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Professional Activities and Awards (selected)

  • Senior Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), since April 2009.
  • From 2002 to 2007: Member of the European Information Society Technology Advisory Group (ISTAG).
  • Recipient of a few prestigious entrepreneurship awards.
  • Fellow of the IEEE (“For contributions to the fields of statistical speech recognition and neural networks”), since January 2000.
  • Fellow of the EPSRC College , EPSRC , UK
  • Expert for the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  • “One of the 20 Scientists Who Make Switzerland ”: In the Issue No. 15, dated September 9, 2009 , the Bilan magazine, one of the leading Swiss economic journals, nominated Hervé Bourlard as one of the 20 scientific research leaders "who make Switzerland ".
  • March 2005: Belgian “Christoffel Plantin” Award, annually granted to a “Belgian citizen, living abroad and whose cultural, artistic or scientific activities contribute to ‘Belgian prestige’ in foreign countries”.
  • December 2004: Nominated “Entrepreneur of the Year” for Valais/Switzerland by the newspapers “Le Nouvelliste” and the “Walliser Bote”, as well as by the “Chambre Valaisanne de Commerce et de l’Industrie”.
  • 2002: Nominee of the Ernst and Young entrepreneurship award
  • International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley: Member of the ICSI Board of Trustees (since January 2002); ICSI External Fellow since 1991; ICSI invited guest scientist (1988-1989).
  • Member of the European Information Society Technology Advisory Group (ISTAG, http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/istag.htm): from 2003 to 2007.
  • Fellow of the ESPRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Peer Review College , UK : since January 2003.
  • Editor-in-chief of “Speech Communication” (international journal about speech processing), Elsevier, North-Holland (from 1997 to 2001); now Associate Editor.
  • Associate Editor of the Intl. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific (since 1998).
  • Editor of “Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces” (Springer)
  • Action Editor of “Neural Networks” (Pergamon), the official journal of the international Neural Network Society (from 1998 to 2002)
  • Editor of the “Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces”, Springer and OpenInterface Association.
  • Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Network Signal Processing (from 1998 to 2002)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Award for best Signal Processing Magazine paper (published in May 1995, award received in 1997).
  • Member of the Advisory Council of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association, since 1998)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of WEB-SLS, The European Student Journal of Language and Speech
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of “In Cognito” (a French journal on cognitive sciences)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific.
  • Reviewer of a variety of publications (IEEE and others)
  • Appointed expert for the European Commission for European projects. From 2002 to 2007, member of the EC-ISTAG (Information Society Technology Advisory Group).
  • Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Biometric Signal Processing, 2004.
  • Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Robust Speech Recognition, 2005.
  • Member of the Organizing Committee or Scientific Committee of numerous international conferences on speech processing, neural networks, and/or multimodal processing, including:
      • Co-Technical Chairman of the 2002 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, FL, USA
      • General Chairman of the 2002 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks Signal Processing (NNSP), Martigny, CH
      • Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2002 IEEE Intl. Conf on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Lausanne , August 2002
      • General Chairman of the 2003 Interspeech Conference, Geneva , CH
      • Co-General Chairman, IEEE Multi/Media Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP) workshop, Nice, 2001
      • European Liaison, and member of the scientific committee for the IEEE Neural Network for Signal Processing workshop, 2001
      • General Chairman of the First Joint Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (MLMI’04), Martigny (CH), June 21-23, 2004 .
      • Member of the Organizing Committee of 2nd and 3rd Joint Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (MLMI’05-06), Edinburgh ( July 11-13, 2006 ) and Washington ( May 1-3, 2006 ).
      • General Chair of the 2011 Intl. Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’2011), Alicante , November 14-18, 2011 .
  • Technical Committee member of the IEEE-Thematic Meetings on Signal Processing (IEEE-THEMES) on “Signal and Information Processing for Social Networks”, during Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, March 15, 2009.
  • Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (J-STSP) on “Signal and Information Processing for Social Network”, in preparation.
  • Guest Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on “Mobile Media Search”, in preparation.
  • Guest Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on “Signal and Information Processing for Social Learning and Networking”, in preparation.