Dilek Hakkani-Tur

The 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems

The 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 3-5 August 2026. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. #SIGDIAL2026 https://2026.sigdial.org/

Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila. A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher. https://lawzero.org/en https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/

Associate professor at CMU, studying natural language processing and machine learning. Co-founder All Hands AI

Professor at UW; Researcher at Meta. LMs, NLP, ML. PNW life.

Professor a NYU; Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Award Laureate. http://yann.lecun.com

Senior Director, Research Scientist @ Meta FAIR + Visiting Prof @ NYU. Pretrain+SFT: NLP from Scratch (2011). Multilayer attention+position encode+LLM: MemNet (2015). Recent (2024): Self-Rewarding LLMs & more!

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics. Hash tags: #NLProc #ACL2026NLP

Let’s build better AI - open is the path forward

Mom of 2 teenagers, wife of introverted engineer, living in PDX in beautiful OR. Liberal empath who loves knitting, hiking, reading

💼 Prof @OlinCollege 🌲 Former Postdoc @StanfordHCI 🎓 Ph.D. @CornellCIS ✨ Human-Centered AI, Older Adults, Home Health, Conversational Agents, Empathy

Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Acadiau.ca. Psycholinguistics. Human-AI interaction. Running. www.lamettilab.com Halifax, NS.

Prof of Computational Linguistics / NLP @ Uni Potsdam, Germany. Working on embodied / multimodal / conversational AI. In a way. Also affiliated w/ DFKI Berlin (German Research Center for AI).

Prof in CS; ELLIS Fellow; Edinburgh Centre for Robotics; Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh. Postdocs at Stanford and Edinburgh. Research in NLP, dialogue, conversational AI, multimodality, robots, embodied AI, collaborative AI

Professor at the University of Sheffield. I do #NLProc stuff.

Thanks for coming to “Foundation Models for Biological Discoveries” (FMs4Bio) @ AAAI 2025!

Lives and works at the crossroads of museums, libraries, and archives. For connecting academically: BA Linguistics (college of info), MBA, MLIS (college of data, info and society)

PhD at UCL

PhD student @uwnlp.bsky.social @uwcse.bsky.social | visiting researcher @MetaAI | previously @jhuclsp.bsky.social https://stellalisy.com

Faculty at Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/kemal-oflazer/

Assistant Professor @Mila-Quebec.bsky.social Co-Director @McGill-NLP.bsky.social Researcher @ServiceNow.bsky.social Alumni: @StanfordNLP.bsky.social, EdinburghNLP Natural Language Processor #NLProc

Linguist in AI & CogSci 🧠👩‍💻🤖 PhD student @ ILLC, University of Amsterdam 🌐 https://mdhk.net/ 🐘 https://scholar.social/@mdhk 🐦 https://twitter.com/mariannedhk

Full professor of inclusive speech communication at TU Delft, The Netherlands. Former president of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Mother of 3🌈

Linguist. Inclusive speech tech. Cats.

interspeech2026.org 27 September – 1 October, ICC, Sydney, Australia 'Speaking Together' Proudly hosted by the Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Professor at Université de Lorraine/Loria/Mines Nancy. Doing research is speech and audio processing.

Assistant professor at Cornell Psychology Department. CoCoCo Lab (Cornell Computational Cognition Lab) @co3lab.bsky.social. I am recruiting!

Speech and audio research scientist @MERL. saneworkshop.org co-founder. IguanaTex developer. 🌐 jonathanleroux.org 🐙 github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/ 🎓 scholar.google.com/citations?user=aUpxty8AAAAJ&hl=en

Lecturer in speech and language technology, CSTR, University of Edinburgh. https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/clai/

ml, audio, cv, nlp, speech, bioacoustics // Assoc. Prof. at Université de Toulon, researcher at LIS CNRS UMR 7020, director of http://www.master-mir.eu in marine robotics and AI

PhD candidate in linguistics (phonetics / phonology) at the University of Amsterdam Looking at Seoul Korean, voice quality analysis, symbolic neural networks. 🇳🇱 🇬🇧

Speech/cognitive scientist, Professor at Aix-Marseille University, with an interest for speech perception in social interactions, week-end road cyclist

Assoc. Professor at UC Berkeley Artificial and biological intelligence and language Linguistics Lead at Project CETI 🐳 PI Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab 🗣️ College Principal of Bowles Hall 🏰 https://www.gasperbegus.com

Language processing - Neuroscience - Machine Learning - Assistant Professor at Stanford University - She/Her - 🏳️‍🌈

machine learning researcher @Apple | PhD from @CoML_ENS | speech, ml and cognition.

