Scholar
Berrak Sisman
Google Scholar ID: inTpYLkAAAAJ
Assistant Professor (ECE & DSAI), Johns Hopkins University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,794
H-index
27
i10-index
43
Publications
20
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the NSF CAREER Award (2024), Amazon Faculty Award (2022), Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 2 Award (2021), and A*STAR Singapore International Graduate Award (2016 – 2020). She has been elected as a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2022 – 2024; 2025 – 2027) and is an Associate Editor at IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. She is one of the Technical Program Chairs for Interspeech 2026 and the General Co-chair for Interspeech 2028. Elected to the ISCA Board (2025–2028), where she oversees ISCA’s grants.
Research Experience
- Tenure-track faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas (2022–2024). Currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Education
- PhD from the National University of Singapore, advised by Haizhou Li; had visiting research appointments at the University of Edinburgh and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST, Japan).
Background
- Research interests include artificial intelligence, speech processing, machine learning, emotion, medical applications, and secure speech technology. She is a member of the JHU Center for Language and Speech Processing and the JHU Data Science and AI Institute, and is the Director of the Smile Lab at JHU.
Miscellany
- Her leadership extends beyond her research contributions, with active and notable involvement in organizing key conferences and technical committees.
