Organization Co-Chairs
Mirco Ravanelli is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University, an Adjunct Professor at the Université de Montréal, and an Associate Member of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. His research focuses on deep learning and Conversational AI, with emphasis on speech processing, representation learning, multimodal Large Language Models, and interpretable AI. He has published over 100 papers in machine learning and speech venues. He is the founder of SpeechBrain, a widely used open-source toolkit for speech and conversational AI. He is currently serving as the chair of the Technical Committee 3 (TC3) on Neural Networks & Computational Intelligence of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Website: https://sites.google.com/site/mircoravanelli/