The 12th Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Schedule
All lectures will be held in Hackerman Hall, room B17. All labs will be held in Malone Hall, room 122 or Hackerman Hall B17 (if indicated).
The morning lectures are open to the public. We request that you inform us at least one day in advance if you plan to attend (e-mail: jsalt2026@jhu.edu).
Participation in the laboratories may be limited by the number of available workstations, and attendance is by permission only; contact us if interested.
Monday, June 15
Lab: Malone Hall, Room 122
Foundations of ML & Deep Learning (Including Historical Context)
Hosts: Najim Dehak and Massa Baali
Selected presentation slides from today’s lectures are available here.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–9:10 a.m. | Welcome (Sanjeev Khudanpur) |
| 9:10–10:30 a.m. | Lecture 1 |
| 10:30–10:50 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:50 a.m.–12:10 p.m. | Lecture 2 |
| 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 1:10–1:40 p.m. | Lab setup |
| 1:40–5:00 p.m. | Lab |
Tuesday, Jun 16
Lab: Malone Hall, Room 122
LLMs: Pretraining + Post-training & Alignment
Hosts: Daniel Khashabi & Nathan Breslow
Selected presentation slides from today’s lectures are available here.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–10:20 a.m. | Lecture 1 |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Lecture 2 |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 1:00–1:30 p.m. | Lab setup |
| 1:30–5:00 p.m. | Lab |
Wednesday, June 17
Lab: Malone Hall, Room 122
Natural Language Processing (Core Methods)
Host: Jason Eisner
Selected presentation slides from today’s lectures are available for download:
• Classical NLP (PowerPoint)
• Competitive Grammar Writing (PowerPoint)
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–10:20 a.m. | Lecture 1 |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Lecture 2 |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 1:00–1:30 p.m. | Lab setup |
| 1:30–5:00 p.m. | Lab |
Thursday, June 18
Lab: Hackerman Hall, Room B17
Responsible AI and Evaluation
Hosts: Kristina Gligoric & Delip Rao
Selected presentation slides from today’s lectures are available here.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–10:20 a.m. | Lecture 1: Responsible AI |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Lab 1 |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 1:00–2:20 p.m. | Lecture 2: Evaluation |
| 2:20–2:40 p.m. | Stretch break |
| 2:40–4:00 p.m. | Lab 2 |
| 4:00–5:00 p.m. | Panel discussion and Q&A |
Friday, June 19
Lab: Malone Hall, Room 122
Speech Understanding by Humans and Machines
Hosts: Sanjeev Khundanpur & Moira-Phoebe Huet
Selected presentation slides from today’s lectures are available for download here.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–10:00 a.m. | Lecture: Human Auditory Perception (Moïra-Phoebe Huet) |
| 10:15–11:15 a.m. | Lecture: Mathematics of ASR and Hybrid HMM/DNN Systems (Sanjeev Khudanpur) |
| 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Lecture: End-to-End ASR Systems and Self-Supervised Learning (Sanjeev Khudanpur) |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own or Pizza on the Quad) |
| 1:30–4:30 p.m. | ASR Lab: Signal Representation, Subword Modeling, and Sequence Training (Cihan Xiao, Xavier Velez & Paola Garcia) |
| 4:30–5:00 p.m. | ASR Lab: Examination and Discussion of Recognition Errors and Successes (All participants) |
Monday, June 22
Lab: Hackerman Hall, Room B17
Speech Production by Humans and Machines
Hosts: Mark Hassegawa, Laureano Moro & Shinji Watanabe
Selected presentation slides from today’s lectures are available for download here.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–10:20 a.m. | Lecture 1 (Laureano & Mark) |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:40 a.m.–12:40 p.m. | Laboratory session, interactive activities, and additional lectures |
| 12:40–1:40 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 1:40–3:00 p.m. | Lecture 2 (Shinji) |
| 3:00–3:20 p.m. | Stretch break |
| 3:20–5:20 p.m. | Laboratory session, interactive activities, and additional lectures |
Tuesday, June 23
Lab: Hackerman Hall, Room B17
Agentic AI, RAG & Multiagent Systems and Human subjects in AI
Hosts: Philipp Koehn & Ziang Xiao
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–10:20 a.m. | Lecture 1 |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Lab / Interactive Session |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00–2:20 p.m. | Lecture 2 |
| 2:20–2:40 p.m. | Stretch break |
| 2:40–4:00 p.m. | Lab / Interactive Session |
| 4:00–5:00 p.m. | Final discussion and wrap-up |
Wednesday, June 24
Lab: Malone Hall, Room 122
Spoken Conversational AI Systems
Hosts: Ondrej Klejch & Maike Züfle
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–10:20 a.m. | Lecture 1 (Ondrej Klejch) |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Lecture 2 (Maike Züfle) |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 1:00–1:30 p.m. | Lab setup |
| 1:30–5:00 p.m. | Lab |
Thursday, June 25
Lab: Malone Hall, Room 122
Multimodal Representation Learning & Encoders
Hosts: Ruohan Gao, Pavel Golik & David Harwath
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–9:50 a.m. | Lecture 1 – Overview, Speech and Audio Encoders (David Harwath) |
| 9:50–10:05 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:05–10:55 a.m. | Lecture 2 – Integrating Multimodal Encoders with LLMs (Pavel Golik) |
| 10:55–11:10 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 11:10 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Lecture 3 – Image and Video Encoders (Ruohan Gao) |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 1:00–1:30 p.m. | Discussion |
| 1:30–5:00 p.m. | Lab |
Friday, June 26
Lab: Malone Hall, Room 122
Uncertainty-Aware Conversational AI
Hosts: Iva Bojic, Mahnoosh Mehrabani & Victor Schlegel
Selected presentation slides from today’s lectures are available here.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast (provided) |
| 9:00–10:10 a.m. | Lecture 1: Uncertainty Quantification for Trustworthy Conversational AI (Mahnoosh Mehrabani) |
| 10:10–10:30 a.m. | Stretch break |
| 10:30–11:30 a.m. | Lecture 2: Conversational AI Beyond Chat (Iva Bojic and Michael Tanzer) |
| 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. | Privacy Preserving AI (Guest Speaker: Viktor Schlegel) |
| 1:30–2:00 p.m. | Lab setup |
| 2:00–5:00 p.m. | Lab: Hands-on Uncertainty Analysis and Calibration for Large Language Models (Mehmet Emre Tiryaki and Mahnoosh Mehrabani) |
| 5:00-6:00 p.m. | Ice Cream Social |
