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Isabel Trancoso received the Licenciado, Mestre, Doutor and Agregado degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from [http://www.ist.utl.pt/ Instituto Superior Técnico], Lisbon, Portugal, in 1979, 1984, 1987 and 2002, respectively. She has been a lecturer at this University since 1979, having coordinated the EEC course for 6 years. She is currently a Full Professor, teaching speech processing courses. She is the President of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. She is also a senior researcher at [http://www.inesc-id.pt INESC ID Lisbon], having launched the speech processing group, now restructured as L2F, in 1990. Her first research topic was medium-to-low bit rate speech coding. From October 1984 through June 1985, she worked on this topic at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Isabel Trancoso is a full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico  ([http://www.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ IST], Univ. Lisbon), and the former President of the Scientific Council of [http://www.inesc-id.pt INESC ID Lisbon]. She got her PhD in ECE from IST in 1987. She chaired the ECE Department of IST. She was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and had many leadership roles in SPS (Signal Processing Society of [http://www.ieee.org/ IEEE]) and [http://www.isca-speech.org/ ISCA] (International Speech Communication Association), namely having been President of ISCA and Chair of the Fellow Evaluation Committees of both SPS and ISCA. She currently chairs the IEEE Fellow Committee. She was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2011, to ISCA Fellow in 2014, and to ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Fellow in 2024. In 2025, she became a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. She was the recipient of the 2024 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement.
After her PhD, her research focus shifted to speech synthesis and recognition, with a special emphasis on tools and resources for the Portuguese language. Her current research scope is much broader, encompassing many areas in spoken language processing. Her recent PhD advising activities cover microblog translation, semi-supervised machine learning for statistical machine translation, privacy preserving speech mining, lexical and prosodic entrainment in spoken dialogues and disfluency detection in spontaneous speech.  
She was a member of the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Board (1993-1998), the IEEE Speech Technical Committee (since 1999) and the Permanent Council for the Organization of the International Conferences on Spoken Language Processing (since 1998). She was elected Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2003-2005), Member-at-Large of the [http://www.ieee.org/ IEEE] [http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/ Signal Processing Society] Board of Governors (2006-2008), Vice-President of [http://www.isca-speech.org/ ISCA] (2005-2007) and President of [http://www.isca-speech.org/ ISCA] (2007-2011). She chaired the Organizing Committee of the [http://www.interspeech2005.org/ INTERSPEECH'2005 Conference] that took place in September 2005, in Lisbon. She also chaired the IEEE James Flanagan Award Committee (2013-2014).
She currently integrates the ISCA Advisory Council, the ISCA Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee (Chair), the ELRA Board (Vice-President), the IEEE Fellows Committee, and the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Strategic Planning Committee. She received the 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award. She was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2011, and to ISCA Fellow in 2014.


== Research Interests ==
== Research Interests ==


* Human Language Technologies
She launched the speech processing group of INESC-ID, later restructured as L2F/HLT. Her first research topic was medium-to-low bit rate speech coding. From October 1984 through June 1985, she worked on this topic at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
After her PhD, her research focus shifted to speech synthesis and recognition, with a special emphasis on tools and resources for the Portuguese language. Her current research scope is much broader, encompassing many areas in spoken language processing. Her recent PhD advising activities cover microblog translation, lexical and prosodic entrainment in spoken dialogues, disfluency detection in spontaneous speech, and conversation quality evaluation. She has a particular interest in speech as a health biomarker and privacy preserving speech processing. Her formal retirement (from teaching) in October 2022 did not affect in any way her passion for speech and language research.


== Teaching Activities (at [http://www.ist.utl.pt IST]) ==
She is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of the Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network PSST (Privacy for Smart Speech Technology). She is also a member of the ISCA Advisory Council, Chair of the Scientific Board of the Center for Responsible AI (CRAI) in Portugal, and Chair of the IEEE Fellow Advisory and Oversight Subcommittee, following her term as Chair of the Fellow Committee (2024-2025).


