Over the past few months, ISCA has been seeking nominations and endorsements for this year’s ISCA Fellowship awards. The ISCA Fellows Selection Committee maintains a rigorous process of evaluating all nominations (more details are found on the ISCA webpage at: https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/honors/fellows). After extensive evaluations and reviews, the following six distinguished researchers will be elevated to the status of ISCA Fellow for 2022. Their citations as well as affiliations are highlighted below. Please join me in congratulating these well deserving colleagues for their research contributions to the field of speech communication and technology! All will be recognized at INTERSPEECH 2022 in Incheon, Korea, this fall.

• Prof. David HOUSE (Sweden) “For outstanding multidisciplinary work at the crossroads of speech science and technology.”

• Prof. Hideki KAWAHARA (Japan) “For contributions to speech signal processing and speech science by introducing flexible speech analysis, modification and synthesis systems.”  

• Prof. Hema MURTHY (India) “For contributions to signal processing for speech technology applications and for leadership in speech processing for Indian languages.”                         

• Dr. Tara SAINATH (USA) “For contributions to deep learning for automatic speech recognition.”

• Prof. Alex WAIBEL (USA) “For pioneering contributions in multilingual and multimodal spoken language processing and translation.”

 

• Dr. Heiga ZEN (Japan) “For pioneering contributions to model-based speech synthesis.”

As always, we welcome feedback and input from the ISCA community – if you have suggestions for our society or want to be involved, please let us know!

Phil Green (ISCA Fellows Board Member)

Sebastian Möller (ISCA President)