Ken Schutte

contact: kschutte@mit.edu | (617) 460-0089

Research Interests:
 speech recognition, understanding and indexing general audio,
 machine learning, signal processing

Education:
 2003-present   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Pursuing PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
 * Member of the Spoken Language Systems (SLS) group within
   the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)
 * GPA: 5.0 / 5.0, MIT Presidential Fellow
 * Teaching assistant for Signals & Systems (6.003) Fall 2004

 2001-2003      Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
   received June 2003
 * Thesis research involves signal processing techniques for the 
   enhancement of speech intelligibility
 * Member of the Advanced Television and Signal Processing Group 
   under Professor Jae S. Lim
 * Worked as grader for graduate course in Discrete-Time Signal Processing

 1997-2001        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 * Electrical Engineering major, Computer Science minor
 * GPA   3.8 / 4.0
 * Recipient of the Henry O. Koehler Scholarship, Caterpillar Academic 
   Scholarship, and E.C. Jordan Award.
 * Member of Eta Kappa Nu ECE honors society
 * Member of Delta Upsilon fraternity

Experience:
 Summer 2003      Charles River Analytics             Cambridge, MA
 Intern in CRA's Machine Vision Group
 * Helped design and develop system for vehicle classification using
   acoustic and vibrometry measurements.   
 * Analyzed and implemented various feature sets for this task in both
   Matlab and C++
 * Developed GUI for data selection and classification

 Summer 2002      Zenith Electronics Corporation      Lincolnshire, IL
 Intern in Digital Television Research & Development group
 * Worked on hardware design (VHDL) for DTV transport stream multiplexer
 * Gained thorough knowledge of ATSC and MPEG-2 standards

 Summer 2000      Princeton Summer Institute          Princeton, NJ
 Participant in summer research program at Princeton University
 * Worked on processor hardware design using VHDL & Verilog
 * Studied DSP and embedded systems for system-on-a-chip applications
 * Attended many multi-disciplinary lectures in areas of EE, CS and physics 

 1999-2000        Undergraduate Teaching Assistant    Urbana, IL
 TA for Electrical and Computer Engineering 110
 * Held regular office hours, answered questions, and tutored students
 * Graded exams and helped with online tutorials

 Summer 1999      Bioacoustics Research Laboratory    Urbana, IL
 Research Assistant at the Beckman Institute's BRL
 * Collected and analyzed data for an acoustic imaging research project
 * Used Matlab and LabView software daily