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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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