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Mari Ostendorf joined the University of Washington's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in 1999. She holds the position of Endowed Professor focusing on System Design Methodologies and is also an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Linguistics. Ostendorf has been recognized as a Fellow of IEEE, ISCA, and ACL, and is an Australian-American Fulbright Scholar. She is a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. With over 290 published papers on various topics within speech and language processing, she has contributed significantly to the field and was awarded the 2018 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. Her research primarily explores dynamic models for understanding and generating speech and text in multi-party contexts, with applications ranging from education to clinical settings and scientific information extraction.
University of Washington • Seattle, WA
Joined the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and contributed to research and teaching.
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