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Professor Hervé Bourlard is Director of the IDIAP Research Institute, a not-for-profit research institute affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva. He is also Professor at EPFL and Director of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2). He is the author of more than 200 peer reviewed publications,
and manages several large collaborative (EU) projects. His current interests include statistical pattern classification, signal processing, multi-channel processing, artificial neural networks and applied mathematics, with applications to speech and speaker recognition, language modeling, and multimodal interaction.
Work Experience
- Member of the Board of Directors, IdeArk SA, 2006-present
- Director, IDIAP, 1996-present
- Director, National Center of Competence in Research, Switzerland, 2002-present
- Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, 1997-present
- Project Leader, Polytechnic University of Mons, Belgium, 1995-1996
- R&D Manager, L&H Speech Products, 1990-1994
- Research Scientist, Philips Research laboratory of Brussels, Belgium, 1982-1990
- Invited Scientist, International Computer Science Institute, 1988-1989
Education
- PhD, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium, 1992
- Engineers Degree, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium, 1982
Awards, Honors and Significant Achievements
- Over 200 publications, including one IEEE awarded paper
- Fellow, IEEE
- Member, Information Society Technology Advisory Group (ISTAG), European Commission
- Member, Advisory Council of International Speech Communication Association
- Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Networks Signal Processing
- Appointed Expert for the European Commission
- Former Editor-in-Chief, Speech Communication
- Action Editor, Neural Networks
- Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
- IEEE Best Paper Award, Signal Processing Magazine, 1997
- Member of the ESPRC, Peer Review College, UK
Professor Bourlard's web page at IDIAP
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