Carlos Busso
Professor, IEEE Fellow, ISCA Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University
School of Computer Science
Language Technologies Institute
Room GHC 5509
5000 Forbes Ave,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
PHONE: (412) 268-2794
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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