Brian O. Bush

Ph.D., Computer Science, Oregon Health & Science University, 2010-2015.
Dissertation: Modeling Coarticulation in Continuous Speech
Advisor: Alexander Kain
Dissertation can be found at OHSU digital commons.
M.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering, Ohio University, 1994-1996.
Thesis: Development of a Fuzzy System Design Strategy Using Evolutionary Computation
Advisor: Luis Rabelo
B.A., Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Hiram College, 1990-1994.

January 2014 - present
Staff Technologist at Sensory
Focus: Speaker verification and other speech-related research and development
October 2010 - November 2013
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Symantec Corporation
Focus: NLP product focused on text classification for the enterprise market
June 2003 - October 2010
Architect & Co-founder of RuleSpace, LLC
Focus: NLP product design, development for parental controls market

B. Bush, A. Kain, Modeling Coarticulation in Continuous Speech, Interspeech 2014, pp.193-197, 2014. [pdf][poster][on location]
B. Bush, Language Identification of Tweets Using LZW Compression. 3rd Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop: NW-NLP 2014, April 24, 2014. [pdf][poster][on location]
B. Bush, A. Kain, Estimating Phoneme Formant Targets and Coarticulation Parameters of Conversational and Clear Speech, ICASSP, pp.8017-8021, 2013. [pdf][poster][on location]
B. Bush, J.-P. Hosom, A. Kain, and A. Amano-Kusumoto, Using a Genetic Algorithm to Estimate Parameters of a Coarticulation Model, Interspeech, pp.2677-2680, 2011. [pdf][poster]
Hosom, John-Paul and Kain, Alexander and Bush, Brian, Towards the recovery of targets from coarticulated speech for automatic speech recognition, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(4), pp.2407-2407, 2011.
Rabelo, L., Bush, B., Jones, A., Using Genetic Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling, Journal Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing, May 1998.
Bush, B., Kharoufeh, J., Rabelo, L., Development of an Evolutionary Scheme for Adaptive Fuzzy Design, Proceedings of the Adaptive Distributive Parallel Computing Symposium, Dayton, Ohio, August 8-9, 1996.
Bush, B. and Rabelo, L. Evolutionary Scheme for Adaptive Fuzzy Design in Mechatronics, Proceedings of the NSF Mechatronics Workshop, San Francisco, CA, June 13-15, 1996, pp. 85-95.
Gilkinson, J., Rabelo, L., Bush, B., A Real World Scheduling Problem Using Genetic Algorithms, Computer & Industrial Engineering, An International Journal, Pergamon Press, Vol. 29, pp.177-182, 1995.