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== Academic Activities (at [http://www.tecnico.ulisboa.pt IST]) [[Image:IST_A_RGB_POS.png||200px|right]] ==


* President of the [https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/departamentos/deec Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering]
* Member of the [https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/campus-life/living-at-tecnico/diversity-and-gender-balance/ Diversity and Gender Balance Group], since its creation in 2016


* Postgraduate Course: [https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/disciplinas/SAPF/2014-2015/1-semestre Advanced Spoken Language Processing Seminar]
* Member of the [https://etica.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/ Ethics Committee] since its creation in 2019


* Graduate Course: [https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/disciplinas/PF36451113/2015-2016/2-semestre Spoken Language Processing]
* Member of the School Assembly (2021-2022)


* Undergraduate Course: [https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/disciplinas/FP179/2016-2017/1-semestre  Programming]
* Member of the Scientific Council (2017-2020)


* Former Coordinator of EEC Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses
* Member of the School Council (2013-2014)
 
* President of the [https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/departamentos/deec Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering] (2015-2016)
 
* Postgraduate Course: Advanced Spoken Language Processing Seminar
 
* Graduate Course: Speech Processing
 
* Former Coordinator of EEC Undergraduate and Postgraduate Curriculum


== Editorial Activities ==
== Editorial Activities ==
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* Editor-in-Chief [http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/taslp/ IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing] (2003-2005)
* Editor-in-Chief [http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/taslp/ IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing] (2003-2005)
* Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Proceedings (2020-2025)
* Member of the Senior Editorial Board of the Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing (2020-)
* Member of the Editorial Board of the Signal Processing Magazine (2006-2008, 2014-2017), currently Senior Editorial Board member
* Member of the Editorial Board of [https://www.springer.com/journal/12559 Cognitive Computation] (2008-2025), currently as Advisor
* Member of the Editorial Board of Speech Communication (1993-2002)
* Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Deep Multimodal Speech Enhancement and Separation, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2025
* Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Deep Learning for Multi-modal Intelligence across Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals for the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2020
* Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification for the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2017
* Guest Editor of IEEE/ACM T-ASL Special Issue on Continuous Space and Related Methods in NLP, March 2015


* Guest Editor of Special Issue of the Speech Communication journal on Iberian Languages, November-December 2008
* Guest Editor of Special Issue of the Speech Communication journal on Iberian Languages, November-December 2008


* Guest Editor of IEEE/ACM T-ASL Special Issue on Continuous Space and Related Methods in NLP
== Conference Organization ==
She is/was involved in the Scientific Committee of many different conferences and workshops and was part of the organizing committee of the following events, namely for INTERSPEECH (Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association), ICASSP (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing) and ASRU (IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop):
 
* [https://interspeech2027.org/ INTERSPEECH 2027], São Paulo, Brazil – Organizing Committee
 
* [https://interspeech2026.org/ INTERSPEECH 2026], Sydney, Australia – Plenary Sessions Chair and Area Chair
 
* [https://2026.ieeeicassp.org/ ICASSP 2026], Barcelona, Spain – Special Sessions Chair
 
* [https://lrec2026.info/ LREC 2026] (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) – Senior Area Chair
 
* [https://2025.ieeeicassp.org/ ICASSP 2025], Hyderabad, India – Technical Program Chair
 
* [https://interspeech2024.org/ INTERSPEECH 2024], Kos, Greece – Tutorials Chair, keynote speaker
 
* Satellite Workshop on [https://trustworthyspeechprocessing.github.io/] Trustworthy Speech Processing, @ICASSP 2024 (Organizer)
 
* Special Session on [https://trustworthyspeechprocessing.github.io/ Trustworthy Speech Processing] @Interpeech 2022 (Organizer)
 
* [https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/speech-as-personal-identifiable-information.html Speech as PII] - Workshop on Speech as Personal Identifiable Information, Lorentz Center, The Netherlands, November 2021 (Organizer)
 
* [https://2020.ieeeicassp.org/ ICASSP 2020], Barcelona, Spain – Plenary Sessions Chair
 
* [https://iberspeech2016.inesc-id.pt/ IberSPEECH 2016], Lisbon, Portugal – Plenary Talks Chair


* Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Editorial Board
* [http://www.emnlp2015.org EMNLP2015] (ACL Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), Lisbon, Portugal – Local Organizing Committee member
 
* [http://www.icassp2011.com ICASSP 2011], Prague, Czech Republic –Special Sessions Chair
 
* [http://www.slt2010.org SLT 2010] (IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop), Berkeley, California - Technical Chair
 
* ASRU 2025, 2021, 2009, 2001,1999 – Diversity & Inclusion Chair, Technical Program Co-Chair, Publicity co-Chair, Sponsorship Chair, Publicity Chair (respectively)


== Conference Organization ==
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* 2005 Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005,  [http://www.interspeech2005.org Interspeech 2005] (Chair)
* [http://www.interspeech2005.org Interspeech 2005], Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005  (Chair)


* 2009 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Merano, Italy, December 2009, ASRU 2009 (Publicity co-Chair)
* ESCA-NATO Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Under Stress, Lisbon, 1995 – Co-chair.


