Each year, Google honors cutting-edge academic research at leading research institutions around the world with its Faculty Research Award. This year, 175 projects from 78 research institutions are being funded – most of them universities. Of the 35 non-American winners, four are from German institutions: In addition to the University of Bremen, two TU Munich projects received awards and one RWTH Aachen University project.
Cutting-Edge Research in the Field of Speech Recognition
The award is intended to promote cutting-edge research in the disciplines of computer science, engineering, and related fields. Tanja Schultz’s “EMG-to-Speech” project is one of five projects selected worldwide in the field of “Speech.” The spokesperson of the high-profile area “Minds, Media, Machines” (together with Professor Michael Beetz) was already awarded the 2012 Technical Communication Research Award of the Alcatel Lucent Foundation for her work in this field. For her contributions to multilingual speech recognition and biosignal processing, Tanja Schultz was recently appointed a fellow of the IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology. She plans to dedicate the $80,000 Google award money to furthering research in the field of silent speech communication.
“The University of Bremen is delighted for Tanja Schultz to have been recognized with this award,” said Professor Rolf Drechsler, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. “We want to re-enter the ranks of German Universities of Excellence, and to do so we need two scientific Clusters of Excellence. Currently, with the MARUM marine institute we have only one. The success of Michael Beetz, who has just been named one of the best minds in robotics, and this award of Tanja Schultz demonstrate the potentials of computer sciences at the University of Bremen, which also strengthens the high-profile area Minds, Media, Machines.”
Spokesperson of the High-Profile Area Minds, Media, Machines
Since 2015, Tanja Schultz holds a professorship at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bremen, where she heads the Cognitive Systems Lab. In her research activities, the computer scientist focuses on cognitive technical systems for human-machine communication based on the interpretation of speech and biosignals. For this purpose, she links machine learning methods with innovations in biosignal processing, such as in the silent speech communication and brain-to-text systems. Tanja Schultz together with Professor Michael Beetz is the spokesperson of the University of Bremen’s high-profile area Minds, Media, Machines.
Further Information:
Contact:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tanja Schultz
Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL)
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-64270
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