Hervé Bourlard is Director of the Idiap Research Institute, a not-for-profit research institute, affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) and University of Geneva, involved in speech and speaker recognition, computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal interfaces. H. Bourlard is also Professor at EPFL, Director of a National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) on “Interactive Multimodal Information Management” (IM2), and an External Fellow of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley (CA). His current interests mainly include statistical pattern classification, signal processing, multi-channel processing, artificial neural networks, and applied mathematics, with applications to spoken language processing, speech and speaker recognition, language modeling, and multimodal interaction.

H. Bourlard is the author/coauthor of over 200 reviewed papers (including one IEEE paper award) and book chapters, two books, and two edited books. He is a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions in the fields of statistical speech recognition and neural networks'” and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Intl. Computer Science Institute ( Berkeley , CA ). He is also a member of the Advisory Council of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association), ex-member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Networks Signal Processing, and an appointed expert for the European Commission (and member of ISTAG, Information Society Technology Advisory Group).

H. Bourlard is, or has been, a member of the program and/or scientific committee of numerous international conferences, including c o-Technical Chairman of the ICASSP’02, General Chairman of NNSP’02 and Eurospeech’03. He is also member of the Editorial Board of several journal, including “Speech Communication” (ex-Editor-in-Chief) and “Intl. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence”, and ex-Action Editor of “Neural Networks” (Pergamon). He was also the Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Biometric Signal Processing of the Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing (April 2004).

Idiap Research Institute, Director
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Professor
Centre du Parc
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Email: bourlard at idiap.ch