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Laureano Moro-Velazquez receives Best PhD Thesis Award at Iberspeech 2021
March 30, 2021
Laureano Moro-Velazquez, an assistant research scientist in the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), recently received the Best PhD Thesis Award at Iberspeech 2021. Iberspeech 2021, which was held virtually from March 24-25, is meant to highlight the work of scientists from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. Every two years, the conference’s committee awards […]
Vishal Patel receives NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award
March 24, 2021
The National Science Foundation has selected Vishal Patel, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, for its Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. Using the $500,000, five-year award, Patel and his team aim to […]
Ayah Zirikly combines natural language processing and social media to fight against mental illnesses
March 9, 2021
More than 50% of Americans will be diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in their lifetimes, and one in five will experience mental health challenges, such as anxiety and depression, in any given year. Left untreated, mental illness results in everything from lost productivity and bad relationships to substance use disorders and suicide. […]
Computer Scientist Sabrina Mielke says her summer research internship led her to Hopkins
March 4, 2021
Sabrina Mielke, a first-generation college graduate who immigrated from Germany to the United States, says she first discovered her interest in computer science in middle school during a trip to her local library. “It was a magical place where you could browse the internet using ‘Google’ to research anything,” said Mielke. To learn more about […]
Piotr Żelasko paper featured in ACL newsletter
September 17, 2020
A paper by Center for Language and Speech Processing assistant research scientist Piotr Żelasko was featured in the September edition of an Association for Computational Linguistics’ newsletter that shares recent developments in computational typology and multilingual natural language processing. “The paper’s inclusion says that the contribution is interesting to the broader community of speech and […]
Alan Yuille and Rama Chellappa added as members of CLSP
August 27, 2020
The Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) enjoyed a boost to its ranks recently with the additions of two Bloomberg Distinguished Professors: Alan Yuille, who holds joint primary appointments with the departments of Computer Science, and Cognitive Science, and Rama Chellappa, who holds joint primary appointments with the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, […]
