Welcome to the Summer 2021 Edition of the Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (SLTC) Newsletter.
So far 2021 has been a recovery year, although slow, routines are turning back to normal. We have collected several updates for the summer edition covering SLTC election nominations, ongoing SPS award nominations, SPS challenge program, and upcoming conferences & workshops.
==SLTC Member Nominations==
Satoshi Nakamura received his B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in informatics from Kyoto University in 1992. He was the Department Head and Director of ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan in the period of 2000-2008.
I received my Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA. Currently I am an Associate Professor and Associate Head of Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). I have been an active researcher in the field of Image Processing and Computer Vision. My research has resulted in 14 U.S. patents granted with several pending. Two of my inventions have been licensed to companies.
2 x Professor / Reader of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Department of Computer Science
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/037121
Lecture Date: September 28, 2021
Chapter: Oregon
Chapter Chair: Jinsub Kim
Topic: Data Fusion Through Matrix and Tensor Decompositions:
Overview of Solutions, Challenges, and Prospects
This webinar will demonstrate how deep learning can solve difficult communication problems that prior approaches often fail with two case studies. The first half will discuss a novel iterative BP-CNN architecture for channel decoding under correlated noise. This architecture concatenates a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) with a standard belief-propagation (BP) decoder.
The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is honored to announce the elevation of 72 of its members to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. These members have demonstrated outstanding professional performance, exhibited professional maturity through long-term experience, and established themselves as leaders in their respective IEEE-designated fields of interest.