The official(ish) account of the Auditory-VIsual Speech Association (AVISA) AV 👄 👓 speech references, but mostly what interests me avisa.loria.fr

So we’re all on this now?!

Professor of Brain and Language and Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh. EiC Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. I study language processing and disorders.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Computational Linguist Language learner : ייִדיש ,العربية, Norsk, Esperanto — Photography

Speech, language, and deep learning at the Technion. But also psychology, philosophy, and history. And Jazz improv.

Engineer, Speech Scientist, Love to ask questions and digging into them. Supporting hands-on teaching and open for crazy ideas. Find out more: www.ingo-siegert.de and www.felicia-festival.ai

Group Leader @BCBL and Research Fellow @Ikerbasque studying speech and language. Passionate about basic research. Mom and feminist. https://www.bcbl.eu/en/conocenos/equipo/efthymia-kapnoula http://effiekapnoula.com/WorkWithMe.html

Linguistics and cognitive science at Northwestern. Opinions are my own. he/him/his

CNRS researcher @lppparis.bsky.social (LPP) in Paris she/her/hers http://annehermes.de/

Associate Professor in Speech Science, Director of MSc Language Sciences, DAAPS Lab Director, University College London

Phonetician at Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics Iconicity, multimodality, prominence ✨ and gravel bike 🚴🏼‍♀️

Phonetician interested in biological processes underlying human and non-human animals; Respiration; Motor Control; Cross-Modal Correspondence, Multimodality; Lover of Gardening

Sociophonetician & forensic speech scientist @ Lancaster University. All about voice and identity. I talk about trains a lot. You have been warned. justinjhlo.github.io

I study language using tools from cognitive science and neuroscience. I also like snuggles.

Linguist and SLP at NYU. Trying to raise a bilingual child in a mostly monolingual household.

Official account for the Bergelson Lab at Harvard, sporadically maintained by the PI:). Just a lab, trying to figure out how babies learn language, somehow caught in the crosshairs of gov't admin battles.

Associate Professor of Speech Processing Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Once was speech technologist - Water of Leith, Edinburgh - Born 320.23 ppm

Postdoc speech~mental health~mHealth www.kcl.ac.uk/research/voice-and-speech-processing-for-health ~ www.camhsdlab.co.uk @kingsioppn.bsky.social @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social scicomm ~ medphys migraineur ~ cat deprived ~ Brit/Aus/Bayerin hybrid

Professor of psychology at the University of York. Interested in language, sleep, memory, learning. https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academicstaff/mgg5/

Lecturer in Phonetics & Phonology @NewcastleECLS || Postdoc @Radboud | DPhil @Oxford | MA @NewcastleSELLL | BA @beiwai | LingEngineer @Rokid || ❤️ #Prosody# #LabPhon# #SpeechTech#

Professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke College; Cognitive scientist studying speech and music

Professor of Psychology at Carleton College. Speech, cognition, measurement, open science! Book carver. Podcast: Juice and the Squeeze. she/her. http://juliastrand.com

Assistant Professor studying conversation dynamics at Utah State University Lover of speech science, autism research, stats, and mountains PhD | CCC-SLP | she/her camillewynnlab.com

Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing & Explainable AI, University of Amsterdam, ILLC

Speech • Language • Learning https://grzegorz.chrupala.me @ Tilburg University

compling phd student @ boulder rare languages, morphology, finite state automata michaelginn.com

First-year NLP PhD @ USC | Intern @ TogetherAI | Prev. UW, AWS https://nanami18.github.io/

Research Scientist at @ibmresearch #NLProc, #RL. Opinions are my own.

