2019 Jelinek Memorial Workshop Photo Gallery
July 18, 2019
All photos are courtesy of Jan Trmal.
News & Articles
Hynek Hermansky receives 2020 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
July 5, 2019
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 promoted to professor
June 12, 2019
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 […]
Speech recognition software and machine learning tools are being used to create diagnostic test for Parkinson’s Disease
March 27, 2019
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 […]
Jason Eisner honored by Association for Computational Linguistics
March 18, 2019
According to the Association for Computational Linguistics, the primary international scientific and professional society for scholars focused on computational problems involving human language, its Fellows are recognized for “contributions to the field [that] have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community, and/or educational or outreach […]
Jason Eisner elected ACL Fellow
January 3, 2019
Computer Science professor Jason Eisner has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics for “significant contributions to probabilistic models and algorithms for finding linguistic structure, especially lexicalized syntax and morphology.” Established in 2011, the ACL Fellows program recognizes members whose “contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical […]
Mark Dredze appointed the John C. Malone Associate Professorship
September 20, 2018
Mark Dredze, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been appointed as a John C. Malone Associate Professor. The John C. Malone Associate Professorship was endowed through the generosity of John C. Malone ’64, ’69 to support outstanding Whiting School faculty members within the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Mark develops new methods […]
