Organizing committee
- Neville Ryant, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
- Kenneth Church, Baidu Research
- Christoper Cieri, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
- Jun Du – University of Science and Technology of China
- Sriram Ganapathy – Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science
- Mark Liberman, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
Invited speakers
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Dr. Leibny Paola Garcia Perera (PhD 2014, University of Zaragoza, Spain) joined Johns Hopkins University after extensive research experience in academia and industry, including highly regarded laboratories at Agnitio and Nuance Communications. She lead a team of 20+ researchers from four of the best laboratories worldwide in far-field speech diarization and speaker recognition, under the auspices of the JHU summer workshop 2019 in Montreal , Canada. She was also a researcher at Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico for 10 years. She was a Marie Curie researcher for the Iris project during 2015, exploring assistive technology for children with autism in Zaragoza, Spain. She was a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology (2009) and Carnegie Mellon (2011). Recently, she has been working on children’s speech; including child speech recognition and diarization in day-long recordings. She is also part of the JHU Chime5, Chime6, SRE18 and SRE19 teams. Her interests include diarization, speech recognition, speaker recognition, machine learning, and language processing.
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Dr. Mireia Diez Sánchez is a researcher at the speech@FIT group at Brno University of Technology. Mireia received her Electronic Engineering degree in 2009, and her PhD in 2015, both from the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Her thesis focused on the study of features for Language and Speaker recognition. In 2016 she obtained an individual Marie Curie fellowship for the SpeakerDICE project dealing with diarization tasks. She has attended several international workshops dedicated to the field of speaker recognition and diarization: Bosaris (Brno, 2012), ASRWIS (South Africa, 2016) and SCALE (Baltimore, 2017). Recently, she has successfully coordinated the BUT team for the DIHARD challenges. Her research interests are mainly speaker diarization, speaker and language recognition and Bayesian inference.