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Karen Livescu has been named a 2025 IEEE Fellow for contributions to multi-view and pre-trained speech representation learning. Congrats, Karen!

Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024. Congrats to Kanishka and his collaborator Kyle Mahowald at UT Austin!

Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2024. Congrats to Karen and collaborators William Chen, Wangyou Zhang, Yifan Peng, Xinjian Li, Jinchuan Tian, Jiatong Shi, Xuankai Chang, Soumi Maiti, and Shinji Watanabe at CMU!

Marcelo Beramendi Caballero, Jiamin (Jessica) Yang, and Tianyang (Sally) Xu join as new Ph.D. students. Welcome, Marcelo, Jessica, and Sally!

Lingyu Gao, Freda Shi, and Davis Yoshida have graduated. In addition, Freda’s thesis was designated a Thesis of Distinction by TTIC. Congrats, all!

Kanishka Misra and Zhewei Sun join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Kanishka and Zhewei!

Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024. Congrats to TTIC student Davis Yoshida and former TTIC faculty Kevin Gimpel and Kartik Goyal

Jiawei (Joe) Zhou, Research Asssistant Professor 2023-24, has joined Stony Brook University as an Assistant Professor. Congrats, Joe!

Best Student Paper Award at ASRU 2023. Congrats to TTIC students Chung-Ming Chien and Ju-Chieh Chou and U. Chicago Ph.D. student Mingjiamei Zhang

TTIC submission to the Second WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT), led by Marcelo Sandoval-Castañeda, is the top system (see the results here). Congrats, Marcelo and all!

Ph.D. student Chung-Ming Chien wins Taiwan Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA). Congrats, Chung-Ming!

Test of Time Runner-Up Award at ICML 2023. Congrats to Karen Livescu, RAP alumnus Raman Arora, and collaborators Galen Andrew and Jeff Bilmes!

Shane Settle, Bowen Shi, and Qingming Tang have graduated. In addition, Bowen’s thesis was designated a Thesis of Distinction by TTIC. Congrats, all!

Jungo Kasai and Jiawei (Joe) Zhou join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Jungo and Joe!

Kartik Goyal, Research Assistant Professor 2021-2023, is now Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Congrats, Kartik!

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