Short bio

Shinji Watanabe is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. (Dr. Eng.) degrees from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He was a research scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, from 2001 to 2011, a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 2009, and a senior principal research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2012 to 2017. Before Carnegie Mellon University, he was an associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, from 2017 to 2020. His research interests include automatic speech recognition, speech enhancement, spoken language understanding, and machine learning for speech and language processing. He has published over 600 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and received several awards, including the best paper award from ISCA Interspeech in 2024. He has been a member of several technical committees, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC, Chair). He is an IEEE and ISCA Fellow.

Curriculum Vitae (updated March 2026)