Bio

Dr. Tiomkin is the recent recipient of the Quantum Corporation Faculty Teaching Fellow Award.  Dr. Tiomkin plans to use the award to help design an interdisciplinary platform for teaching engineering students. The platform will include elements of artificial intelligence, network, and hardware devices. The goal is to introduce students to the design of Perception-Action Cycle in real robotic systems with sensors, actuators, and 'brain', which is a prototype of many intelligent systems. 

Dr. Stas Tiomkin is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University. Before joining San Jose State University, Dr. Tiomkin was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Pieter Abbeel’s  Robot Learning Lab at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD under the guidance of Prof. Nafatli Tishby and Prof. Daniel Polani in Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew University in Israel. Previously, he received his MSc from the Vterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology. A double major BSc in Computer Engineering and Physics he graduated from Hebrew University. 

His professional interests include automatic speech recognition, artificial intelligence, text-to-speech synthesis, language modeling, speech processing and enhancement, human-machine collaboration, robotics, structured deep learning, and information theory granting him extensive experience in academia and the industry.