Michael Riley

Google, USA

Biography

Michael Riley has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT, all in computer science.  He began his career at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs where he, together with Mehryar Mohri and Fernando Pereira, introduced and developed the theory and use of weighted finite-state transducers (WFSTs) in speech and language.  He is currently a senior staff research scientist at Google, Inc.  His interests include speech and natural language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval.  He is a principal author of the OpenFst library and the AT&T FSM Library (TM).  He manages a group with expertise that includes natural language parsing, document and sentiment analysis, automata and speech recognition algorithms, and machine learning.