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Carlos Busso is an IEEE Fellow and ISCA Fellow. He is a Professor at Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, where he is also the director of the Multimodal Speech Processing (MSP) Laboratory.

Before joining CMU, he was a faculty member at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), where he served as an Assistant Professor (2009-2015), Associate Professor (2015-2020), and Full Professor (2020-2024) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.


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Research Interests

Carlos Busso's research focuses on human-centered multimodal machine intelligence and its applications in speech-based interfaces. His work explores cutting-edge topics, including:

  • Speech and multimodal processing
  • Affective computing
  • Social signal processing
  • Multimodal machine learning
  • Multimodal foundational models
  • Language technology for healthcare and mental health
  • Multimodal behavior generative models

The outcomes of his research have direct implications in many practical domains, including national security, health care, entertainment, transportation systems, and education.

Education

2008 - Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
2003 - M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Chile
2003 - ENG. in Electrical Engineering, University of Chile
2000 - B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Chile

Awards and Recognitions

  • Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2024
  • Jonsson School Faculty Research Award at UTD, Full Professor, 2024
  • AAAC Student Dissertation Award (student: Wei Cheng (Winston) Lin), 2024
  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023
  • ACM ICMI Community Service Award, 2023
  • SIPI Distinguished Alumni Award in the Mid-Career/Academia category, 2023
  • 2021 Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2022
  • Best of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Paper Collection award, 2021
  • Best Paper Award - AAAC ACII2017
  • Jonsson School Senior (Assoc. Professor) Research Award, 2016
  • IEEE Access Best Multimedia Contest Winner 2015, 2015
  • NSF CAREER award, 2015
  • Third prize IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award 2015 (student: Nanxiang Li)
  • ICMI Ten-Year Technical Impact Award - ACM ICMI 2014
  • Best Paper Award - IEEE ICME, 2011
  • First place, Classifier Sub-Challenge - Interspeech 2009 emotion challenge
  • Recognized as the best Electrical Engineering graduate in Chile by the Chilean School of Engineering in 2003

Most Relevant Professional Activities

  • General Co-Chair of Interspeech 2028
  • Program Co-Chair of Interspeech 2026
  • Senior Area Editor of IEEE/ACM Speech and Language Processing (Jan.2025-present)
  • Member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2025-2027)
  • Associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (Mar.2020-Dec.2024)
  • Senior editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (Aug. 2018-Jul. 2022)
  • Associated Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language(Mar.2016-Mar.2020)
  • Chair of the Steering Committee of ICMI (Jan. 2025-present)
  • Member of the Steering Committee of ICMI (Feb. 2020-present)
  • Blue Sky Paper Chair of ACM ICMI 2023
  • Publication Chair of ACM ICMI 2022
  • General Chair of ACM ICMI 2021
  • Program Chair of IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU2021)
  • Workshops/Tutorials Chair of FG 2020
  • Workshop Chairs of ACM ICMI 2019
  • Publication Chair of AAAC ACII 2019
  • General Chair of AAAC ACII 2017
  • Program Chair of VCIP 2017
  • Workshops/Tutorials Chair of FG 2017
  • Program Chair of ACM ICMI 2016
  • Publicity Chair of Interspeech 2016
  • Doctoral Spotlight Chair of ACM ICMI 2015
  • Workshop Chair of AAAC ACII 2015
  • Doctoral Consortium Chair of IEEE FG 2015
  • Publicity Chair of IEEE ICME 2014
  • Workshop Chair of ACM ICMI 2014
  • Doctoral Spotlight Chair of ACM ICMI 2013
  • Demonstrations and Retrieval Challenges Competition Chairs of ACM ICMR 2013
  • Doctoral Spotlight Chair of ACM ICMI 2012
  • NSF review panel (2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023)
  • Meta reviewer of ICASSP, 2023 and 2024
  • Area Chair of Interspeech in 2015, 2016, 2019, and 2025

Publications

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