Doc. Dr. Ing. Jan Černocký

Education:

• 1995 - 98: Joint Czech-French doctoral fellowship "co-tutelle" at the Institute of Radioelectronics, VUT Brno, and Department of Signals and Telecommunications, ESIEE Paris, France. Directors: Vladimir Sebesta (VUT Brno), Gerard Chollet (ENST Paris). Thesis: "Speech Processing Using Automatically Derived Segmental Units: Applications to Very Low Rate Coding and Speaker Verification" defended at Orsay University (France) on December 18, 1998, with honors and congratulations of jury.
• 1994 - 95: DEA (Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies) at the University Paris XI, Faculty of Sciences, Orsay, France. Specialty "Signal processing and Sensors". DEA finished in September 95 with "very good" evaluation, ranking 2nd in the specialty.
• 1993 - 94: Post-graduate studies at the Institute of Radioelectronics, VUT Brno.
• 1988 - 93: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (FEI) of VUT Brno. Studies finished with a "red diploma" (award for excellent results throughout the 5 years) and the Electrical engineer (Ing.) degree.

Professional career:

• Feb. 2002 - now: Assistant professor FIT VUT Brno. Deputy head of at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Multimedia.
• Oct. 1997 - Jan 2002: Assistant professor at the Institute of Radioelectronics FEI VUT Brno.
• Sept. 1994 - Sept. 1997: Technical staff at the Institute of Radioelectronics FEI VUT Brno.
• June - July 1993: Part-time research and development engineer, SECMAT N.T., La Verriere, France.

Stays abroad:

• 3/1993-7/1993 France - ESIEE Paris diploma project (Tempus exchange).
• 9/1994-7/1998 France - Université Paris-Sud/ESIEE DEA, 3 stays (each 6 months) during the PhD.
• 2/2001-9/2001 USA - Oregon Graduate Inst. post-doc research internship, Anthropic Speech Processing Group

Research interests:

signal processing, speech processing (very low bit rate coding, verification, recognition), segmental methods, data-driven determination of speech units.

Memberships:

• IEEE IT manager of Czechoslovak section)
• ISCA (International speech communication assocation)

Other interests:

family, music (clarinet, playing in folklore group Javornik), RC airplanes, hiking, bike.

My favorite links:

• Speech@FIT - web of our research group
• Homepage of the course "Signls, processes, systems (SXC)"
• Homepage of my speech processing courses
• Eastern European Speech Databases for Creation of Voice Driven Teleservices
• M4: MultiModal Meeting Manager
• AMI: Augmented MultiModal Interaction
• Multimodal meeting server at IDIAP

The Honza story:

People keep asking me if my name is Jan, Honza, both or whatever happened that I was Jan before and Honza now... Here is the story:

• Honza is a Germanized form of Jan: Jan -> Hans -> Honza, here in Czech it is very common familiar way to call Jan (actually, 'Jan' is in my papers but no one ever calls me like that).
• HOWEVER: Jan is easy to pronounce for foreigners, so when I did the PhD thesis in France, I used to call myself 'Jan' (French people even can't say 'h' ;-)
• BUT: when I came to Hynek's lab at OGI in 2001, he called me Honza (of course, as he's Czech) and started to introduce me to other people also as 'Honza'! Finally I started to use it abroad too, though it causes some occasional problems with people I knew in pre-Hynek period ;-). In Oct 2006 I put it even to "Sender name" in my e-mail software.
• Conclusion: Jan=Honza. Use the one you prefer.