Julia Hirschberg Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 11:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Professor Julia Hirschberg has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional distinctions awarded to an engineer. Hirschberg was cited by the NAE for her "contributions to the use of prosody in text-to-speech and spoken dialogue systems, and to audio browsing and retrieval." Her research in speech analysis uses machine learning to help experts identify deceptive speech, and even to assess sentiment and emotion across languages and cultures.

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