The 12th Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Schedule (Tentative)

All lectures will be held in Hackerman Hall, room B17. Labs will be held in Malone Hall, 122 room or Hackerman Hall. 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

Foundations of ML & Deep Learning (incl. historical context) (hosts: Najim Dehak and Massa Baali)

• 08:00 – 09:00 — Continental Breakfast (provided)
• 09:00 – 10:20 — Lecture 1
• 10:20 – 10:40 — Stretch Break
• 10:40 – 12:00 — Lecture 2
• 12:00 – 13:00 — Lunch Break (on your own)
• 13:00 – 13:30 — Lab Setup
• 13:30 – 17:00 — Lab

Tuesday, Jun 16

LLMs: Pretraining + Post-training & Alignment (host: Daniel Khashabi)

Wednesday, June 17

Natural Language Processing (core methods) (host: Jason Eisner)

Thursday, June 18

Responsible AI and Evaluation (hosts: Kristina Gligoric and Delip Rao)

• 08:00 – 09:00 — Continental Breakfast (provided)
• 09:00 – 10:20 — Lecture 1: Responsible AI
• 10:20 – 10:40 — Stretch Break
• 10:40 – 12:00 — Lab 1
• 12:00 – 13:00 — Lunch Break (on your own)
• 13:00 – 14:20 — Lecture 2: Evaluation
• 14:20 – 14:40 — Stretch Break
• 14:40 – 16:00 — Lab 2
• 16:00 – 17:00 — Panel Discussion and Q&A

Friday, June 19

Speech Understanding by Humans and Machines (hosts: Sanjeev Khundanpur and Moira-Phoebe Huet)

Monday, June 22

Speech Production by Humans and Machines (hosts: Mark Hassegawa, Laureano Moro and Shinji Watanabe)

• 08:00 – 09:00 — Continental Breakfast (provided)
• 09:00 – 10:20 — Lecture 1 (Laureano & Mark)
• 10:20 – 10:40 — Stretch Break
• 10:40 – 12:40 — Laboratory Session / Interactive Activities / Additional Lectures
• 12:40 – 13:40 — Lunch Break (on your own)
• 13:40 – 15:00 — Lecture 2 (Shinji)
• 15:00 – 15:20 — Stretch Break
• 15:20 – 17:20 — Laboratory Session / Interactive Activities / Additional Lectures

Tuesday, June 23

Agentic AI, RAG & Multiagent Systems and Human subjects in AI (hosts: Philipp Koehn and Ziang Xiao)

• 08:00 – 09:00 — Continental Breakfast (provided)
• 09:00 – 10:20 — Lecture 1
• 10:20 – 10:40 — Stretch Break
• 10:40 – 12:00 — Lab / Interactive Session
• 12:00 – 13:00 — Lunch
• 13:00 – 14:20 — Lecture 2
• 14:20 – 14:40 — Stretch Break
• 14:40 – 16:00 — Lab/Interactive Session
• 16:00 – 17:00 — Final Discussion and Wrap-up

Wednesday, June 24

Spoken Conversational AI Systems (host: Ondrej Klejch and Maike Züfle)

• 08:00 – 09:00 — Continental Breakfast (provided)
• 09:00 – 10:20 — Lecture 1 (Ondrej Klejch)
• 10:20 – 10:40 — Stretch Break
• 10:40 – 12:00 — Lecture 2 (Maike Züfle)
• 12:00 – 13:00 — Lunch Break (on your own)
• 13:00 – 13:30 — Lab Setup
• 13:30 – 17:00 — Lab

Thursday, June 25

Multimodal Representation Learning (host: David Harwath and Ruohan Gao)

• 08:00 – 09:00 — Continental Breakfast (provided)
• 09:00 – 10:20 — Lecture 1 (Ruohan Gao)
• 10:20 – 10:40 — Stretch Break
• 10:40 – 12:00 — Lecture 2
• 12:00 – 13:00 — Lunch Break (on your own)
• 13:00 – 13:30 — Lab Setup
• 13:30 – 17:00 — Lab

Friday, June 26

Uncertainty-Aware Conversational AI (hosts: Iva Bojic and Mahnoosh Mehrabani)

• 08:00 – 09:00 — Continental Breakfast (provided)
• 09:00 – 10:20 — Lecture 1: Uncertainty Quantification for Trustworthy Conversational AI (Speaker: Mahnoosh Mehrabani)
• 10:20 – 10:40 — Stretch Break
• 10:40 – 12:00 — Lecture 2: Conversational AI Beyond Chat (Speaker: Iva Bojic)

• 12:00 – 13:00 — Lunch Break (on your own)
• 13:00 – 13:30 — Lab Setup
• 13:30 – 17:00 — Lab: Hands-on Uncertainty Analysis and Calibration for Large Language Models