AT&T Labs Research has recently hired three people in the area of speech and multimodal processing - Amanda Stent, Diamantino Caseiro, and Danilo Giulianelli

Amanda Stent
Dr. Amanda J. Stent is an expert on dialog systems and natural language and multimodal generation.  She is the author of over 30 journal and conference publications in these areas.

She received the B.A. degree in mathematics and music from Houghton College, Houghton, NY in 1996 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY in 1998 and 2001 respectively.  She is currently with AT&T Labs -- Research in Florham Park, NJ.

Diamantino Caseiro
Diamantino Caseiro received the Licenciatura, M.S. and Ph.D. in Informatics and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal in 1994, 1998 and 2003, respectively. From 2004 to 2007, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico. Until 2007, he held a Senior Researcher position with the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC-ID Lisbon.

His research interests include spoken language processing using weighted finite-state transducers, large vocabulary speech recognition, language modeling, machine translation, and search.

Danilo Giulianelli
Danilo Giulianelli started his career at Italtel Sit in Milan, where he worked as software developer and integrator on the DACScan(TM)-2000 Controller OSS product, a distributed application controlling DACS V Digital Cross-Connect Systems.

Danilo then joined Bell Labs in 1994 where he worked as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff on several broadband access projects for Alcatel-Lucent (formerly AT&T):

* HFC-2000 - an Hybrid Fiber-Coax system carrying TV and telephony to customer premises.

* AnyMedia Access System DLC - a flexible, high-density, multi service access platform supporting both narrow  band and broadband services using plug-and-play application packs.

* 7342 ISAM FTTU - an Giga bit Ethernet/IP-based passive optical networking system (GPON),  enabling service providers to realize ultra-broadband and triple play services.

As a lead software architect and developer, he contributed to these products in areas such as user interface (TL1, SNMP), call processing (SIP), database management, fault tolerance, and real-time object-oriented modeling.

Danilo Giulianelli joined AT&T Research in Florham Park in July 2007 and is working for the IP & Voice services Lab on highly scalable speech and multimodal platforms.

He graduated from the University of Pisa, Italy, and holds two U.S patents. His interests include classical music and cooking.