We are glad to announce the program for the SPSC Symposium, all times are CET:
PhD track
4:00pm | Workshop on scientific writing and publishing with Monica Broido |
5:30pm | Panel discussion on career paths inside and outside academia with Alice Coucke, Nick Gaubitch, Bhiksha Raj, and Adriana Stan |
7:15pm | PhD topic presentations and social event where your ideas and ongoing research can be shared and discussed |
4:00pm | Welcome by the organizers |
4:30pm | Keynote 1 From Minsky's Society of Mind to a Society of Minds? Artificial Intelligence, Language Models and Agency with Joscha Bach Abstract: Artificial Intelligence is mostly concerned with creating intelligent systems by imposing order on mindless parts. Marvin Minsky's seminal book "Society of Mind" suggests that a mind is composed of a multitude of interacting agents, coordinating to create the overall functionality of intelligent agency. If we extend this paradigm beyond individual minds, we are entering the realm of collective, social agency, and can discuss about ethics based on shared purposes. |
5:30pm | Break |
6:00pm | Poster Session 1Privacy and security using speech and speaker recognition techniques
Speech privacy, speaker anonymization and legal regulations
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8:00pm | Social Event |
4:30pm | Keynote 2 Racial Disparities in Automated Speech Recognition with Allison Koenecke Abstract: Automated speech recognition (ASR) systems are now used in a variety of applications to convert spoken language to text, from virtual assistants, to closed captioning, to hands-free computing. By analyzing a large corpus of sociolinguistic interviews with white and African American speakers, we demonstrate large racial disparities in the performance of popular commercial ASR systems developed by Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. Our results point to hurdles faced by African Americans in using increasingly widespread tools driven by speech recognition technology. More generally, our work illustrates the need to audit emerging machine-learning systems to ensure they are broadly inclusive. See more at fairspeech.stanford.edu. |
5:30pm | Break |
6:00pm | Poster Session 2Privacy and security using speech and speaker recognition techniques
Speech privacy, speaker anonymization and legal regulations
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8:00pm | Workshop How to collect speech data with human rights in mind with Tom Backström |
4:30pm | Keynote 3 Exploiting the Gaps Between Human and Machine Understanding of Audio: Frameworks, Attacks, and Defenses with Patrick Traynor Abstract: Modern machine learning techniques now enable a wide range of voice-driven systems. Such systems not only power our personal assistants and transcribe our text message, but also enable the creation of convincing virtual avatars, assist in air traffic control, and give voice to those who can no longer speak. However, the algorithms underlying these systems process and "understand" audio far differently that humans do, creating substantial vulnerabilities. In this talk, I discuss a range of such attacks and how they target real systems, a shared framework by which these attacks can be compared, and how such vulnerabilities might actually serve as the basis of stronger systems. |
5:30pm | Break |
6:00pm | Panel Discussion Talking with Industry: What are real-life challenges for privacy and security in speech communication? with Birgit Brüggemeier Panelist: Björn W. Schuller (Audeering), Raffaele Tavarone (Sonos), Luuk van Hoogstraten (Genius Voice) |
7:00pm | Closing Ceremony |
All time are given with respect to the CET zone. You can use a time zone converter to check the times in your time zone.
Joscha Bach, PhD, is a cognitive scientist and AI researcher with a focus on computational models of cognition and neuro-symbolic AI. He has taught and worked in AI research at Humboldt University of Berlin, the Institute for Cognitive Science in Osnabrück, the MIT media lab, the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and is currently a principal AI researcher at Intel Labs, California. His tentative talk is entitled: From Minsky's Society of Mind to a Society of Minds? Artificial Intelligence, Language Models and Agency.
Allison Koenecke is a postdoc at Microsoft Research in the Machine Learning and Statistics group, and starting Summer 2022 will be an Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell University. Her research primarily spans two domains: algorithmic fairness in online services, and causal inference in public health. Previously, she received her PhD from Stanford's Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, and her Bachelor's from MIT in Mathematics with Computer Science.
Patrick Traynor is the John and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the security of mobile systems, with a concentration on telecommunications infrastructure and mobile devices. His research has uncovered critical vulnerabilities in cellular networks, developed techniques to find credit card skimmers that have been adopted by law enforcement and created robust approaches to detecting and combating Caller-ID scams. He is also interested in Internet security and the systems challenges of applied cryptography.
He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2010, was named a Sloan Fellow in 2014, a Fellow of the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion in 2016 and a Kavli Fellow in 2017. Professor Traynor earned his Ph.D and M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008 and 2004, respectively, and his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Richmond in 2002. He is also a co-founder of Pindrop Security and Skim Reaper.
On November 9, 2021 we invite you to a dedicated event for PhD students at the SPSC Symposium 2021.
We are glad to announce a preliminary program for the PhD track:
4:00pm | Workshop on scientific writing and publishing with Monica Broido |
5:30pm | Panel discussion on career paths inside and outside academia with Alice Coucke, Nick Gaubitch, Bhiksha Raj, and Adriana Stan |
7:15pm | PhD topic presentations and social event where your ideas and ongoing research can be shared and discussed |
All time are given with respect to the CET zone. You can use a time zone converter to check the times in your time zone.
You can register for the PhD track with the registration for the Symposium.
Anyone interested in receiving regular updates on the PhD event, can register for the PhD mailing list.
Ingo SIEGERT, Otto von Guericke, Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Karla MARKERT, Fraunhofer AISEC, Germany
Birgit BRÜGGEMEIER, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
Mircea GIURGIU, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adrienne MANNOV, Aarhus University, Denmark
Adriana STAN, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adriana STAN, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Beáta LŐRINCZ, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Ingo SIEGERT, Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Yefim SHULMAN, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Yefim SHULMAN, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Beáta LŐRINCZ, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Karla MARKERT, Fraunhofer AISEC, Germany
Beáta LŐRINCZ, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Yefim SHULMAN, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tom BÄCKSTRÖM, Aalto University, Finland
Jean-François BONSATRE, Avignon Université, France
Astrid CAROLUS, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
Mads Græsbøll CHRISTENSEN, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
Nicholas EVANS, Eurecom, France
Catherine JASSERAND, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Belgium
Els KINDT, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Belgium
Dorothea KOLOSSA, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Yair LEVY, Nova Southeastern University, USA
Andreas NAUTSCH, Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France
Oliver NIEBUHR, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Rainer MARTIN, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Sebastian MÖLLER, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Bhiksha RAJ, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Stephan SIGG, Aalto University, Finland
Korbinian RIEDHAMMER, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, Germany
Isabel TRANCOSO, INESC-ID/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Emmanuel VINCENT, Inria Nancy, France
Carolin WIENRICH, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany