Tanja Schultz
{{Short description|German computer scientist}}
Tanja Schultz is a German computer scientist specializing in speech processing. She is professor of computer science at the University of Bremen and the former president of the International Speech Communication Association.{{cite web|url=https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/csl/institute/director|title=Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tanja Schultz|publisher=University of Bremen|accessdate=8 January 2020}}
Education and career
Schultz was a student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where she earned a diploma in 1995 and a doctorate in 2000. Her dissertation, Multilingual Speech Recognition, was jointly supervised by Alex Waibel and Dirk Van Compernolle.{{mathgenealogy|id=242845}} She was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University from 2000 to 2007 and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2015 before moving to the University of Bremen in 2015.
Recognition
In 2002, Schultz was part of a group of eight researchers who won the Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence for their work on automatic speech translation.{{cite web|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/people/achievements/newell/newellmedal_winners|title=The Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence – Previous Winners|accessdate=2020-01-12}}
Schultz was named a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2016 "for contributions to multilingual speech recognition and biosignal processing for human-machine interaction".{{cite web|url=https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/honors/fellows?id=182|title=Fellows 2016|publisher=International Speech Communication Association|accessdate=8 January 2020}} She is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.{{cite web|url=https://members.euro-acad.eu/|title=European Academy of Sciences and Arts Database Search|publisher=European Academy of Sciences and Arts|accessdate=8 January 2020}}
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Category:German computer scientists
Category:Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Category:Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Category:Academic staff of the University of Bremen
Category:Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts