ISCA-SAC: 7th Students Meet Experts (October 28, 2020)
28 Oct 2020At the 7th Students Meet Experts event organized online by ISCA-SAC at Interspeech 2020 in Shanghai/China, our panelists Sunayana Sitaram (Microsoft Research), Jon Barker (University of Sheffield), Tara Sainath (Google), and Björn Schuller (University of Augsburg; Imperial College London; audEERING) shared their insights on questions from the student audience. Thank you for joining the event and supporting ISCA-SAC’s activities!
Some take-aways to remember:
Learn to think independently and critically during your PhD.
Keep in touch with your mentors!
Do not compare your thesis with the top doctoral theses in your field and try at all costs to achieve the same level.
A good way to start the career? Organize a challenge at Interspeech!
Your career is not a sprint, it's a marathon.
Sometimes the much-praised freedom in the academic world seems a bit of a fantasy.
In academia it is easier to start collaborations - more restrictions in industry.
Don't forget to invest time in writing journal papers.
In the future, we will have to take ethical aspects such as data protection, fairness and accountability more into account in our research work.