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Nicholas Evans is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University. He is an ARC Laureate Fellow and serves as Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL), reflecting his leadership in integrating typology, descriptive linguistics, and cognitive science. His work spans linguistic diversity, endangered languages, and the interplay between language and culture. His research focuses on Australian and Papuan languages, with extensive fieldwork in remote communities. Key interests include linguistic typology, historical and contact linguistics, semantics, and the cognitive underpinnings of grammar. He has published foundational grammars and dictionaries of Kayardild, Bininj Gun-wok, and Dalabon, contributing significantly to the documentation of endangered languages. His recent publications reveal a strong trend in cross-linguistic studies of social cognition (SCOPIC), syntactic typology, and phylogenetic modeling of the Yam languages. These works integrate linguistic, cognitive, and genetic data, highlighting interdisciplinary approaches to understanding language evolution and human diversity. ARC Laureate Fellow Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) Evans supervises research students and leads major projects such as 'The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity' and CoEDL, which involve extensive collaboration across institutions and disciplines. His grants include modeling Pacific creoles and phonemic analysis of Tok Pisin. He is also involved in digital archiving initiatives like PARADISEC and the Language Data Commons of Australia, ensuring long-term preservation of linguistic data. He leads and contributes to research teams focused on Southern New Guinea languages, paradigm syncretisms (PARABANK), and cultural heritage preservation. His work emphasizes reciprocal engagement with speech communities and training the next generation of language documenters.

• Linguistic Typology
• Historical Linguistics
• Contact Linguistics
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Mari Ostendorf serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering within the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, where she conducts research at the intersection of speech technology and computational linguistics with emphasis on spontaneous speech phenomena. Her educational foundation includes: PhD in an unspecified field, Stanford University (1985) Her research program systematically investigates: Speech Processing: Specializing in spontaneous speech characteristics and prosodic modeling Natural Language Processing: Focusing on conversational speech parsing and stance analysis Computational Linguistics: Integrating linguistic theory with machine learning approaches Prosody: Analyzing idiosyncratic speech patterns for language processing applications Stance Recognition: Developing computational methods for identifying speaker attitude and commitment Her work manifests in significant projects including the LiCORICE Project (2009-2011) as Principal Investigator and the ATAROS Project as Co-Principal Investigator, both advancing automatic spoken language processing through detailed modeling of speech prosody and stance phenomena. Analysis of her publication record reveals a consistent trajectory toward interdisciplinary integration of linguistic theory and machine learning for spoken language understanding, with particular emphasis on non-lexical cues and discourse markers in conversational contexts that bridge computational and cognitive approaches to language processing. No scientific awards were mentioned in the provided documentation. Her advising record includes PhD candidates Jeremy Kahn (2010 dissertation on conversational speech parsing) and Esther Le Grézause (2017 dissertation on stance expression). Her grant portfolio features the LiCORICE Project (2009-2011, PI with Emily M. Bender and Mark Zachry) and the ATAROS Project (Co-PI with Richard Wright and Gina Levow), demonstrating sustained research funding in speech technology. Her research operates within an interdisciplinary framework connecting computer science and linguistics, evidenced by collaborations spanning departments and contributions to dissertation defenses in the Linguistics program at the University of Washington.

• Speech Processing
• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics
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Prof. Dr. Sakibe Nalan BÜYÜKKANTARCIOĞLU is a Professor at Çankaya University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English). She previously served as Professor (2007–2019), Associate Professor (2000–2007), and Assistant Professor (1997–2000) at Hacettepe University, Department of English Linguistics. PhD in English Linguistics (Hacettepe University, 1991) MA in English Language Teaching (Middle East Technical University, 1985) BA in English Teaching (Istanbul University, 1978) Her research spans Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation Studies , with a focus on figurative language, interjections, political discourse, and endangered languages. She received the European Language Award (2011) and has supervised numerous PhD and MA theses, including work on Turkish idioms, gender representation, and language awareness. A prolific editor and conference participant, she has contributed to interdisciplinary projects and publications on Turkish sociolinguistics.

