Lori Lamel
Also known as Lori Faith Lamel
As of October 2026, Lori Lamel is a senior research scientist at CNRS, and her work centers on automatic speech recognition. She completed an MIT doctorate in 1988 on knowledge used in spectrogram reading. In October 1991, she joined CNRS as a permanent researcher at LIMSI. The International Speech Communication Association named her a fellow in 2015, and the IEEE named her a Fellow in 2021 for contributions to automatic speech recognition. Her 2014 Interspeech paper addressed speech processing in a multi-lingual context.
Timeline
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1980
Electrical engineering degrees at MIT
In 1980, she earns bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, as a co-op student with Bell Labs.
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1988
An MIT doctorate on spectrogram reading
In 1988, MIT grants her a Ph.D. for a thesis on knowledge used in spectrogram reading.
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October 1991
A permanent post at LIMSI
She joins CNRS as a permanent researcher at LIMSI in October 1991.
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1994–1998
On the IEEE Speech Technical Committee
From 1994 to 1998, she sits on the IEEE Speech Technical Committee.
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2014
A paper on multilingual speech
In 2014, her paper 'Language diversity: speech processing in a multi-lingual context' appears in the Interspeech proceedings.
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2015
Named an ISCA Fellow
The International Speech Communication Association names her a fellow in 2015, for contributions to human-machine interaction via multilingual speech processing.
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2021
An IEEE Fellow for speech recognition
The IEEE names her a Fellow in 2021 for contributions to automatic speech recognition.
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As of October 2026
A senior research post at CNRS
She is a senior research scientist at CNRS.
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