Some of the techniques that he co-invented are well known to the speech community like heteroscedastic discriminant analysis (HDA), lattice-MLLR, fast FSM-based Viterbi decoding, i-vector speaker adaptation for DNNs, joint CNN/DNN training etc. Since 2001, Dr. Saon has been a key member of IBM's speech recognition team which participated in several U.S. government-sponsored evaluations for the EARS, SPINE, GALE, RATS and BOLT programs. He has published over 150 conference and journal papers and holds several patents in the field of ASR.He is the recipient of three best paper awards (EARS RT'04, INTERSPEECH 2010, ASRU 2011) and has served as an elected member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee.