LTI's Watanabe Named ISCA Fellow

Shinji Watanabe, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has been named a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) "for wide-ranging, fundamental contributions to research and leadership in speech recognition technologies." Founded in 2007, the ISCA Fellows Program recognizes and honors outstanding ISCA members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. Fellows are nominated by association members and selected by a committee of their peers. Since its inception, the program has recognized nearly 100 fellows from countries around the globe. Watanabe, who is part of CMU's Language Technologies Institute, studies automatic speech recognition, speech enhancement, spoken language understanding, and machine learning for speech and language processing.