MIT Media Lab

Brandon Roy, Cognitive Machines


I am currently working toward my PhD at the MIT Media Lab. I work in the Cognitive Machines group. The primary emphasis of my work is on the Human Speechome Project. Read more about it here.

You can read some papers

I am interested in where meaning comes from, and how machines might learn to understand and communicate in meaningful ways.

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If you are visiting me, my office is E15-441. Here are directions!

Here are some courses I have taken at MIT:
Fall 2005
  • MAS510/511 - Signals, Systems, Information
  • 6.867 - Machine Learning

    • Spring 2006
  • 6.441 - Transmission of Information
  • MAS836 - Sensor Systems for Interactive Environments

    • Fall 2006
  • 9.913 - Pattern Recognition for Vision

    • I was an undergraduate at Brown University and studied computer science. Later, I joined Stratify, Inc., a startup company in Silicon Valley and worked with Dr. Joy Thomas on machine learning and data mining algorithms for text analysis.
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