywhere.

Education

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • PhD. Applied Mathematics: Aug 1989-Jan 1994.
    Awarded the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1994.
    Thesis: Audio System For Technical Readings.
    Thesis Adviser: Prof. David Gries, Computer Science.
  • MS Computer Science: May 1992.

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India: MSc Computer Science: GPA: 9.78/10.00 July 1989.
• University of Pune, Pune, India: BA Mathematics: May 1987.

Work experience

• IBM Research, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
  Research Staff Member: Conversational Multimodal WWW.

  [XForms] Authoring multimodal applications for the next generation WWW.

  Handhelds

  Speech-enabling handheld devices.

• Adobe Systems, Advanced Technology Group, San Jose, CA
  Senior Computer Scientist: Dynamic publishing on the Internet. Oct 1995-Aug 1999.

  PDF2HTML

  Developed the PDF to HTML translator bundled with major Web search engines -access.adobe.com.

  XML Metadata

  Developed an XML-based virtual document architecture to enable cross-application content reuse.

• Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research Lab, Cambridge, MA
  Research Staff: Retriever -A Multimodal Web Interface. Feb 1994-Oct 1995.
• Intel Corporation, Intel Architecture Labs, Hillsboro, OR
  Summer Associate: Prototyped an email telephony interface. Jun-Aug 1993.
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
  Summer Associate: Prototyped a new reading machine architecture. May-Aug 1991.

Selected Awards and Honors

• Computerworld Award Smithsonian Institution Emacspeak: Complete Audio Desktop. April 1999.
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award 1994.
• Intel Graduate Fellowship Intel Corporation, CA 1992.
• Graduate Fellowship Cornell University. 1989.
• President's Silver Medal Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. 1989.
• Sir Cusrow Wadia Gold Medal University of Pune. 1987.
• Sir Ness Wadia Gold Medal. 1984.

Books And Patents

1. T. V. Raman. Auditory User Interfaces -Toward The Speaking Computer. Kluwer Academic Publishers, August 1997.

2. T. V. Raman. Audio System For Technical Readings.

   LNCS 1410, Springer Verlag, December 1998.

3. T. V. Raman. Generating audio renderings of digitized works. Cornell Univ. U.S. Patent 5,572,625, November 1996.

4. T. V. Raman and Jim A. Larson. Telephone access system. Intel Corporation. U.S. Patent 5,825,854, October 1998.

5. T. V. Raman. Multimodal information presentation system. DEC. U.S. Patent 5,748,186, May 1998.

6. T. V. Raman. Data stream processing on networks. Adobe Systems. U.S. Patent 6,134,598, October 17, 2000.

7. T. V. Raman and John Warnock. Digitized speech and text. Adobe Systems. U.S. Patent 6,151,576, November 2000.

8. T. V. Raman. Document description format. Adobe Systems. U.S. Patent 6,249,794, June 6, 2001.

9. T. V. Raman. Speech interface for computer application programs DEC. U.S. Patent 6,289,312, September 11, 2001.

Selected Publications And Articles

1. T. V. Raman. Netsurfing without a monitor. Scientific American, March 1997. Special Internet Edition.

2. T. V. Raman. Emacspeak -a speech enabling interface. Dr. Dobb's Journal, September 1997.

3. T. V. Raman.

   User interface -a means to an end. Dr. Dobb's Journal, August 1997.

4. Wayt Gibbs.

   Profile: T. V. raman: Envisioning speech. Scientific American, September 1996.

5. Brian Hayes. Speaking of mathematics. American Scientist, 84(2), March-April 1996.

6. T. V. Raman. Cascaded speech style sheets. WWW6 Conference, CA., April 1997.

7. T. V. Raman.

   Audio System for Technical Readings. PhD thesis, Cornell University, May 1994.

8. T. V. Raman. Emacspeak -a speech interface. CHI96, April 1996.

9. T. V. Raman et al. XForms 1.0 W3c, 2001. http://www.w3.org/tr/xforms
10. T. V. Raman et al. An Event Syntax For XML W3c, 2001. http://www.w3.org/tr/xml-events
11. T. V. Raman et al. Adding Spoken Interaction To XHTML W3c, December, 2001. http://www.w3.org/Submission/2001/13

Other Interests