I am happy to announce that I defended my dissertation today — 6 months to the day after its submission! It was a great opportunity to celebrate the work I’ve done over the past few years with family, friends, and colleagues. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who has accompanied me on this journey! 🙏
I had the pleasure of organizing the FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference - Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction (SpoHuMa21) together with Sarah Warchhold (University of Freiburg), Daniel Duran (ZAS Berlin), and Eran Raveh (Hyro AI). The conference was supported by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) – special thanks to Kyra Vogt and Attilio Ferrarese!
SpoHuMa21 featured submitted talks by young researchers, invited talks by Michelle Cohn (University of California, Davis, USA), Friederike Eyssel (Bielefeld University, Germany), Roger K. Moore (University of Sheffield, UK), Catharine Oertel (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), and Karola Pitsch (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), as well as various interactive discussion sessions.
We had a great time discussing spoken human-machine interaction from many different angles! 🗣 🤖
The organizers of SpoHuMa 2021 in the FRIAS Gather space
Yesterday, the Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology (YFRSW) took place as a satellite event of Interspeech 2021. A total of 21 undergraduate and master’s students presented their projects in the field of speech science and technology. Thank you for your participation and the great poster presentations!
I would also like to highlight our doctoral student panel, consisting of Carol Figueroa (Furhat Robotics), Omnia Ibrahim (Saarland University), Mariana Julião (INESC-ID/IST/Lisbon University), and Joana Correia (Spotify), who answered our attendees’ questions with much dedication. Thank you so much for sharing your experience! 🙏
Doctoral Student Panel @ YFRSW 2021
In the context of STEP 2021 (Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics) organized by the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton/Canada, I had the pleasure to participate in the workshop on data analysis with the generalized additive model (GAM) held by Harald Baayen, Yu-Ying Chuang (both University of Tübingen), and Peter Hendrix (Tilburg University).
This was an excellent introduction to the topic, which fortunately even used examples from Phonetics. Terrific! 💯 Thank you very much!
Selfie during STEP 2021: in the lobby @ gatherTown