* 2010 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Berkeley, California, USA, December 2010, [http://www.slt2010.org SLT 2010],  (Technical co-Chair)
* PROPOR (Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language), Lisbon, 1993 – Founder and Chair of the first workshop in this series, formerly known as EPLP. The workshop had its 16th edition in 2024.


* 2011 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011, [http://www.icassp2011.com ICASSP 2011] (Special Sessions co-Chair)
* MELECON'89 (IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference), Lisbon, 1989 - Publicity Chair


* 2015 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015, [http://www.emnlp2015.org EMNLP2015],  (Local Publicity Chair)
* She has been member of the Scientific Committee of Eurospeech conferences in 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001, Area Chair of Interspeech conferences in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2026 and Advisory/Steering committee member in 2010, 2014, and 2018.


* 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2016, Barcelona, Spain, May 2020 (Plenary Sessions Co-Chair)


== Other Activities ==
== Other Activities ==


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* President of [http://www.isca-speech.org International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)] (2007-2011)
* President of [http://www.isca-speech.org International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)] (2007-2011)
* Chair of the ISCA Fellow Selection Committee (2019-2020)
* Chair of the ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Selection Committee (2014-2016) 
* Member of the ISCA Advisory Council (2012-)
* Chair of the IEEE Fellow Ad Hoc Committee on Society/Technical Council Fellow Evaluating Committees (2019-2020)
* Chair of the Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2017-2019)
* Member of the IEEE Fellows Committee (2014-2016, 2021-2022)
* Vice-Chair of the IEEE Fellows Committee (2023)
* Chair of the IEEE Fellows Committee (2024-2025)
* Member of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Strategic Planning Committee (2014-2016, 2021-2023)
* Member of IEEE PRAC - Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee (2022-2025)
* Member of IEEE Conferences Committee (2021)
* Chair of the IEEE James Flanagan Award Committee (2013-2014)
* Member of the Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2012-2013)


* Member of [http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/ IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors] (2006-2008)
* Member of [http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/ IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors] (2006-2008)


* Former member of [http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/ IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee]
* Member of [http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/ IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee] (1999-2005)


* Vice-President of the Board of [http://www.elra.info European Language Resources Association (ELRA)]
* Former Vice-President of the Board of [http://www.elra.info European Language Resources Association (ELRA)]


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Latest revision as of 16:15, 15 January 2026

Isabel Trancoso is a full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Univ. Lisbon), and the former President of the Scientific Council of INESC ID Lisbon. She got her PhD in ECE from IST in 1987. She chaired the ECE Department of IST. She was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and had many leadership roles in SPS (Signal Processing Society of IEEE) and ISCA (International Speech Communication Association), namely having been President of ISCA and Chair of the Fellow Evaluation Committees of both SPS and ISCA. She currently chairs the IEEE Fellow Committee. She was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2011, to ISCA Fellow in 2014, and to ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Fellow in 2024. In 2025, she became a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. She was the recipient of the 2024 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement.

Research Interests

She launched the speech processing group of INESC-ID, later restructured as L2F/HLT. Her first research topic was medium-to-low bit rate speech coding. From October 1984 through June 1985, she worked on this topic at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. After her PhD, her research focus shifted to speech synthesis and recognition, with a special emphasis on tools and resources for the Portuguese language. Her current research scope is much broader, encompassing many areas in spoken language processing. Her recent PhD advising activities cover microblog translation, lexical and prosodic entrainment in spoken dialogues, disfluency detection in spontaneous speech, and conversation quality evaluation. She has a particular interest in speech as a health biomarker and privacy preserving speech processing. Her formal retirement (from teaching) in October 2022 did not affect in any way her passion for speech and language research.

