Hansen To Receive ISCA Service Medal

Dr. John H.L. Hansen, professor of electrical engineering and the Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications at The University of Texas at Dallas, has been named the 2025 recipient of the ISCA Service Medal from the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Hansen, a past president of ISCA and the founder and director of the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS) in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, will be recognized at the organization’s annual conference in August in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

“I greatly appreciate this honor from an organization to which I have devoted so much work — and which has always provided me a great sense of fulfillment — with extensive opportunities for students, including many from CRSS-UTD as well as opportunities to support and promote the field of speech communications for all in our community,” he said. “I look forward to ISCA continuing to promote both science and technology artificial intelligence/machine learning research innovations in speech communications for all in our field.”

ISCA is the main research community for the fields of speech communication and processing, related speech and language technologies, phonetics and language. The Service Medal recognizes Hansen’s sustained contributions to education in speech technology and to expanding and supporting diversity of the community and the ISCA organization. The medal has been awarded on nine previous occasions, the first in 1999.

Hansen, who created the ISCA Diversity Committee, is working to establish a nonprofit foundation for ISCA to support the speech communications community, with special emphasis on students entering the speech communications field.

A version of this story appeared in News Center.