Curriculum Vitae. Since 04/2011: Profesor Adjunto. Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires.

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1 Curriculum Vitae Full name: Mailing address: Agustín Gravano Depto. de Computación, Facultad de Cs. Exactas y Naturales, UBA Pabellón I - Ciudad Universitaria - Buenos Aires (1428) - ARGENTINA Phone/Fax: (+54) Web page: Current Positions Since 11/2010: Investigador Científico Asistente, National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET). Supervisors: Ing. Jorge Gurlekian (jag@fmed.uba.ar), Dra. Verónica Becher (vbecher@dc.uba.ar). Since 04/2011: Profesor Adjunto. Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires. Education Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Columbia University. May Thesis: Turn-Taking and Affirmative Cue Words in Task-Oriented Dialogue. Advisor: Prof. Julia Hirschberg (julia@cs.columbia.edu). The thesis was awarded distinction. Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Computer Science. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Columbia University. October Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Columbia University. October Licenciado en Ciencias de la Computación. Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires. July Thesis: Study of Problems, Properties, and Algorithms for Circular-Arc and Circle Graphs. Advisor: Prof. Guillermo Durán (willy@dc.uba.ar). Research Experience Since 11/2010: Investigador Científico Asistente, National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET). Since 04/2011: Profesor Adjunto. Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires. 08/ /2010. Post-doctoral researcher. Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires. 03/ /2009: Visiting research scientist at Google Research, New York, NY. Supervisors: Martin Jansche and Michiel Bacchiani. Project: Automatic assignment of prosody to Google s speech synthesizer. 1

2 08/ /2009. Graduate research assistant and doctoral candidate. Spoken Language Processing Group, Computer Science Department, Columbia University. Supervisor: Prof. Julia Hirschberg. 06/ /2008: Summer intern at Google Research, New York, NY. Supervisors: Martin Jansche and Michiel Bacchiani. Project: Study of techniques for automatic restoration of punctuation and capitalization in transcribed speech. 06/ /2004: Summer intern at IBM, Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY. Supervisors: Yuqing Gao and Ruhi Sarikaya. Project: Enriching the language model of IBM s automatic speech recognizer (ASR), using large amounts of data taken from the Internet. 11/ /2001. Intern in the Graph Theory Research Group, Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires. Supervisor: Prof. Guillermo Durán. Teaching Experience Professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires: Introduction to Computer Science (1-2012, , ). Introduction to Speech Processing (2-2010, , , ). Algorithms and Data Structures I (2-2012, ). Teaching assistant at the Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires: Communications Theory (1-2011; Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos; Prof.: Claudio Righetti). Programming Language Paradigms (2-2002, ; Ayudante de Primera; Prof.: Nicolás Kicillof). Algorithms and Data Structures II (1-2001, , ; Ayudante de Primera; Prof.: Marcelo Frías). Algorithms and Data Structures I (1-1998, , , ; Ayudante de Segunda; Prof.: Mónica Bobrowski). Teaching assistant at the Computer Science Department, Columbia University: Spoken Language Processing (1-2005, ; Teaching assistant; Prof.: Julia Hirschberg). Publications Spoken Language Processing R. Levitan, S. Benus, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Entrainment and Turn-Taking in Human- Human Dialogue, AAAI Spring Symposium on Turn-Taking and Coordination in Human- Machine Interaction, Stanford, CA, March A. Gravano, S. Benus, R. Levitan, J. Hirschberg, Three ToBI-based measures of prosodic entrainment and their correlations with speaker engagement, IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), South Lake Tahoe, NV, December

