Xuankai Chang, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is also a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, admits that he had not given much thought to the idea of winning the Best Paper award at IEEE’s Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop in Singapore. Despite being […]
Hynek Hermansky, the Julian S. Smith Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), has been named the recipient of the 2020 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. Administered through IEEE’s Technical Field Council, this award is given annually in recognition of outstanding contributions […]
Mounya Elhilali, a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing who is a Charles Renn Faculty Scholar that joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008 as an assistant professor, was recently promoted to professor from associate professor. ECE Department Chair Ralph Etienne-Cummings describes Elhilali as part of a “new breed […]
Diagnosing Parkinson’s Disease is tricky. Instead of the blood tests and imaging used to help detect other diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, and heart problems, clinicians must rely on observations of the way patients move and speak, which is an often long and painstaking process. Laureano Moro Velazquez wants to change that. A post-doctoral student […]
