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Speech and Language Processing

Technical Committee Members

Chair: Shinji Watanabe
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Email
Term Ends: 12/31/26

 

Past Chair: Yifan Gong
Microsoft Corp.
Redmond, WA, USA
Email
Term Ends: 12/31/25

 

Members

Member Area and Affiliation Picture
Arisoy Saraclar, Ebru
Term ends 2025		 Natural Language Processing
MEF University
saraclare@mef.edu.tr
web page
Borgstrom, Bengt Jonas
Term ends 2025

Speaker Recognition
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
jonas.borgstrom@ll.mit.edu

Busso, Carlos
Term ends 2027		 Speech Analysis
Carnegie Mellon University
busso@cmu.edu
web page
Chen, Xie
Term ends 2027		 Natural Language Processing
Shanghai Jiaotong University
chenxie95@sjtu.edu.cn
web page
Du, Jun
Term ends 2025
Speech Enhancement
University of Science and Technology of China
jundu@ustc.edu.cn
web page
Erzin, Engin
Term ends 2025		 Speech Analysis
Koc University
eerzin@ku.edu.tr
web page
Fukuda, Takashi
Term ends 2027		 Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modeling
IBM Japan
fukuda1@jp.ibm.com
web page
Garcia, Paola
Term ends 2026		 Speaker Recognition
Johns Hopkins University
Email: lgarci27@jhu.edu
Giacobello, Daniele
Term ends 2027		 Speech Enhancement
Apple Inc.
giacobello@gmail.com
web page
Gong, Yifan
Vice Chair
Term ends 2025

Microsoft
Yifan.Gong@ieee.org
web page

Habets, Emanuël
Term ends 2027		 Speech Enhancement
International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
emanuel.habets@audiolabs-erlangen.de
web page
Han, Kyu Jeong
Term ends 2025		 Speaker Recognition
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
kjhan@ieee.org
Hartmann, William
Term ends 2027		 Natural Language Processing
Raytheon BBN Technologies
hartmannw@gmail.com
web page
Higashinaka, Ryuichiro
Term ends 2027		 Dialog Systems
Nagoya University
higashinaka@i.nagoya-u.ac.jp
web page
Hu, Qiong
Term ends 2027		 Speech Synthesis
Google Inc.
sandrahuq@gmail.com
web page
Huang, Jing
Term ends 2025		 Natural Language Processing
Amazon Alexa AI
jinghuang.zhu@gmail.com
Ito, Nobutaka
Term ends 2026		 Speech Enhancement
University of Tokyo
nobutaka.ito@ieee.org
Kanda, Naoyuki
Term ends 2027		 Speech Recognition - Other
Meta
Naoyuki.kanda@gmail.com
Karanasou, Penny
Term ends 2025		 Speech Synthesis
University of Cambridge
pk407@cam.ac.uk
Keshet, Joseph
Term ends 2025		 Speech Analysis
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
jkeshet@technion.ac.il
Klabbers, Esther
Term ends 2025		 Speech Synthesis
ReadSpeaker
esther.klabbers@gmail.com
Lee, Hung-yi
Term ends 2026

Speech Recognition - Other
National Taiwan University
hungyilee@ntu.edu.tw

Li, Bo
Term ends 2026		 Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modeling

boboli@gmail.com
Li, Ming
Term ends 2025		 Speaker Recognition
Duke Kunshan University
ming.li369@duke.edu
Lin, Chenghua
Term ends 2026		 Natural Language Processing
The University of Manchester
chenghua.lin1@gmail.com
web page
Ling, Zhenhua
Term ends 2026		 Speech/Voice Synthesis/Conversion
University of Science and Technology of China
zhling@ustc.edu.cn
Livescu, Karen
Term ends 2027		 Speech Recognition - Other
Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago
klivescu@ttic.edu
web page
Mi, Haitao
Term ends 2025		 Natural Language Processing
Tencent America
haitaominlp@gmail.com
Narayanan, Arun
Term ends 2025
Speech Recognition - Other
Google, Inc
arunnt@google.com
web page
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O'Shaughnessy, Douglas
Term ends 2026
Speech Analysis
INRS, U. of Quebec
dougo@emt.inrs.ca
Ogawa, Atsunori
Term ends 2027		 Natural Language Processing
NTT Corporation
atsunori.ogawa@ntt.com
web page
Ou, Zhijian
Term ends 2025
Speech Recognition - Other
Tsinghua University
ozj@tsinghua.edu.cn
web page
Oyman, Sibel
Term ends 2027		 Natural Language Processing
Apple Inc.
soyman@apple.com
web page
Qian, Yanmin
Term ends 2027		 Speech Recognition - Other
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
yanminqian@gmail.com
web page
Sainath, Tara
Term ends 2025		 Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modeling
Google
tsainath@google.com
Sakti, Sakriani
Term ends 2026		 Dialog Systems
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
ssakti@is.naist.jp
web page
Saraclar, Murat
Term ends 2026		 Natural Language Processing
Bogazici University
muratsaraclar@ieee.org
Shi, Yangyang
Term ends 2026		 Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modeling
Meta
shiyang1983@gmail.com
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco
Term ends 2026		 Speech Production and Perception
Università degli Studi di Palermo (UNIPA)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
siniscalchi77.19@gmail.com
Sisman, Berrak
Term ends 2027		 Speech Synthesis
Johns Hopkins University
sisman@jhu.edu
web page
Skoglund, Jan
Term ends 2026

Speech Coding
Google
jks@google.com
web page

Takamichi, Shinnosuke
Term ends 2027		 Speech Synthesis/Generation
Keio University
shinnosuke_takamichi@keio.jp
web page
Tan, Zheng-Hua
Term ends 2026		 Speech Enhancement
Aalborg University, Denmark
zt@es.aau.dk
web page
Thomas, Samuel
Term ends 2026		 Speech Recognition - Other
sthomas@us.ibm.com
Tsao, Yu
Term ends 2026

Speech Enhancement
Academia Sinica
yu.tsao@citi.sinica.edu.tw
web page

Villalba, Jesus
Term ends 2026

Speaker Recognition
Johns Hopkins University
jesus.antonio.villalba@gmail.com
web page

Wang, Lei
Term ends 2026		 Speaker Recognition
Huawei International, Singapore
wang3stones@outlook.com
Wang, Yongqiang
Term ends 2026		 Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modeling
yongqiang.seagull@gmail.com
Watanabe, Shinji
Chair
Term ends 2026

Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modeling
Carnegie Mellon University
shinjiw@ieee.org

Wu, Zhizheng
Term ends 2026

Speech Synthesis
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen)
wuzhizheng@gmail.com
web page

Xu, Yong
Term ends 2025		 Speech Analysis
Tencent America
yong.xu.ustc@gmail.com
Yi, Jiangyan
Term ends 2027		 Speaker Recognition
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
yijy@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
web page
Yoshino, Koichiro
Term ends 2025		 Natural Language Processing
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
koichiro.yoshino@riken.jp
Zhang, Yu
Term ends 2025		 Speech Synthesis
Google
sjtuzy@gmail.com
Zhang, Shi-Xiong
Term ends 2026		 Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modeling
zhangshixiong@gmail.com
Yu, Dong

Advisory Member
Tencent AI Lab
dongyu@ieee.org

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