Organizing Committee

General chairs

• John Hershey, MERL
• Tomohiro Nakatani, NTT

Technical chairs

• Michiel Bacchiani, Google
• Reinhold Haeb Umbach, Paderborn University
• Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
• Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
• Koichi Shinoda, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University

Regional publicity chairs

• Jim Glass, MIT
• Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore
• Hermann Ney, RWTH

Finance chair

• Atsushi Nakamura, Nagoya City University

Sponsorship chairs

• Chiori Hori, MERL
• Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM
• Emmanuel Vincent, Inria

Publication chair

• Marc Delcroix, NTT

Panel and invited speaker chairs

• Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, Brno University of Technology
• Geoff Zweig, MSR
• Tomoko Matsui, Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Challenge and demonstration chairs

• Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
• Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh
• Tomoki Toda, Nagoya University
• Jonathan Le Roux, MERL

Advisory board

• Jan ‘Honza’ Cernocky, Brno University of Technology
• Giuseppe (Pino) Di Fabbrizio, Amazon
• Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University

Local Arrangements

• Keisuke Kinoshita, NTT
• Masami Akamine, Toshiba