PhDing @AIM_Harvard @MassGenBrigham｜PhD Fellow @Google | Previously @Bos_CHIP @BrandeisU More robustness and explainabilities 🧐 for Health AI. shanchen.dev

Assistant Professor in CS + AI at USC. Previously at Stanford, CMU. Machine Learning, Decision Making, AI-for-Science, Generative AI, ML Systems, LLMs. https://willieneis.github.io

Assoc. Prof. in Linguistics at CU Boulder (@bouldernlp.bsky.social). My group researches computational methods for endangered and low-resource languages, plus computational discourse and semantics: @lecslab.bsky.social. I'm a musician and have cats!

Research Scientist at Kensho NLP PhD from CU Boulder. prev: Apple, ETS, Pearson, Army Research Lab. https://adamits.github.io

NLP/Computational Linguistics PhD @lecslab.bsky.social and @bouldernlp.bsky.social typologically robust multilingual NLP technology for language documentation https://covetedfish.github.io/

🥇 LLMs together (co-created model merging, BabyLM, textArena.ai) 🥈 Spreading science over hype in #ML & #NLP Proud shareLM💬 Donor @IBMResearch & @MIT_CSAIL

Professor at Cardiff University (Cardiff NLP). Natural Language Processing researcher. Computational Social Science. Sometimes chess.

PhD student @CMU LTI NLP | IR | Evaluation | RAG https://kimdanny.github.io

Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.

Assistant professor @ UIUC, studying personalized language and communication

Researching planning, reasoning, and RL in LLMs @ Reflection AI. Previously: Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, MIT. I post about: AI 🤖, flowers 🌷, parenting 👶, public transit 🚆. She/her. http://www.jesshamrick.com

NLP research - PhD student at UW

I (try to) do NLP research. Antipodean abroad. currently doing PhD @uwcse, prev @usyd @ai2 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 ivison.id.au

stealth // Gemini RL+inference @ Google DeepMind // Conversational AI @ Meta // RL Agents @ EA // ML+Information Theory @ MIT+Harvard+Duke // Georgia Tech PhD 📍{NYC, SFO, YYZ} 🔗 https://beirami.github.io/

Post-doc @ VU Amsterdam, prev University of Edinburgh. Neurosymbolic Machine Learning, Generative Models, commonsense reasoning https://www.emilevankrieken.com/

Assistant professor at Yale Linguistics. Studying computational linguistics, cognitive science, and AI. He/him.

NLP PhD student at Cornell / https://srhm.ca/

Working on #NLProc for social good. Currently at LTI at CMU. 🏳‍🌈

🏫 asst. prof. of compling at university of pittsburgh past: 🛎️ postdoc @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich 🤠 PhD in CompLing from Georgetown 🕺🏻 x2 intern @Spotify @SpotifyResearch https://janetlauyeung.github.io/

Full professor at University of A Coruña. Member of LyS group, CITIC. Researcher in natural language processing/computational linguistics. http://www.grupolys.org/~cgomezr

Researcher in ML/NLP at the University of Edinburgh (faculty at Informatics and EdinburghNLP), Co-Founder/CTO at www.miniml.ai, ELLIS (@ELLIS.eu) Scholar, Generative AI Lab (GAIL, https://gail.ed.ac.uk/) Fellow -- www.neuralnoise.com, he/they

Assistant professor at CLTL Vu Amsterdam, #NLProc, interested in language model interpretability, stereotyping, bias, and implicit expressions of perspectives.

ML & NLP at Google DeepMind

research scientist @deepmind. language & multi-agent rl & interpretability. phd @BrownUniversity '22 under ellie pavlick (she/her) https://roma-patel.github.io

Computational linguist from Sydney and Berlin. Author of the spacy.io NLP tools Founder and CTO @explosion.ai LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/honnibal Blog: honnibal.dev

PhD student at University of Michigan School of Information. Data and evaluation practices for language models / language models as cultural technologies. https://meera-desai.com

Language and thought in brains and in machines. Assistant Prof @ Georgia Tech Psychology. Previously a postdoc @ MIT Quest for Intelligence, PhD @ MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She/her https://www.language-intelligence-thought.net

LLM for the commons.

Ex-tweep AI, NLP, ML, LLM Amazon Lab126