• Linguistics
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Discourse Analysis
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Mark Steedman is a Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he conducts research in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Cognitive and Social Science, and Natural Language and Speech Processing. He is affiliated with the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC), the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), and the Human Communications Research Center (HCRC). He also holds an adjunct professorship in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) , computational linguistics , prosody and intonation , temporal semantics , gesture in communication , and computational music analysis . He has authored foundational books including Surface Structure and Interpretation , The Syntactic Process , and Taking Scope . The recent publications reflect a strong trend toward integrating formal grammatical frameworks like CCG with modern neural and distributional models, particularly in semantic parsing, entailment reasoning, and cognitive modeling. His work bridges symbolic and statistical approaches in NLP, often focusing on robust, wide-coverage parsing and semantic interpretation. Best Paper Award at AACL/IJCNLP 2023 for 'Smoothing Entailment Graphs with Language Models' Best Paper Award at ACL 2023 for 'Extrinsic Evaluation of Machine Translation Metrics' Influential Paper Award 2017 from IFAAMAS for 'Animated Conversation' Mark Steedman has supervised numerous PhD students and collaborated widely across institutions. He leads research in formal grammar applications to cognitive modeling, dialogue, and multimodal communication. His lab contributes to CCG software and semantic parsing tools, and he continues to be actively involved in advancing the integration of symbolic and neural AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Cognitive Science
• Natural Language Processing
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Professor Bernd Möbius is a leading academic in Phonetics and Phonology at the Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland University. His research bridges phonetic theory with speech technology applications, focusing on text-to-speech systems, prosody modeling, and computational simulations of speech processes. Current research projects: DFG SFB 1102, C1: Information density and phonetic structure predictability DFG SFB 1102, C4: Slavic intercomprehension and surprisal theory (INCOMSLAV) Research Themes: Key areas include text-to-speech synthesis, speech prosody analysis, experimental methods in speech production/perception, information density in phonetics, and cross-linguistic studies of Slavic-Germanic languages. Scientific Contributions: Recent work explores Parkinson-induced dysarthria detection, breath noise acoustics, surprisal-driven speech behaviors, multilingual BERT models for idiomaticity, and perceptual consequences of acoustic adjustments.

• Speech Technology
• Phonetics
• Phonology
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Catherine Lai is a Reader (~Associate Professor) in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh, with strong affiliations to the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) and the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) in the School of Informatics. She is based in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences and is actively involved in research, teaching, and academic service. Department: Department of Linguistics and English Language School: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences Research Institutes: Centre for Speech Technology Research, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation Email: C.Lai@ed.ac.uk Her research centers on the role of prosody—non-lexical aspects of speech—in spoken communication. She investigates how prosody contributes to discourse structure, information structure, and affect in dialogue, using interdisciplinary methods from linguistics and machine learning. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics and practical speech technology, aiming to improve spoken language understanding and synthesis systems. She is particularly interested in how prosody shapes listener expectations and how affect and topic are expressed and perceived in conversation. Her recent publications reflect a strong focus on self-supervised learning in speech models, emotion recognition, ASR error correction using large language models, cognitive state classification, and ethical considerations in language technology. She explores topics such as the uncanny valley in synthetic speech, gender expression through voice, and community-centered development of language technologies. Prize from Scopus Profile Catherine Lai has supervised several PhD students, including Leimin Tian and Yuanchao Li, and has been involved in significant research projects, such as a Toyota-funded initiative on spoken dialogue for robot companions. She has secured multiple grants and leads a research agenda that integrates theoretical inquiry with real-world applications in assistive technologies and social science. Her academic service includes organizing major conferences like Interspeech and UK and Ireland Speech. She is a key member of research teams at CSTR and ILCC, collaborating across disciplines to advance the understanding of spoken communication and the development of robust, ethical speech technologies.

• Speech and Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics
• Prosody
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Elena Maria Baralis is a Full Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Science (DAUIN) at the Polytechnic University of Turin. She serves as Pro-Rector, member of the Board of Directors (without voting rights), member of the Academic Senate (without voting rights), and coordinator of the University's Permanent Observatory for Monitoring the Academic Sector. She chairs the Control and Computer Engineering Department and previously chaired the Computer Engineering School from October 2012 to October 2018. Her research interests focus on database systems and data mining, specifically explainable AI, bias detection in data analytics, and machine learning algorithms for big data. Her work spans various application domains including predictive maintenance, Industry 4.0, and healthcare. Recent publications demonstrate her expertise in speech processing, bias mitigation, and innovative neural network architectures like Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks. Her research output shows a clear trend toward addressing fairness and explainability in AI systems while exploring novel approaches to speech and language understanding. Professor Baralis has received significant recognition including becoming a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Turin in 2017. She has served as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2016-2019) and Knowledge and Information Systems (2014-present). She actively mentors doctoral students including Claudio Savelli (researching Machine Unlearning), Eleonora Poeta, Giuseppe Gallipoli, Alkis Koudounas, and others. Her research is supported by numerous projects including AI4CTI (Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Threat Intelligence, 2025-2028), Smart manufacturing driven by Machine Learning in Industry 4.0 (2019-2020), and I-REACT (2016-2019).

