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Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- 2024 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society for pioneering contributions to speech, language and multimedia processing and affective computing and their human-centered societal applications”
- 2023 IEEE SPS Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for "contributions to spoken language processing technologies and their societal applications"
- 2023 ACM Fellow
- 2023 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History (for “Studying Large-Scale Behavioral Differences in Auschwitz-Birkenau with Simulation of Gendered Narratives” published in 2022 Digital Humanities Quarterly with Gabor Toth, Tim Hempel, Krishna Somandepalli)
- 2023 International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Medal for Scientific Achievement
- 2022 Member - European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2022 Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC)
- 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
- 2020 ACM ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award
- 2020 University Professor (“awarded very selectively by the President based on multi-disciplinary interests and significant accomplishments in several disciplines”), University of Southern California
- 2020 Senior Research Award, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
- 2019 USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship
- 2019 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
- 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Engineering—Guindy (India) [225th Anniversary Year]
- 2019 Best paper award at Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC) 2018 for "Distinguished Research on Digital Humanities”
- 2019 Co-Author, Best student paper shortlist (Tiantian Feng), ICASSP, 2019
- 2018 Winner, Gold-standard Emotion Sub-Challenge, ACM Audio-Visual
Emotion Challenge – AVEC’18 (with Brandon Booth, Karel Mundnich)
- 2018 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science for “sustained and
outstanding distinguished contributions to psychological science”
- 2018 ISCA Best Journal Paper Award (for Li, Han, Narayanan “Automatic speaker age and gender recognition using acoustic and prosodic level information fusion” published in Computer Speech and Language 2013)
- 2018 VAJRA Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras
- 2018 Senior Research Award, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
- 2017 Willard R. Zemlin Lecture, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- 2017 Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
- 2016 Fellow of International Speech Communication Association for “contributions to speech communication science and technologies and their human-centered engineering applications.”
- 2016 Co-Author, Best student paper award, Interspeech (with Tanner Sorensen)
- 2016 Co-Author, Best student paper award, ICASSP (with Zhaojun Yang)
- 2016 Co-Author, Winning paper on the sentiment analysis twitter challenge SemEval/NAACL 2016
- 2016 Google Faculty Research Award
- 2015 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award, Engineers Council
- 2015 Distinguished Lecturer, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
- 2015 Interspeech Computational Paralinguistics Challenge Award, Nativeness Degree Estimation in Speech
- 2014 Ten-year technical impact award, ACM International Conf Multimodal Interfaces, 2014
- 2014 Co-author on two Northern Digital Excellence Award Papers, International Seminar on Speech Production’14 (with V. Ramnarayanan and with J. Kim)
- 2014 Interspeech Paralinguistics Challenge Award, Cognitive Load (with M. Segbroeck, C. Vaz, R. Travadi, J. Kim, M. Black, A. Potamianos)
- 2013 Interspeech Paralinguistics Challenge Award, Social Signals (with R. Gupta, K.Audhkhasi, S. Lee)
- 2012 Interspeech Speaker Trait Challenge Award, Pathology (with J. Kim, N. Kumar, A. Tsiartas, M. Li)
- 2011 UCLA School of Engineering, Alumni Professional Achievement Award
- 2011 Interspeech’11 Speaker State Challenge Award (with D. Bone, M. Black, M. Li, A. Metallinou, S. Lee)
- 2010 Best Paper at InterSpeech 2010 (for Black et al, “Automatic Classification of Married Couples’ Behavior using Audio Features”)
- 2010 IBM Faculty Award
- 2010 Distinguished Faculty Service Award
- 2010 AAAS Fellow, for “outstanding contributions to human communication science and technologies and their applications to engineering systems development.”
- 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (co-recipient, Chul Min Lee)
- 2010-2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer
- 2009 IEEE Fellow
- 2008 IBM Faculty Award
- 2008 Okawa Foundation Award
- Viterbi Professorship of Engineering. Shri Narayanan appointed as the first holder of the Viterbi Professorship in Engineering, April 2007.
- April 2006 Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring
- 2006 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (co-recipient Alex Potamianos, TU Crete)
- 2005 Fellow of Acoustical Society of America (for contributions to speech production and imaging)
- 2005 Acoustical Society of America, “Hot topics” invited speaker (speech production)
- Northrop-Grumman High Visibility Research Award USC Electrical Engineering, 2005
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research Fellow,2003
- USC Viterbi School of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Award, 2003 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty, 2003
- NSF Career Award, 2002
- Zumberge Interdisciplinary Grant
