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Speech and Audio Processing

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Sanyuan Chen
Fairchild Semiconductor (United States)
2
Z. B. M. D. Shah
Taylor's University
3
Zhenzi Weng
Queen Mary University of London
4
Aatka Faryal Riaz
Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste
5
Pingchuan Ma
Imperial College London
6
Kun Zhou
Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
7
Sean L. Metzger
Neurological Surgery
8
Hemlata Tak
EURECOM
9
Hang Zheng
Zhejiang University
10
Pierre-Amaury Grumiaux
École Centrale de Nantes

Rising Stars Papers

1
Enhancements in Immediate Speech Emotion Detection: Harnessing Prosodic and Spectral Characteristics
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT)|2024
1.7k cit.
2
Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers
IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing|2025
89 cit.
3
Deep Tensor 2-D DOA Estimation for URA
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing|2024
21 cit.
4
Semantic MIMO Systems for Speech-to-Text Transmission
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications|2024
17 cit.
5
Robust Semantic Communications for Speech Transmission
Unknown Journal|2025
5 cit.
6
Phonetic Enhanced Language Modeling for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Unknown Journal|2024
2 cit.
7
Does VLM Classification Benefit from LLM Description Semantics?
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence|2025
1 cit.
8
BOSON <sup>−1</sup> : Understanding and Enabling Physically-Robust Photonic Inverse Design with Adaptive Variation-Aware Subspace Optimization
Unknown Journal|2025
1 cit.
9
Large Model Empowered Streaming Speech Semantic Communications
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters|2025
1 cit.
10
A Study on the Arrangement of Actuators and Speaker Zones of the Panel Speaker
Unknown Journal|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Ruoming Pang
Google (United States)
2
Adnan
Unknown
3
Jitong Chen
East China University of Science and Technology
4
Nobukatsu Hojo
NTT (Japan)
5
Tsubasa Ochiai
NTT (Japan)
6
Hung-yi Lee
National Taiwan University
7
Tomoki Hayashi
Tohoku University
8
Chenliang Xu
University of Rochester
9
Rafay Azmat Qureshi
Unknown
10
Jinyu Li
Microsoft (United States)

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Enhancements in Immediate Speech Emotion Detection: Harnessing Prosodic and Spectral Characteristics
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT)|2024
1.7k cit.
2
Recent Advances in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition
APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing|2022
366 cit.
3
Can Large Language Models Be an Alternative to Human Evaluations?
Unknown Journal|2023
260 cit.
4
Distilhubert: Speech Representation Learning by Layer-Wise Distillation of Hidden-Unit Bert
ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)|2022
107 cit.
5
Video Understanding With Large Language Models: A Survey
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2025
65 cit.
6
Meta-TTS: Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Speaker Adaptive Text-to-Speech
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing|2022
54 cit.
7
A Large-Scale Evaluation of Speech Foundation Models
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing|2024
41 cit.
8
Meta Learning for Natural Language Processing: A Survey
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies|2022
39 cit.
9
StyleT2I: Toward Compositional and High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Synthesis
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
38 cit.
10
AdapterBias: Parameter-efficient Token-dependent Representation Shift for Adapters in NLP Tasks
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022|2022
35 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
DeLiang Wang
The Ohio State University
2
Sanjeev Khudanpur
Johns Hopkins University
3
Brian Kingsbury
IBM (United States)
4
Chin‐Hui Lee
Georgia Institute of Technology
5
Haizhou Li
Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data
6
Björn W. Schuller
Imperial College London
7
Saul A. Teukolsky
California Institute of Technology
8
Geoffrey E. Hinton
University of Toronto
9
Shrikanth Narayanan
University of Southern California
10
Jesper Jensen
Aalborg University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
Communications of the ACM|2017
75.7k cit.
2
Visualizing Data using t-SNE
Journal of Machine Learning Research|2008
35.7k cit.
3
Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks
Science|2006
21k cit.
4
A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets
Neural Computation|2006
16.4k cit.
5
Rectified Linear Units Improve Restricted Boltzmann Machines
International Conference on Machine Learning|2010
13.2k cit.
6
Savitzky-Golay Smoothing Filters
Computers in Physics|1990
11.8k cit.
7
Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition: The Shared Views of Four Research Groups
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine|2012
10.3k cit.
8
Speech recognition with deep recurrent neural networks
Unknown Journal|2013
8.8k cit.
9
Librispeech: An ASR corpus based on public domain audio books
Unknown Journal|2015
6k cit.
10
Recurrent neural network based language model
Unknown Journal|2010
5.4k cit.

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