She is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of the Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network PSST (Privacy for Smart Speech Technology). She is also a member of the ISCA Advisory Council, Chair of the Scientific Board of the Center for Responsible AI (CRAI) in Portugal, and Chair of the IEEE Fellow Advisory and Oversight Subcommittee, following her term as Chair of the Fellow Committee (2024-2025).

Academic Activities (at IST)

  • Member of the School Assembly (2021-2022)
  • Member of the Scientific Council (2017-2020)
  • Member of the School Council (2013-2014)
  • Postgraduate Course: Advanced Spoken Language Processing Seminar
  • Graduate Course: Speech Processing
  • Former Coordinator of EEC Undergraduate and Postgraduate Curriculum

Editorial Activities

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Proceedings (2020-2025)
  • Member of the Senior Editorial Board of the Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing (2020-)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Signal Processing Magazine (2006-2008, 2014-2017), currently Senior Editorial Board member
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Speech Communication (1993-2002)
  • Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Deep Multimodal Speech Enhancement and Separation, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2025
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Deep Learning for Multi-modal Intelligence across Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals for the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2020
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Spoofing and Countermeasures for Automatic Speaker Verification for the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2017
  • Guest Editor of IEEE/ACM T-ASL Special Issue on Continuous Space and Related Methods in NLP, March 2015
  • Guest Editor of Special Issue of the Speech Communication journal on Iberian Languages, November-December 2008

Conference Organization

She is/was involved in the Scientific Committee of many different conferences and workshops and was part of the organizing committee of the following events, namely for INTERSPEECH (Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association), ICASSP (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing) and ASRU (IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop):

  • ICASSP 2026, Barcelona, Spain – Special Sessions Chair
  • LREC 2026 (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) – Senior Area Chair
  • ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India – Technical Program Chair
  • Satellite Workshop on [1] Trustworthy Speech Processing, @ICASSP 2024 (Organizer)
  • Speech as PII - Workshop on Speech as Personal Identifiable Information, Lorentz Center, The Netherlands, November 2021 (Organizer)
  • ICASSP 2020, Barcelona, Spain – Plenary Sessions Chair
  • EMNLP2015 (ACL Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), Lisbon, Portugal – Local Organizing Committee member
  • ICASSP 2011, Prague, Czech Republic –Special Sessions Chair
  • SLT 2010 (IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop), Berkeley, California - Technical Chair
  • ASRU 2025, 2021, 2009, 2001,1999 – Diversity & Inclusion Chair, Technical Program Co-Chair, Publicity co-Chair, Sponsorship Chair, Publicity Chair (respectively)
  • ESCA-NATO Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Under Stress, Lisbon, 1995 – Co-chair.
  • PROPOR (Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language), Lisbon, 1993 – Founder and Chair of the first workshop in this series, formerly known as EPLP. The workshop had its 16th edition in 2024.
  • MELECON'89 (IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference), Lisbon, 1989 - Publicity Chair
  • She has been member of the Scientific Committee of Eurospeech conferences in 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001, Area Chair of Interspeech conferences in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2026 and Advisory/Steering committee member in 2010, 2014, and 2018.


Other Activities

  • Chair of the ISCA Fellow Selection Committee (2019-2020)
  • Chair of the ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Selection Committee (2014-2016)
  • Member of the ISCA Advisory Council (2012-)
  • Chair of the IEEE Fellow Ad Hoc Committee on Society/Technical Council Fellow Evaluating Committees (2019-2020)
  • Chair of the Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2017-2019)
  • Member of the IEEE Fellows Committee (2014-2016, 2021-2022)
  • Vice-Chair of the IEEE Fellows Committee (2023)
  • Chair of the IEEE Fellows Committee (2024-2025)
  • Member of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Strategic Planning Committee (2014-2016, 2021-2023)
  • Member of IEEE PRAC - Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee (2022-2025)
  • Member of IEEE Conferences Committee (2021)
  • Chair of the IEEE James Flanagan Award Committee (2013-2014)
  • Member of the Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2012-2013)

Total Publications: 427

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Thesis (Author)

  • High Quality Speech Coding at Medium-to-Low Bit Rates
    Isabel Trancoso, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Thesis, July 1987
  • Introdução à Criptografia de Dados
    Isabel Trancoso, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Thesis, April 1984

 

Total Supervisions: 84

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Graduation Theses

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Total Projects: 36

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Conferences

 

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