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Carlos Busso

Also known as Carlos A. Busso

Carlos Busso is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute whose research focuses on human-centered multimodal machine intelligence for speech-based interfaces. He earned electrical-engineering degrees in Chile and a PhD at USC, where he began affective-computing research on speech and facial analysis in 2003. He coauthored a 2004 ICMI paper on emotion recognition from facial expressions, speech, and multimodal information, and the 2008 IEMOCAP paper on an interactive emotional dyadic motion-capture database. At UT Dallas, he established the Multimodal Signal Processing Lab in 2009, received the ICMI Ten-Year Technical Impact Award in 2014, and served as general chair of ACII 2017. IEEE named him a Fellow in 2023, and ISCA named him a Fellow in March 2024; since 2025, he directs the Multimodal Speech Processing Lab at Carnegie Mellon.

Works
316
Citations
14,837
h-index
50
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2000–2008

    Electrical engineering degrees

    He earns electrical-engineering degrees at the University of Chile in 2000 and 2003, then completes a PhD at the University of Southern California in 2008.

  2. 2003–2004

    Affective research at USC

    At USC, he begins affective-computing research focused on speech and facial analysis in 2003. He coauthors an ICMI paper on emotion recognition from facial expressions, speech, and multimodal information in 2004.

  3. 2008–2009

    IEMOCAP and USC postdoc

    At USC's Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory, he works as a postdoctoral researcher in multimodal signal processing from 2008 to 2009. He and colleagues publish IEMOCAP, an interactive emotional dyadic motion-capture database, in 2008.

  4. 2009–2024

    Faculty at UT Dallas

    He joins UT Dallas as an assistant professor in 2009 and establishes the Multimodal Signal Processing Lab there in August 2009. In November 2014, he receives the ICMI Ten-Year Technical Impact Award and becomes an associate professor in 2015. In 2017, he serves as general chair of ACII and becomes a full professor in 2020, a role he holds through 2024.

  5. 2023–2024

    IEEE and ISCA fellowships

    IEEE elevates him to Fellow in 2023 for contributions to speech and multimodal affective signal processing and their technology applications. In March 2024, ISCA elevates him to Fellow for contributions to speech and multimodal affective signal processing and their technology applications.

  6. Since 2025

    Professor at Carnegie Mellon

    In January 2025, the MSP Lab moves to Carnegie Mellon, where he is a professor at the Language Technologies Institute and directs the group. Its research focuses on human-centered multimodal machine intelligence and its applications in speech-based interfaces.

Career

  1. Since 2025Carnegie Mellon UniversityProfessor
  2. 2009–2024University of Texas at DallasAssistant Professor, Associate Professor
  3. 2008–2009University of Southern CaliforniaPostdoctoral Researcher

Education

  1. 2008University of Southern CaliforniaPhD
  2. 2003University of ChileElectrical Engineering degree
  3. 2000University of ChileElectrical Engineering degree

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. IEMOCAP: interactive emotional dyadic motion capture database2008 · Language Resources and Evaluation · 3,843 citationsWith Shrikanth Narayanan
  2. The Geneva Minimalistic Acoustic Parameter Set (GeMAPS) for Voice Research and Affective Computing2015 · IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing · 1,812 citationsWith Björn Schuller, Elisabeth André and Shrikanth Narayanan
  3. Analysis of emotion recognition using facial expressions, speech and multimodal information2004 · International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces · 842 citationsWith Shrikanth Narayanan
  4. MSP-IMPROV: An Acted Corpus of Dyadic Interactions to Study Emotion Perception2016 · IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing · 390 citations
  5. Emotion recognition using a hierarchical binary decision tree approach2011 · Speech Communication · 355 citationsWith Shrikanth Narayanan

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  3. The median h-index is 54 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labsIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. The median h-index is 54 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.
  4. Stanford University trained or employed 26 of the 108 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. Stanford University trained or employed 26 of the 108 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and employment links for major-prize and best-paper winners.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. BUSSO, CARLOS - Electrical & Computer Engineering | The University of Texas at Dallas ece.utdallas.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Researcher Recognized for Speech Communication Contributions - Pulsar | The University of Texas at Dallas pulsar.utdallas.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. ICMI 2014 :: Awards icmi.acm.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. SAIL IEMOCAP: Interactive emotional dyadic motion capture database sail.usc.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Alumni - Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) sail.usc.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. Carlos Busso - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University lti.cmu.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  7. Home - Multimodal Speech Processing (MSP) Laboratory lab-msp.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  8. News - Multimodal Speech Processing (MSP) Laboratory lab-msp.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  9. IEEE Computer Society Announces 2023 Class of Fellows computer.org. Checked 18 October 2026.