Louis Terry was born in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1983. He received his Masters of Science from Northwestern University's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2007 with his thesis entitled "Ergodic Hidden Markov Models for Visual-Only Isolated Digit Recognition". He received his Bachelor of Science from the same department in 2005. He is currently working towards his Doctoral degree in the area of Audio-Visual Signal Processing focusing on contextual modeling of the acoustic, visual, and linguistic environments and their effects in the context of audio-visual automatic speech recognition.
     Louis has participated in a number of groups at Northwestern University ranging from being a member of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee to the Vice-President of Social Affairs for his dorm to a representative of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department on the McCormick Graduate Leadership Council.
     In addition to his Master's and Doctoral research at Northwestern University, Louis has interned twice at Motorola in the Center for Human Interaction Research group. Louis spent the summer of 2006 building an audio-based speaker identification and verification system for use on mobile phones. In the summer of 2007, he built a voice-activated web browsing experience for use on a mobile phone that voice enabled regular websites without the need for additional markup or work by the web designers.
     Louis's interests also include computer vision, specifically object recognition and tracking, and its applications; stochastic modeling, pattern recognition, and signal analysis in financial and economic contexts (i.e., securities modeling, algorithmic trading, market predictors, etc.); and general multi-stream information fusion.

• M.S. Thesis: "Ergodic Hidden Markov Models for Visual-Only Isolated Digit Recognition"
• M.S. Defense
• Resume