Tanja Schultz in 2012

Tanja Schultz is a German computer scientist specializing in speech processing. She is professor of computer science at the University of Bremen and the former president of the International Speech Communication Association.[1]

Education and career

Schultz was a student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where she earned a diploma in 1995 and a doctorate in 2000.[1] Her dissertation, Multilingual Speech Recognition, was jointly supervised by Alex Waibel and Dirk Van Compernolle.[2] She was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University from 2000 to 2007 and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2015 before moving to the University of Bremen in 2015.[1]

Recognition

In 2002, Schultz was part of a group of eight researchers who won the Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence for their work on automatic speech translation.[3]

Schultz was named a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2016 "for contributions to multilingual speech recognition and biosignal processing for human-machine interaction".[4] She is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tanja Schultz". University of Bremen. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  2. ↑ Tanja Schultz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ "The Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence – Previous Winners". Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  4. ↑ "Fellows 2016". International Speech Communication Association. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "European Academy of Sciences and Arts Database Search". European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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