Keynote Speakers
We are proud to welcome the following keynote speakers to the 44th TABU Dag in June 2024:
- Emily Hofstetter (Linköping University)
- Andrea Ravignani (Sapienza University of Rome)
- Odette Scharenborg (Delft University)
- Martina Wiltschko (Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona)
You can read more about each speaker below:
Emily Hofstetter
Linköping University
Andrea Ravignani
Sapienza University of Rome
Andrea Ravignani is a Professor at the Department of Human Neurosciences at La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He received his PhD in Biology from the University of Vienna, Austria in 2014. Following his doctoral work, he has been affiliated with several research institutions across Europe including the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Marine Science Center Rostock, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Andrea performs research on the cognitive, biological, and evolutionary connections between human music, speech, and language. To understand why humans and other species have musical and linguistic capacities, he takes a multidisciplinarity approach. He combines non-invasive animal research with human experiments, neurobiological evidence, quantitative modelling of evolutionary dynamics, and agent-based simulations. Currently, he is studying the evolution of rhythm and vocal learning, funded by an ERC Starting Grant, an HFSP Grant, and a Sapienza PI grant.
Odette Scharenborg
Delft University
Odette Scharenborg is an associate professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on human speech-processing inspired automatic speech processing with the aim to develop inclusive speech technology, i.e., speech technology that works for everyone irrespective of how they speak or the language they speak. Odette has been a Board member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) since 2017. From 2021-2023 she served as Vice-President, and currently as President. From 2018-2022, she was a member of the IEEE SPS Speech and Language Processing Technical, and from 2019-2023, a (Senior) Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters. She will be the General Chair of Interspeech Rotterdam, 2025
Read more at: https://odettescharenborg.wordpress.com
Martina Wiltschko
Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
Martina Wiltschko is an ICREA research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She is a theoretical linguist, focussing on syntax and its interfaces. She obtained her doctorate in 1995 at the University of Vienna, spent much of her career at the University of British Columbia until 2019 when she assumed her current position. During her tenure at UBC, she focussed mainly on language variation and fieldwork (culminating in her 2014 Cambridge University monograph on the universal structure of categories). She then developed an interest in the nature of language in interaction culminating in her 2021 Cambridge University monograph on the grammar of interactional language. She has recently started a project on the nature of human machine interaction, focussing on the role of interactional language.