3 S. Benus, A. Gravano, R. Levitan, S.I. Levitan, L. Willson, J. Hirschberg, Entrainment, dominance and alliance in Supreme Court Hearings, Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 71, pages 314, November P. Brusco, L. Ferrer, A. Gravano, Deteccin de palabras claves usando pocos datos de entrenamiento. 20th Argentine Congress on Computer Sciences (CACIC), Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Buenos Aires, October A. Gravano, C. Jul Vidal. A study of turn-yielding cues in human-computer dialogue, Proceedings of the 15th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI-JAIIO 2014), Buenos Aires, September L. Violante, P. Rodríguez Zivic, A. Gravano, Improving speech synthesis quality by reducing pitch peaks in the source recordings, in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT Atlanta, GA, June M. Dell Amerlina Ríos, A. Gravano, Spanish DAL: A Spanish Dictionary of Affect in Language, 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2013). Atlanta, GA, June A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, A corpus-based study of interruptions in spoken dialogue, in Proceedings of Interspeech Portland, OR, September R. Levitan, A. Gravano, L. Willson, S. Benus, J. Hirschberg, A. Nenkova, Acoustic-prosodic entrainment and social behavior, in Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2012, pages Montreal, Canada, June A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, S. Benus, Affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 38(1), pages 1-39, March S. Benus, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Pragmatic aspects of temporal accommodation in turntaking, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 43(12), pages , September A. Gravano, R. Levitan, L. Willson, S. Benus, J. Hirschberg, A. Nenkova, Acoustic and prosodic correlates of social behavior, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, pages Florence, Italy, August L. Dolberg, A. Gravano, Asignación automática de entonación para un sistema de síntesis del habla, 2nd Argentine Workshop on NLP. Córdoba, Argentina, August A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Turn-taking cues in task-oriented dialogue, Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 25(3), pages , July R. Levitan, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Entrainment in Speech Preceding Backchannels, in Proceedings of ACL/HLT 2011 (short paper), pages Portland, OR, June J. Edlund, M. Heldner, S. Al Moubayed, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Very short utterances in conversation, Proceedings of Fonetik Lund, Sweden, June A. Gravano, Modelado de la mimetización entre interlocutores para mejorar la naturalidad de sistemas de diálogo hablado, Subjetividad y Procesos Cognitivos, Vol. 14(2), pages 79-88, May

4 A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Turn-yielding cues in task-oriented dialogue, in Proceedings of SigDial 2009, pages London, U.K., September A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Backchannel-inviting cues in task-oriented dialogue, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, pages London, U.K., September A. Gravano, M. Jansche, M. Bacchiani, Restoring punctuation and capitalization in transcribed speech, in Proceedings of ICASSP 2009, pages Taipei, Taiwan, April A. Nenkova, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, High frequency word entrainment in spoken dialogue, in Proceedings of ACL/HLT 2008 (short paper), pages Columbus, OH, June A. Gravano, S. Benus, J. Hirschberg, E. Sneed, G. Ward, The effect of contour type and epistemic modality on the assessment of speaker certainty, in Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008, pages Campinas, Brazil, May J. Hirschberg, A. Gravano, A. Nenkova, E. Sneed, G. Ward, Intonational overload: uses of the H*!H* L- L% contour in read and spontaneous speech, in Cole, J. and Hualde, J. I. (eds.). Laboratory Phonology 9, pages Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, December A. Gravano, S. Benus, J. Hirschberg, S. Mitchell, I. Vovsha, Classification of discourse functions of affirmative words in spoken dialogue, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, pages Antwerp, Belgium, August S. Benus, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Prosody, emotions, and... whatever, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, pages Antwerp, Belgium, August S. Benus, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, The prosody of backchannels in American English, in Proceedings of ICPhS 2007, pages Saarbrücken, Germany, August A. Gravano, S. Benus, H. Chávez, J. Hirschberg, L. Wilcox, On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of okay, in Proceedings of ACL 2007, pages Prague, Czech Republic, June A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, Effect of genre, speaker, and word class on the realization of given and new information, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, pages Pittsburgh, PA, September R. Sarikaya, A. Gravano, Y. Gao, Rapid language model development using external resources for new spoken dialog domains, in Proceedings of ICASSP 2005, pages Philadelphia, PA, March Graph Theory G. Durán, A. Gravano, R. McConnell, J. Spinrad, A. Tucker, Polynomial time recognition of unit circular-arc graphs, Journal of Algorithms, Vol. 58(1), pages 67-78, January G. Durán, A. Gravano, M. Groshaus, F. Protti, J. Szwarcfiter, On a conjecture concerning Helly circle graphs, Pesquisa Operacional, Vol. 23, pages , April A. Gravano, G. Durán, The intersection between some subclasses of circular-arc and circle graphs, Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 159, pages , December H. Czemerinski, G. Durán, A. Gravano, Bouchet graphs: a generalization of circle graphs, Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 155, pages , December

