IEEE SLTC 2020 Elections Results

The Member Election Subcommittee of the SLTC is announcing the results of the elections for members filling the 2020-2022 term. In this year's election, we had 17 openings in 9 areas that took into account retirements and recent ICASSP trends. In addition, on a biannual cycle, we needed to elect a new Vice Chair (who automatically takes over as Chair upon conclusion of the current Chair's term). We received nominations from a total of 48 candidates, as well as from 2 candidates for the Vice Chair position.

Without further ado, the newly (re)elected members are:

Vice Chair - Dong Yu

Dialog Systems - Helen Hastie
Natural Language Processing - Mahnoosh Mebrahani
Speaker Recognition - Ming Li, Fred Richardson
Speech Analysis - Heidi Christensen, Engin Erzin, Panayiotis Georgiou
Speech Enhancement - Jun Du
Speech Production and Perception - Abeer Alwan
Speech Recognition Acoustic Modeling - Jasha Droppo, Arun Narayanan, Michael Picheny
Speech Recognition Other - Ebru Arisoy, Takaaki Hori, Zhijian Ou
Speech Synthesis - Antonio Bonafonte, Esther Klabbers

Congratulations to all (15 new members, as well as 2 re-elected members using alphabetic order in each category), and many thanks to all those who were willing to serve on the Committee and run in the election. We look forward to working with all of you.

The Member Election Subcommittee (Sadao Hiroya, Koichi Shinoda, Andreas Stolcke, Takehiro Moriya, Olivier Siohan)