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Education

• 2009. Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Major: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Minor: Computational Neuroscience
  
• 2003. S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Major: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  
• 2001. B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  with Highest Honors
  Major: Electrical Engineering
  Minor: Computer Science
  

Academic Research

• 2003-2009. Research assistant. Spoken Language Systems Group (SLS) in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
• 2001-2003. Research assistant. Advanced Telecommunications and Signal Processing Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE).
• 2000. Princeton Summer Institute. Princeton University Electrical Engineering Department.
• 1999. Research assistant. Bioacoustic research laboratory, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL.

Industry Employment

• 2006. Summer intern. Honda Research Institute, Cambridge, MA.
• 2005. Summer intern. Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan.
• 2003. Summer intern. Charles River Analytics, Cambrige, MA. Machine vision group.
• 2002. Summer intern. Zenith Electronics Corporation, Licolnshire, IL.

Teaching

• Spring 2008. Teaching assistant. MIT 6.01: Introduction to EECS I.
• Fall 2004. Teaching assistant. MIT 6.003: Signals & Systems.
• Fall 2002. Grader. MIT 6.341: Discrete-Time Signal Processing.
• Fall 1999, Spring 2000. Teaching assistant. UIUC ECE 110: Introduction to ECE.

Selected Publications

• K. Schutte. Parts-based Models and Local Features for Automatic Speech Recognition. MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2009.
  
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• K. Schutte and J. Glass. Speech Recognition with Localized Time-Frequency Pattern Detectors. Proc. ASRU, 341-346, Kyoto, Japan, December 2007.
  
• R. Rifkin, K. Schutte, M. Saad, J. Bouvrie, and J. Glass. Noise Robust Phonetic Classification with Linear Regularized Least Squares and Second-Order Features. Proc. ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.
  
• R. Rifkin, J. Bouvrie, K. Schutte, S. Chikkerur, M. Kouh, T. Ezzat, and T. Poggio. Phonetic Classification Using Hierarchical, Feed-forward, Spectro-temporal Patch-based Architectures. MIT CSAIL Tech Report 2007-007, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, January, 2007.
• K. Schutte and J. Glass. Robust Detection of Sonorant Landmarks. Proc. Interspeech, 1005-1008, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005.
  
• K. Schutte. An Investigation of Clearly Spoken Speech and Possibilities of Intelligibility Enhancement by Redistribution of Energy. S.M. Thesis. MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 2003.