Keynote speakers
It is our pleasure to announce the keynote speakers invited to the 3rd Advanced Voice Function Asssement International Workshop:
- Prof. Osamu Fujimura
Prof. Fujimura is Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He established and directed the Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics at the University of Tokyo. In 1965, he led the speech section of the Acoustical Society of Japan, receiving its Award for Distinguished Service in 1999. He collaborated for four years with the research laboratory in electronics at MIT and for two years with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. For was a director at Bell Laboratories (AT&T) for fifteen years, serving in the Departments of Linguistics and Speech Analysis and Artificial Intelligence Research. He was professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University for fifteen years.
- Prof. Philippe Dejonckere
Philippe H. DeJonckere, M.D., Ph.D., is the chairman of COST-Action 2103, and chairman of the European Laryngological Research Group (ELRG) incorporated within the European Laryngological Society (ELS). This group of clinical researchers sought out a cooperation with engineers and physicists specialized in signal processing and modeling, and this resulted in COST Action 2103 "Advanced Voice Function Assessment". P. H. DeJonckere is ENT-physician / Phoniatrician, also certified specialist in Occupational Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine and Forensic Medicine. He is currently full professor at the Utrecht University (NL), in charge of the Master programme "Clinical Language, Speech & Hearing Sciences", guest professor at the Catholic University of Leuven (B) and visiting professor at the University of Lille (F). He also is appointed as General Coordinator of the Scientific Council at the Federal Institute of Occupational Diseases in Brussels. He is past-president of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri and of the Dutch Society of Voice, Speech & Language Pathology, member of the editorial board of 11 scientific journals, and authored 7 books, 139 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 69 chapters in books.