• Data Mining
• Database Systems
• Explainable AI
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Ben Eischens is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. His work focuses on the intersection of phonology and phonetics, particularly in San Martín Peras Mixtec, an Otomanguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico and diaspora communities. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz (2022) and collaborates extensively with Indigenous communities on language documentation and description. His research explores tone systems, laryngeal features, speech rate effects, and negative nominal structures, emphasizing empirical fieldwork and community partnerships. Recent work includes studies on vowel reduction, polar question formation, and the phonetic grounding of phonological theories. Eischens has presented at major conferences such as the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), and workshops on Languages of the Americas. His publications appear in journals like the International Journal of American Linguistics and Phonological Data & Analysis. He teaches courses in linguistic theory and field methods at UCLA, maintaining active research partnerships with San Martín Peras Mixtec community members. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with applied documentation, prioritizing Indigenous language revitalization efforts.

• Phonology
• Phonetics
• Language Documentation
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Mark Gales is Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and an Official Fellow at Emmanuel College. He is currently on sabbatical leave for the 2024/25 academic year. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a consultant at Roke Manor Research Ltd, developing radar systems, before transitioning to speech and language processing. PhD in 'Model-Based Techniques for Robust Speech Recognition' (University of Cambridge, 1995) BA in Electrical and Information Sciences (University of Cambridge, 1988) His research focuses on speech and language processing , particularly in automated language assessment and low-resource speech technology . He leads the Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA) Institute , which collaborates with Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUP&A) to develop commercial tools like Linguaskill and Speak & Improve . These platforms provide automated spoken/written assessment for millions of users globally. Recent publications highlight his work in LLM-driven speech processing , including adversarial attacks on foundation models, end-to-end spoken error correction, and uncertainty estimation frameworks. His team's research spans multilingual capabilities, with deployments in languages ranging from Dholuo to Tok Pisin . Awards : IEEE Fellow, ISCA Fellow Leadership : Fellows' Steward at Emmanuel College Mark has contributed extensively to Hidden Markov Model (HMM) applications in speech recognition, which underpinned early automatic speech systems. His work now bridges LLM-based language assessment with cross-lingual transfer learning and robustness testing for real-world deployments.

• Speech Processing
• Language Assessment
• Natural Language Processing
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Andrés Cuervo-Rubio is a Part-time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design, The New School. They are an interdisciplinary artist, programmer, and HCI researcher based in Brooklyn. As a co-founder of Folk Computer, a research consultancy focused on tangible computing hardware/software and programming languages, they explore accessible interfaces and paper-based interaction systems. They advise the W3C Immersive Web Working Group (WebAR/VR/XR APIs) and have spoken at global JavaScript conferences since 2017. Education: BA in Computer Science, Oberlin College (2017) BA in Creative Writing, Oberlin College (2017) Research Interests: Focuses on material-based interaction design, bridging physical/digital systems through accessible technologies. Current work emphasizes tangible computing interfaces and inclusive design practices. Active in developing educational frameworks for dynamic content creation in design curricula. Teaching: Recently taught Core 1: Interaction (PUCD 2035) and Core 2: Interaction Studio (PUCD 2125). Upcoming courses include CD Foundations: Interaction (PSAM 1028) in Fall 2025 and CD Studio: Dynamic Content (PSAM 2090) in Spring 2026. Professional Engagement: Serves as technical advisor for immersive web standards and collaborates with industry on accessible XR solutions. Co-leads workshops on physical computing pedagogy.

• Tangible computing
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Accessible interfaces
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James Glass is a Senior Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and heads the Spoken Language Systems Group within MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His research spans automatic speech recognition, multimodal learning, and spoken language understanding, with applications in healthcare and video analysis. Education: SM and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT His work focuses on paralinguistic speech analysis, health markers in speech, and the intersection of speech and natural language processing. Recent trends emphasize audio-visual alignment, recursive reasoning, and AI applications in cognitive disorder diagnosis. Scientific awards include IEEE Fellow, ISCA Fellow, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. His group explores unsupervised learning, speaker verification, and social text analysis. James leads the Spoken Language Systems Group at CSAIL, collaborating with institutions like IBM and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His research integrates vision-language models, neural audio codecs, and self-supervised frameworks.

• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Speech Recognition
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William S. Horton (Sid) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University , where he has taught since 2005 and directed the Cognition and Communication Lab (Cresap 108). Starting in September 2025, he will serve as Chair of the Department of Linguistics . His research focuses on socio-cognitive mechanisms in language use, particularly discourse pragmatics , perspective-taking , and non-literal language processing . Education: B.S. in Psychology/German from Duke University (1991), M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from University of Chicago (1994/1999) Previous roles: Postdoctoral research at SUNY-Stony Brook, Cognitive Aging at Georgia Tech Research trends from his 20+ years of publications include common ground , memory processes , figurative language , and age-related communication changes . His work increasingly incorporates computational text analysis and real-time digital communication studies. Awards : Fellow, Society for Text and Discourse Students : Supervised Ph.D. theses on conversational alignment, common ground activation, and digital communication. Undergraduate honors projects explore inhibitory deficits, speech internalization, and perspective-taking in bilingualism. Cognition and Communication Lab investigates language processing in spoken/written contexts using experimental methods and computational models.

• Psycholinguistics
• Discourse Pragmatics
• Perspective-Taking
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David Yarowsky is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He leads the Low-Resource Languages Lab and is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing. Harvard University - Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science (1987) University of Pennsylvania - Master of Science in Engineering (1993) and PhD in Computer and Information Science (1996) Research Interests : Natural Language Processing, particularly focusing on word sense disambiguation, minimally supervised induction algorithms, multilingual NLP, and machine translation for low-resource languages. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications in information retrieval, spoken language systems, and very large text databases. Article Trends : His publications emphasize cross-lingual transfer learning, universal morphology, and low-resource language technologies. Key themes include morphological analysis, computational etymology, and adversarial speech recognition. Scientific Awards : ACL Fellow (2013-present) Professional Service : Served as Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Secretary-Treasurer of SIGDAT, and chair/co-chair of major conferences including EMNLP 2013, IJCNLP 2011, and ACL 2014. Labs & Teams : Director of the Low-Resource Languages Lab at JHU and active member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing.

• Natural Language Processing
• Spoken Language Systems
• Machine Translation
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Professor Catherine Allerton is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She specializes in the materialities and mobilities of everyday life, with a focus on place, kinship, childhood, migration, and temporalities in island Southeast Asia. Her fieldwork spans a two-placed village in Flores, Indonesia, and Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia. Her research emphasizes interdisciplinary ethnographic methods, particularly involving child participants to challenge adult-centric approaches. She launched the 'Childhood in the Migrant City' exhibition using child-taken photographs from her ESRC-sponsored research. Current projects include exploring discordant temporalities between migration systems and childhood development, as well as completing a book manuscript on moral economies of belonging. Key research interests include the social and political dimensions of landscapes, the anthropology of children, and the impacts of legal status on marginalized youth. She teaches an LSE course on 'Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography' and actively supervises PhD students focusing on childhood, migration, citizenship, and Southeast Asian studies. Her work addresses exclusionary practices tied to race, religion, and legal frameworks in Malaysia and Indonesia. Languages spoken include Bahasa Manggarai, English, Indonesian, and Malay. No part-time status is mentioned, indicating full-time faculty commitment.

• Childhood and Youth Studies
• Migration Studies
• Kinship and Gender
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Maisha T. Winn serves as the Excellence in Learning Graduate School of Education Professor at Stanford University and is Faculty Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's Equity in Learning Initiative. She leads the Futuring for Equity Lab as Principal Investigator and holds significant leadership positions including President-Elect of the American Educational Research Association and membership in the National Academy of Education. Dr. Winn's research examines how non-dominant youth and communities develop literate trajectories across historical and contemporary settings. As an ethnographer by training, she investigates how communities depicted as under-resourced create their own educational practices, processes, and institutions. Her scholarship bridges historical analysis with contemporary educational practice to build more just, collaborative, and equitable futures in education. Her work spans restorative justice in education, Black literacy studies, and transformative justice approaches, with particular attention to the school-to-prison pipeline, independent Black institutions, and futures-oriented educational frameworks. Dr. Winn analyzes how historical educational models can inform contemporary practices that center community knowledge and cultural identity. Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at CASBS (2022-23) American Educational Research Association Fellow Member of the National Academy of Education Dr. Winn advises doctoral students including Christina Hewko and Misbah Naseer, and leads research initiatives focused on educational equity. Her Futuring for Equity Lab develops frameworks for understanding how marginalized communities have historically created educational spaces that affirm their identities and knowledge systems, with direct implications for contemporary educational practice and policy. Her research team collaborates with community organizations and schools to translate scholarly insights into practical applications that promote educational justice, particularly in areas of school discipline reform and literacy education for marginalized youth.

• Restorative Justice in Education
• Black Education and Literacy Studies
• Social Justice and Equity in Education
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