Communications and Information Technology
Dr. Marc A. Zissman - Biography
Dr. Marc A. Zissman is Assistant Head of the Communications and Information Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He shares responsibility for research, development, evaluation, and technology transfer in the areas of information assurance, advanced military communications, wideband tactical networking on-the-move, and language processing. Previously, he was Leader of the Wideband Tactical Networking Group. In that position, he managed research and development of on-the-move network nodes for ground forces.
Dr. Zissman joined the Laboratory in 1983, and his early research focused on digital speech processing, including parallel computing for speech coding and recognition, co-channel talker interference suppression, language and dialect identification, and cochlear-implant processing for the profoundly deaf. After working for one year at the Department of Defense under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act program, his research interests expanded to include information assurance technology. He served for four years as a U.S. technical specialist to the NATO IST-011/TG-001 task group, which studies military applications of speech technology for NATO. He was elected to and served for four years on the Speech Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He also served for four years on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology Study Group.
Dr. Zissman holds SB, SM, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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