Call for Nominations

Introduction

ISCA has started a new Distinguished Lecturers Program in 2006 to send Distinguished Lecturers to travel to different parts of the world to give lectures to help promote research activities on speech science and technologies. Two Distinguished Lecturers have been selected at the end of 2006, Professor Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and Professor Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, with 2-year terms of 2007-2008. Professor Marc Swerts has finished the first Distinguished Lecturer Tour to go to Latin America in June 2007, and the next by professor Chin-Hui Lee to go to South Asia will be realized in Nov 2007.

Nominations and Selection

A Distinguished Lecturers Committee has been organized. The chair of the Committee for 2006-2009 is Professor Sadaoki Furui. Nominations of candidates for 2008-2009 terms are called. Each nomination should include information (short biography, selected publications, website, etc. plus topics/titles of up to 3 possible lectures) of no more than 2 pages to be sent to the Committee Chair (furui@cs.titech.ac.jp). Only those who receive the highest votes by the Committee, exceeding a minimum threshold of 2/3, are selected. Nominations for this year should be received before the deadline of Nov 15 2007.

Commitments of the Lecturers

The candidates selected by the Committee will be contacted and asked for the commitment of making time available for Lecture Tours, including the possibility of traveling to some regions specially identified as under-represented in ISCA programs (China, India, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South and West Asia, Africa). Those who agree are announced as ISCA Distinguished Lecturers.

Distinguished Lecturers Tours

Distinguished Lecturers Tours are arranged by ISCA upon invitation only. The local hosts should be responsible for making and funding the local arrangements including accommodation and meals, and ISCA will pay travel costs. A Distinguished Lecturer Tour is realizable when at least three lectures are included, preferably in at least two different locations.

More Details

More details of this Program can be found at ISCA website (http://www.isca-speech.org/DistinguishedLec.html).