Academia

Scientific animation

• Co-organiser of seminars and study days including Analyse et synthèse des textures musicales dans le contexte de l’IA (2025)
• Co-organiser of the EUSIPCO 2024 special session
• Guest editor of special issue on Vocal Interactivity in Interaction Studies (2023)
• Co-organiser of the VIHAR 2021 workshop
• Co-organiser of the VIHAR 2019 workshop
• Guest editor of special issue on Vocal Interactivity in Computer Speech & Language (2017)
• Co-organiser of the VIHAR 2017 workshop
• Co-organiser of the EBD-2017 workshop
• Organiser of the Intelligibility under the Microscope IS2016 special session
• Co-organiser of the CHiME 2016 workshop
• Co-organiser of the VIHAR Dagstuhl seminar 2016
• Co-organiser of the CHiME3 & CHiME4 challenges

Reviewing

• Active journal reviewer for:
  IEEE/ACM TASLP, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., Applied Acoustics, JASA,
  Digital Signal Processing, J. R. Soc. Interface, Neurocomputing,
  Computer Speech & Language, Speech Communication, IEEE TPAMI, Scientific Reports

• Active conference reviewer for:
  ECAI, ASRU, SIGDIAL, INTERSPEECH, SLT, ICASSP, ICRA

PhD Juries

• Mar 2025 – Rapporteur, Sorbonne Université / Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris
  Data-centric artificial intelligence for ecoacoustics
  Doctoral defense by Felix Michaud

• Jan 2024 – Rapporteur, IMT Atlantique, Brest
  Multimodal AI Methods in Oceanographic Observation Contexts and Heterogeneous Multi-Sensor Maritime Surveillance
  Doctoral defense by Matteo Zambra

• Dec 2023 – Member of the Jury, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille
  From Vocal Signal to Neural Response: Computational Modeling and Evolutionary Perspectives on Voice Processing in the Auditory Cortex
  Doctoral defense by Charly Lamothe

• Oct 2023 – Rapporteur, University of Le Mans
  Interactions Between Speakers: From Overlapping Speech Detection to Interruptions Detection
  Doctoral defense by Martin Lebourdais

• Dec 2021 – Member of the Jury, Universidad Jaume I
  Towards a predictive interface for the specification of intervention tasks in underwater robotics
  Doctoral defense by Juan Carlos García Sánchez

• Sep 2019 – Member of the Jury, Paris-Saclay University
  Steps Towards End-to-End Neural Speaker Diarization
  Doctoral defense by Ruiqing Yin

• Sep 2017 – External referee, University of Granada
  Robust Speech Recognition on Intelligent Mobile Devices with Dual-Microphone
  Doctoral defense by Iván López Espejo

• Sep 2017 – Member of the Jury, University of Granada
  Estimation and Reconstruction Techniques for Robust Speech Transmissions
  Doctoral defense by Domingo López Oller

Prizes, Distinctions and Invitations

• Jan 2025: Invited scholar for a SPARC-III project — “Networked Marine Robotic Systems for Ocean Exploration”, Calicut and Goa, India
  Talk: AI for underwater machine perception: listening to whales & seeing in the deep

• Oct 2024: Leader of the Play Your Part team at the Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies (to take place in Jun–Aug 2025), Brno, Czechia
  Theme: Natural Language Processing and AI safety

• Sep 2024: Winner of DISPLACE Challenge Tracks 1 & 2 — TALTECH–IRIT–LIS Team (Online)

• Jun 2024: Best Student Paper Award at Speaker Odyssey 2024, Quebec, Canada
  Paper: “PixIT: Joint Training of Speaker Diarization and Speech Separation from Real-world Multi-speaker Recordings”

• Nov 2023: Invited lecturer at the Marine Robotics School, Goa, India
  Talk: AI for underwater machine perception: listening to whales & seeing in the deep

• Sep 2023: 1st place in Clarity Prediction Challenge 2, Dublin, Ireland
  Hearing Industry Research Consortium best system prize — “Temporal-hierarchical features from noise-robust speech foundation models for non-intrusive intelligibility prediction”

• Jul 2023: Invited participant to workshop Automatic Detection in Bioacoustics, University of Cambridge, UK

• Mar 2023: Invited speaker at MARBLE workshop on Automatic Detection in Bioacoustics, Athens, Greece
  MARBLE – Joint Master on Maritime Robotics in Blue Economy

• Sep 2022: ISCA Award for Best Review Paper in Computer Speech and Language (2017–2021), Seoul, South Korea
  Paper: “The third ‘CHiME’ speech separation and recognition challenge: Analysis and outcomes” — Jon Barker, Ricard Marxer, Emmanuel Vincent, Shinji Watanabe

• Aug 2022: Invited speaker at workshop Full-stack Bioacoustics: Field Kit to AI Action, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands
  Talk: Study of speech (and other signals) in adverse conditions

• May 2022: Invited speaker at ixTalk, ixBlue, La Ciotat, France
  Talk: Machine learning with few labels

• Sep 2021: ISCA Award for Best Review Paper in Computer Speech and Language (2016–2020), Brno, Czech Republic
  Paper: “An analysis of environment, microphone and data simulation mismatches in robust speech recognition” — Emmanuel Vincent, Shinji Watanabe, Aditya Arie Nugraha, Jon Barker, Ricard Marxer

• Jan 2020: Invited speaker at Speech-in-Noise (SPIN) Workshop, Toulouse, France
  Talk: Towards microscopic intelligibility modelling

• Jan 2019: Invited abstract at International Conference of Acoustics (ICA)

• 2018: NVIDIA GPU Grant

• 2017: Google Internet of Things (IoT) Award