2020 SLTC New Fellows Announcement

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Prof. Sharon Gannot

Ramat-Gan, Israel

for contributions to acoustical modelling and statistical learning in speech enhancement

Dr. Jingdong Chen

Xi'an, China

for contributions to microphone array processing and speech enhancement in noisy and reverberant

environments

Yifan Gong

Redmond, WA, USA

for leadership in creating cloud speech recognition services in industry

Lori Lamel

Orsay, France

for contributions to automatic speech recognition

Prof. Yang Liu

Seattle, WA, USA

for contributions to speech understanding and language learning technology

Dr. Tomohiro Nakatani

Kyoto, Japan

for contributions to far-field signal processing for speech enhancement and recognition

Dr. Martin Reddy

San Francisco, CA, USA

for contributions to conversational artificial intelligence

Ruhi Sarikaya

Seattle, WA, USA

for leadership in spoken-language-processing and conversational understanding systems

Dr. Tuomas Virtanen

Tampere, Finland

for contributions to sound event detection and source separation

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