5 Academic Honors 09/2014. Best Paper Second Prize, 43 Jornadas Argentinas de Informtica (JAIIO), for the paper A study of turn-yielding cues in human-computer dialogue. Authors: A. Gravano, C.A. Jul Vidal. 12/2005 and 12/2006. Extraordinary Teaching Assistant Award conferred by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University. 09/1999. Second prize in the Student Research Contest organized by the 28th Argentine Conference on Computer Science and Operations Research (JAIIO), for the undergraduate student project OBELIX: An operating system in protected mode. Invited Talks Sistemas de diálogo hablado: Demasiada ficción para tan poca realidad?, Semana de la Computación, Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, June Coordination in Human-Human Dialogue, Symposium Vocal Interactions A dialogue across species, at the Annual Meeting of the Argentine Society of Neuroscience, Córdoba, Argentina; October Por qué no habla mi computadora (todavía)?, Semana de la Computación, Computer Science Department, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, September Mimicking the interlocutor s speech: Models of speaker entrainment for improving the naturalness of spoken dialogue systems, at the First Workshop on NLP Tools Applied to Discourse Analysis in Psychology, UCES, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May Breve introducción al procesamiento del habla, at the VII Jornadas de Ciencias de la Computación, Rosario, Argentina, October A model of turn-taking in task-oriented dialogue, at the Language Technologies Institute (LTI), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, February A model of turn-taking in task-oriented dialogue, at AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, February The Columbia Games Corpus: Design, implementation and annotation, at the Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, September Downstepped contours in the given/new distinction, at the Workshop on the Role of Prosody in Structuring Discourse, Berlin, Germany, October Other Professional Activities Since 01/2015. Student Chair of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Buenos Aires, July Since 10/2014. Advisory Board Member, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Master s Degree, UBA. 5

6 08/ /2014. Publicity Co-Chair of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT). South Lake Tahoe, NV, December / /2012. Adjoint Academic Advisor, CS Department (FCEyN, UBA). Chair of ECI 2010 (Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas), Winter school in Computer Science held yearly at the CS Department (FCEyN, UBA). ECI 2010 included 9 courses, 18 invited talks, a poster session by PhD students, and other events. It was attended by 400 students from Argentina and neighboring countries. Degree Thesis Advisor of: Lautaro Dolberg (05/2011); Matías Dell Amerlina Ríos (09/2012); Luisina Violante (09/2012); Verónica Pechersky (12/2012); Claudia Jul Vidal (11/2013); Pablo Brusco (05/2014); Fernando Bugni (12/2014); Ezequiel Saudino (03/2015). Ph.D. Thesis committee member of: Fernando Balbachan (07/2014, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA); Martín Elías Costa (08/2014, FCEyN, UBA). Masters Thesis committee member of: Anthony Lenton (05/2013); Roberto Abalde (06/2014). Degree Thesis committee member of: Pablo Rodríguez Zivic (06/2010); Michael Mizrahi (10/2010); Maximiliano Geier (07/2011); Florencia Campetella (10/2011); Sergio G. Romano (10/2012); Manuel Dubinsky (12/2012); Facundo Carrillo (02/2013); María Julia Carbajal (03/2013); Fernando Jorge Rodríguez (07/2013); Sergio Medina (02/2014). 09/ /2007. Board member of the Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). 10/2002. Member of the organizing committee of the VIII Argentine Congress of Computer Science (CACIC 2002). During my doctoral studies at Columbia University, I co-supervised the research projects of the following graduate and undergraduate students at the Spoken Language Processing Group: Enrique Henestroza ( ), Ilia Vovsha and Shira Mitchell (2006), Lauren Wilcox and Héctor Chávez ( ), and Michael Mulley ( ). Other Work Experience Between 1998 and 2003: Programmer of Internet websites and applications. Participated in the development of numerous small and medium-sized websites. Language Proficiency Spanish (native), English (fluent), German (beginner). 6