Scholar
Isabel Trancoso
Google Scholar ID: Auzu_DcAAAAJ
INESC-ID / IST / University of Lisbon
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,949
H-index
21
i10-index
63
Publications
20
Co-authors
24
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2011
- Elevated to ISCA Fellow in 2014
- Elevated to ELLIS Fellow in 2024
- Recipient of the 2024 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement
- Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2003–2005)
- Held leadership roles in IEEE SPS and ISCA, including Chair of Fellow Evaluation Committees
- Currently chairs the IEEE Fellow Committee
- Served on editorial boards of IEEE Proceedings, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Signal Processing Magazine, and Cognitive Computation
Research Experience
- Worked on medium-to-low bit rate speech coding at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey (October 1984 – June 1985)
- Founded the speech processing group at INESC-ID, later restructured as L2F/HLT
- Current member of the Supervisory Board of the Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network PSST (Privacy for Smart Speech Technology)
- Current member of the ISCA Advisory Council
- Chair of the Scientific Board of the Center for Responsible AI (CRAI), Portugal
- Chair of the IEEE Fellow Committee (2024–2025)
Background
- Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon
- Former President of the Scientific Council of INESC ID Lisbon
- Research interests include: medium-to-low bit rate speech coding, speech synthesis and recognition, development of tools and resources for Portuguese, microblog translation, lexical and prosodic entrainment in spoken dialogues, disfluency detection in spontaneous speech, and conversation quality evaluation
- Recent focus on speech as a health biomarker and privacy-preserving speech processing
- Formally retired from teaching in October 2022 but remains actively engaged in speech and language research
Miscellany
- Member of IST’s Diversity and Gender Balance Group since 2016
- Member of IST’s Ethics Committee since 2019
- Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IST (2015–2016)
- Served on IST’s School Assembly (2021–2022), Scientific Council (2017–2020), and School Council (2013–2014)
- Former coordinator of EEC undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum
- Taught graduate courses: 'Speech Processing' and 'Advanced Spoken Language Processing Seminar'
