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Researcher, inventor, project manager
He has managed several projects during his tenure, including: Caption Me Now (a first-of-a-kind project); Conversational Interactivity for Telematics (also FOAK) in which he developed a framework for conversational interactive applications for cars, including the artificial passenger; LIPCOM for IBM France, a tool that provides educational opportunities for deaf children. Among his many accomplishments, Dimitri created IBM ViaScribe for accessible lecture presentation and storage (currently in use by 10 universities); developed speech recognition for embedded multiplatform; developed broadcast news transcription technologies; created the world's first automatic speech recognizer in Russian; developed the first uses for speech recognition as a communication aid for deaf telephone users; and he developed fast iterative algorithms for training speech recognition systems based on discriminative criteria, such as the maximum mutual information criterion.
Dimitri received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in mathematrics from The Moscow State University.
Prior to joining IBM, Dimitri conducted research for several institutions, including Tel Aviv University (Israel), Weitzman Institute of Science (Israel), Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Germany), and the Institute for Advanced Studies (U.S.). In 1979, he founded A.V.A. in Israel to produce and market a portable multi-channel vibration-based hearing aid.
Dimitri received a Research Division Award in 1999 for "Broadcast News Transcription Technologies" and another in 2000 for "ViaVoice for Embedded Multiplatform." He is an IBM Master Inventor. He holds 82 U.S. patents.
