ISCA Postdoc & Early Career Researcher Advisory Committee (PECRAC) was created in 2021 and had organised several events since :

• 1st Early Career Researcher Annual Gathering @ Interspeech 2021
  
• 2nd Early Career Researcher Annual Gathering @ Interspeech 2022
  
• Connecting Early Career Researchers @ Interspeech 2022
• Casual event N°1 : Permanent job applications in academia (December 2022)
• Casual event N°2 : Job applications in industry (April 11, 2023)
• 3rd Early Career Researcher Annual Gathering @ Interspeech 2023
  
• 4th Early Career Researcher Annual Gathering @ Interspeech 2024

ISCA-PECRAC aims to give guidance and accompany post-doc and early career researchers during their early career lives.

More specifically, the aim of the PECRAC committee is

• to establish links and collaboration between postdocs and early career researchers in speech communication in different institutions and companies from all over the world;
  
• to keep postdoc & early career researchers posted with current postdoc & tenure-track job offers;
  
• to provide mentoring;
  
• to give feedback on their major issues in research;
  
• to create an environment where postdoc & early career researchers can socialize with their peers.

Registration link :

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjZBUeHO0swLs1pGaFoeMg5x85jx6njFUv6_VKkItu_DL2lg/viewform

ISCA-PECREC board:

General coordinator:   Sishir Kalita (Principle Data Scientist, Armsoftech.air, India)

Event Coordinator:   Jinyao Wu (Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

                                 Zhengjun Yue (Assistant Professor, TU Delft, Netherlands)

Media Coordinator:   Lin Zhang (Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Technical Coordinator:   Kun Zhou (Research Scientist, Alibaba Group, Singapore)

Volunteer:   Xiaoliang Wu (Postdoc, University of Southampton, UK)

                   Amir Ivry (Postdoc, CMU, USA)

                   Yejin Jeon (Postdoc, McGill, Canada)

Advisor: 

Yaru Wu (Associate Professor, University of Caen Normandy, France) 

Berrak Sisman (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Univeristy, USA)

Shammur Absar Chowdhury (Research Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)

Contact : isca.pecrac@gmail.com