Newsletter - March 2018

In this edition of "Getting to Know Your Fellow Researchers" we are getting to know Hynek Hermansky of Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing.  He is an IEEE and ISCA Fellow and an ISCA Medalist.  Check out the interview to find out how Hynek's career path might have been had he been a little more frivolous. 

We have a recap of ASRU 2017 from Gakuto Kurata.  Gakuto has provided us with a very useful distillation of the plenary speakers and highlighted some exciting poster sessions for those of us who weren't able to attend the workshop in Okinawa last year.   (If you are attending a conference or workshop and would like to write it up for the newsletter, don't hesitate to contact me.)

Speaking of the ASRU workshop, proposals for ASRU 2019 are being solicited right now.  So are proposals for ICASSP 2023!  If you've been thinking that it's almost time in your career to organize a workshop or conference, do it now!  What do you have to lose but sleep?

As ever, we'd like to draw your attention to our community's upcoming conferences and workshops and job postings.  

And a finally brief bit of boilerplate self-promotion:

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A belated welcome to 2018.  On behalf of all of us at the SLTC, wishing you a happy, healthy and productive rest of the year.

Andrew Rosenberg, Editor