ISCA Fellows Program
In 2007, ISCA began its Fellows Program to recognize and honor outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication.
Fellows: Full list
By year: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Nomination and Selection Process
To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more with a minimum of ten years of experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member (see Nomination Form). Fellows may be recognized by their outstanding scientific and/or technical contributions and/or continued significant service to ISCA. The supporting case for the candidate's nomination should include up to 3 major contributions which have had impact on the speech community and/or society in general. A nomination should be supported by 3 references from senior scientists/technologists in the Speech Communication community, for instance ISCA Fellows and ISCA Board Members. Current ISCA Board members are not eligible for nomination.
Fellows are selected by a Fellow Selection Committee of nine members who each serve three-year terms. Members of the Committee will be chosen from ISCA Fellows by the ISCA Board. Fellow Selection Committee members will avoid nominating or writing references for Fellow candidates.
The total number of Fellows selected in any one year will not exceed one-third percent of the total ISCA membership in that year, calculated as the rolling average over the last three years, at the time of Interspeech.
New ISCA Fellows will be announced each year at INTERSPEECH.
Nominations should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by February 10 each year. You should receive an acknowledgement within a week after receipt of the nomination form and reference forms.Those who plan to nominate are strongly advised to send brief information on candidates (candidate's name and affiliation) to the above email address before January 10 with your name and contact email address.
- Nomination Form | Reference Form (updated 2022)
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| ISCA Fellows at INTERSPEECH 2019 | ISCA Fellows 2022 Class at INTERSPEECH 2022 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Sebastian Möller (ISCA President), Heiga Zen, Hema Murthy, Hideki Kawahara, Alex Waibel, John Hansen (past ISCA President). David House and Tara Sainath were unable to attend. |
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| ISCA Fellows 2018 Class at INTERSPEECH 2018 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, John Hansen (ISCA President), Richard Schwartz, Haizhou Li, Keikichi Hirose, Carol Espy-Wilson, Denis Burnham | ISCA Fellows 2019 Class at INTERSPEECH 2019 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, John Hansen (ISCA President), Christian Wellekens, Mark Gales, Jennifer Cole, Martine Adda-Decker, Yannis Stylianou, Valerie Hazan. (Douglas O'Shaughnessy was unable to attend). |
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ISCA Fellows 2016 Class at INTERSPEECH 2016 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Mary Harper, Tanja Schultz, Helen Meng, Steve Renals, Chiu-yu Tseng, Shri Narayanan, Haizhou Li (ISCA President), Kate Knill (ISCA Board Member) |
ISCA Fellows 2017 Class at INTERSPEECH 2017 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Haizhou Li (ISCA President), Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Michael Riley, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Alan W Black, Giuseppe Riccardi |
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| ISCA Fellows 2014 Class at INTERSPEECH 2014 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Tanja Schultz (ISCA President), Bayya Yegnanarayana, Jacqueline Vaissière, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Michael Picheny, Isabel Trancoso, Kate Knill (ISCA Board Member). | ISCA Fellows 2015 Class at INTERSPEECH 2015 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Tanja Schultz (ISCA President), Marc Swerts, David Nahamoo, Lori Lamel, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Dario Bertero (representing Pascale Fung). |
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| Some of ISCA Fellows and Isabel (former ISCA president) at ISCA assembly, INTERSPEECH 2011, Florence. Steve, Paul, Julia, Victor, Louis, Fred, Mari, Roberto, Wolfgang, Hermann, Elizabeth, Janet, Nelson, Philip, Li, and Adrian are not included in the photo. | ISCA Fellows 2013 Class at INTERSPEECH 2013 Opening Ceremony, from left to right, Jerome Bellegarda, Hervé Bourlard, Daniel Hirst, John Makhoul, Keiichi Tokuda (Andrea Stolcke was not included) together with Keikichi Hirose (ISCA Board Member) and Jean-Franscois Bonastre (ISCA President) |
ISCA Fellow Selection Committee:
2022/23
Keikichi Hirose (CHAIR)
Catherine Best
Satoshi Nakamura
Jennifer Cole
Martin Cooke
Karen Livescu
Mark Gales
Maxine Eskenazi
Hideki Kawahara
Previous members:
Alex Acero, Abeer Alwan, Jerome Bellegarda (Chair 2017/18), Alan Black, Anne Cutler, Li Deng (Chair 2015/16), Hiroya Fujisaki, Pascale Fung, Sadaoki Furui, Björn Granström, Julia Hirschberg, Daniel Hirst, Chin-Hui Lee, Lin-shan Lee (Chair 2012), Joseph Mariani, Helen Meng, Bruce Millar, Roger Moore, Shrikanth Narayanan, Hermann Ney, Michael Picheny, Louis Pols, Roberto Pieraccini, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Elizabeth Shriberg, Rich Stern, Marc Swerts, Keiichi Tokuda, Isabel Trancoso (Chair 2019/20), Chiu-Yu Tseng, Jacqueline Vaissière, Steve Young (Chair 2013/14)
Term ending in 2022
Val Hazan (Chair), David Nahamoo, Tanja Schultz
Term ending in 2023
Catherine Best, Jennifer Cole, Satoshi Nakamura
Term ending in 2024
Martin Cooke. Keikichi Hirose, Karen Livescu
ISCA Fellows since 2008:
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