About me
Prof. Mikko Kurimo (D.Sc.Tech. 1997 Helsinki University of Technology) is a Full Professor of Speech and Language Processing and the head of the speech recognition research group at Aalto University. He has supervised 18 doctoral theses and 79 master’s thesis and co-ordinated several large national (Academy of Finland and Business Finland) and international (EC and Nordforsk) research projects.
His research is focused on machine learning in speech and language technology and he has published 245 peer reviewed international conference proceedings and journal papers. His group’s research results have been widely utilized via their open source tools and his achievements include, e.g., winning the MGB-3 challenge for building low-resourced dialect ASR system and Compare 2022 stuttering and non-verbal vocalizations challenges and Compare 2023 spoken emotions challenge.