2026 James Glass: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	90	612	595	327	317	459	28389

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to probabilistic segment-based speech recognition and spoken dialogue interfaces

Overview

James Glass is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their primary field of study is computer science, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, signal processing, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including artificial intelligence, signal processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

James Glass has contributed to various topics within computational research, especially:

Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Music and Audio Processing
Topic Modeling
Speech and Audio Processing
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Speech and dialogue systems

Among recent published works attributed to their research are:

SSAST: Self-Supervised Audio Spectrogram Transformer, 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
DiffCSE: Difference-based Contrastive Learning for Sentence Embeddings, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Classifying Alzheimer's Disease Using Audio and Text-Based Representations of Speech, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
Multimodal Clustering Networks for Self-supervised Learning from Unlabeled Videos, 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Cross-Modal Discrete Representation Learning, 2022, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Frequent collaborators include:

Hongyin Luo
Andrew Rouditchenko
Yuan Gong
Yung-Sung Chuang
Hilde Kuehne

The scientist has a substantial publication record in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Journal of Medical Internet Research

James Glass has also authored books published by Indiana University Press, including two editions of Architecture in Indianapolis in 2024.

An award recognizing their contributions is the IEEE Fellow, received in 2014 for work in probabilistic segment-based speech recognition and spoken dialogue interfaces.

Best Publications

AST: Audio Spectrogram Transformer

Yuan Gong;Yu-An Chung;James R. Glass

866
Citations
JUPlTER: a telephone-based conversational interface for weather information

V. Zue;S. Seneff;J.R. Glass;J. Polifroni

821
Citations
Speech database development at MIT: Timit and beyond

Victor Zue;Stephanie Seneff;James R. Glass

810
Citations
Conversational interfaces: advances and challenges

V.W. Zue;J.R. Glass

696
Citations
Analysis Methods in Neural Language Processing: A Survey.

Yonatan Belinkov;James R. Glass

507
Citations
Unsupervised Pattern Discovery in Speech

A.S. Park;J.R. Glass

450
Citations
Unsupervised spoken keyword spotting via segmental DTW on Gaussian posteriorgrams

Yaodong Zhang;James R. Glass

429
Citations
A probabilistic framework for segment-based speech recognition

James R Glass

383
Citations
An Unsupervised Autoregressive Model for Speech Representation Learning.

Yu-An Chung;Wei-Ning Hsu;Hao Tang;James R. Glass

381
Citations
What do neural machine translation models learn about morphology

Yonatan Belinkov;Nadir Durrani;Fahim Dalvi;Hassan Sajjad

362
Citations
Highway long short-term memory RNNS for distant speech recognition

Yu Zhang;Guoguo Chen;Dong Yu;Kaisheng Yaco

346
Citations
Robust Speaker Recognition in Noisy Conditions

Ji Ming;T.J. Hazen;J.R. Glass;D.A. Reynolds

345
Citations
Developments and directions in speech recognition and understanding, Part 1 [DSP Education]

J. Baker;Li Deng;J. Glass;S. Khudanpur

343
Citations
WHEELS: a conversational system in the automobile classifieds domain

H. Meng;S. Busayapongchai;J. Giass;D. Goddeau

320
Citations
Detecting depression with audio/text sequence modeling of interviews

Tuka Al Hanai;Mohammad M. Ghassemi;James R. Glass

319
Citations
Modelling out-of-vocabulary words for robust speech recognition

Issam Bazzi;James Glass

309
Citations
Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled and Interpretable Representations from Sequential Data

Wei-Ning Hsu;Yu Zhang;James R. Glass

307
Citations
GALAXY: a human-language interface to on-line travel information.

David Goddeau;Eric Brill;James R. Glass;Christine Pao

295
Citations
The VOYAGER speech understanding system: preliminary development and evaluation

V. Zue;J. Glass;D. Goodine;H. Leung

291
Citations
From interface to content: translingual access and delivery of on-line information.

Victor W. Zue;Stephanie Seneff;James R. Glass;I. Lee Hetherington

288
Citations
Multilingual language generation across multiple domains.

James R. Glass;Joseph Polifroni;Stephanie Seneff

284
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor W. Zue MIT

Stephanie Seneff MIT

Yonatan Belinkov Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Timothy J. Hazen MIT

Najim Dehak Johns Hopkins University

Preslav Nakov Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Alessandro Moschitti Amazon (United States)

Karen Livescu Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Lluís Màrquez Amazon (United States)

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño University of Bologna

External Links

Personal website of James Glass Google Scholar page

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