Student Grant Winners

IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Travel Grant

Sponsored by: IBM Corporation
Winner of the IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant:

Shuai Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2434: FOCAL KL-DIVERGENCE BASED DILATED CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CO-CHANNEL SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION
with Yanmin Qian and Kai Yu

Administered by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Travel Grant recognizes the student author(s) of an outstanding paper(s) on speaker and language recognition area accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Grant

Sponsored by: Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero and Hsiao-Wuen Hon
Winners of the IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant:

Kazuki Irie, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Zhihong Lei, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
3499: PREDICTION OF LSTM-RNN FULL CONTEXT STATES AS A SUBTASK FOR N-GRAM FEEDFORWARD LANGUAGE MODELS
with Ralf Schlueter and Hermann Ney

Administered by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Spoken Language Processing Student Grant program honors the student(s) of an outstanding paper(s) in spoken language processing area accepted for publication in a conference (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing) or a workshop (IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding).