Organizing Committee

General Chairs
• Ahmed Ali (QCRI)
• Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google)

Regional Publicity Chairs
• Sebastian Möller (TU Berlin)
• Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University)

Finance Chairs
• Jan Trmal (Johns Hopkins University)
• Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave (UdeA, Colombia)

Sponsorship Chairs
• Murat Akbacak (Apple)
• Eman Fituri (QCRI)
• Jimmy Kunzmann (Amazon)

Publication Chairs
• Alberto Abad Gareta (INESC-ID/IST)
• Erfan Loweimi (King's College London)

Local Arrangements Chairs
• Shammur Chowdhury (QCRI)
• Houda Bouamor (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar)

Invited Speaker Chairs
• Andrew Rosenberg (Google)
• Nancy F. Chen (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R))

SLTC Liaison
• Kyu Jeong Han (ASAAP)

SPS Liaison
• Zhijian Ou (Tsinghua University)

Technical Chairs
• Shinji Watanabe (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Sanjeev Khudanpur (Johns Hopkins University)
• Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
• Murat Saraclar ( Bogazici University)
• Marc Delcroix (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)

Challenge & Demonstration Chairs
• Imed Zitouni (Google)
• Jon Barker (University of Sheffield)
• Seokhwan Kim (Amazon)
• Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh)

Advisory Board
• Jim Glass (MIT)
• Mona Diab (FaceBook)
• Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar)
• Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore)

Hackathon Chairs
• Thomas Schaaf (3M | M*Modal)
• Gianni Di Caro (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar)
• Shinji Watanabe - ESPNET (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Paola Garcia - KALDI/K2 (Johns Hopkins University)
• Mirco Ravanelli - SpeechBrain (Université de Montréal)
• Alessandra Cervone (Amazon)
• Mus'ab Husaini (QCRI)
• Harshita Diddee (Microsoft)