Piero Cosi

Born in Padua, in 1956. He received the Degree on Electronic Engineering from Padua University in 1981. He is currently the Coordinator of  the “Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione – UOS of Padova (ex IFD “Institute of Phonetics and Dialectology) of the National Research Council (CNR),  where he works as a senior speech technology researcher. He is author or co-author of more than 100 papers published in Books, International Journals and Conferences, and he is leading, with the role of Scientific Responsible of Operative Unit, many International, European and Italian Projects. His scientific activity has been mainly concerned with: signal processing, speech analysis, auditory modeling, automatic speech recognition, neural networks, and emotional text-to-speech and facial animation. He is a member of ISCA, IEEE and AIA and is the President of AISV (Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce), the Regional Italian Speech Communication SIG Group of ISCA, since 2003. He has been the Conference Chair of INTERSPEECH 2011 – 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, 27-31 August 2011.