Skip to content
Awards of Students
- First Prize and Winner 5 minute Ph.D Thesis (5MPT) Presentation, Gauri Deshpande, Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P), DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India, 06.-10.07.2024.
- Best Poster Award, Gauri Deshpande, Björn Schuller, “Decoding Biopsychology Through Speech-Breathing Patterns”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025), Satellite Event, IEEE, Hyderabad, India, 02.04.2024.
- Forbes China “100 Outstanding Overseas Returnees”, Kun Qian, Forbes China, China, 11.2023.
- Imperial College London Faculty of Engineering’s Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) of the Year Award – Runner-up, Harry Coppock, London, UK, 09.2023.
- Imperial College London’s annual Award for Well-Being for Contributions to the Improvement and Promotion of Well-being in the Department of Computing, Harry Coppock, London, UK, 06.2023.
- 7. Münchner Digital Innovation Award (1. Place), Lukas Stappen with his Start-Up Recoro UG, “KI-basierter Ansatz für B2B Sales Video Calls”, DIGICON 2022, Digitale Stadt München e.V., Munich, Germany, 16.11.2022.
- Award 3rd Imperial Computing Conference (ICC) – Summer 2022, PhD Conference Poster Competition, Harry Coppock, London, UK, 01.07.2022.
- Honourable Mention AAAC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (1 of 2), Jing Han, “Automated Deep Audiovisual Emotional Behaviour Analysis in the Wild”, AAAC, 2021.
- Student Travel Grant, George Rizos: George Rizos, Jenna Lawson, Zhuoda Han, Duncan Butler, James Rosindell, Krystian Mikolajczyk, Cristina Banks-Leite, Björn Schuller, “Multi- Attentive Detection of the Spider Monkey Whinny in the (Actual) Wild”, 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2021), ISCA, Brno, Czechia, 30.08.-03.09.2021.
- Student Travel Grant, Pascal Hecker: Pascal Hecker, Florian Pokorny, Katrin Bartl-Pokorny, Uwe Reichel, Zhao Ren, Simone Hantke, Florian Eyben, Dagmar Schuller, Bernd Arnrich, Björn Schuller, “Speaking Corona? Human and Machine Recognition of COVID-19 from Voice”, 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2021), ISCA, Brno, Czechia, 30.08.-03.09.2021.
- Student Travel Grant, Panagiotis Tzirakis: Panagiotis Tzirakis, Alexander Shiarella, Robert Ewers, Björn Schuller: “Computer Audition for Continuous Rainforest Occupancy Monitoring: The Case of Bornean Gibbons’ Call Detection”, 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2020), ISCA, Shanghai, China, 25.-29.10.2020.
- Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2020, Maximilian Schmitt, Physiological Measurement, IOP Publishing, 2020.
- Best Reviewer Award, Maximilian Schmitt, 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2020, ISMIR, virtual, 11.-16.10.2020.
- Zhejiang Lab’s International Talent Fund for Young Professionals, Project HANAMI, Zhejiang Lab, Kun Qian, P.R. China, 2019. (acceptance rate < 15%)
- NASA Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) Award, Yue Zhang-Weninger, 2019.
- FY2019 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Kun Qian, 2018. (acceptance rate <10%)
- Women in MIR (WiMIR) Travel Grant, Emilia Parada-Cabailero: Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Anton Batliner, Björn Schuller: “A Diplomatic Edition of Il Lauro Secco: Ground Truth for OMR of White Mensural Notation”, 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2019, ISMIR, Delft, The Netherlands, 04.-08.11.2019.
- Student Travel Grant, Jing Han: Jing Han, Zixing Zhang, Maximilian Schmitt, Zhao Ren, Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller: “Bags in Bag: Generating Context-Aware Bags for Tracking Emotions from Speech”, INTERSPEECH 2018, 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Hyderabad, India, 02.-06.09.2018.
- Student Travel Grant, Jing Han: Jing Han, Zixing Zhang, Zhao Ren, Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller: “Towards Conditional Adversarial Training for Prediciting Emotions from Speech”, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018), IEEE, Calgary, Canada, 15.-20.04.2018.
- Student Travel Grant, Panagiotis Tzirakis: Panagiotis Tzirakis, Jiehao Zhang, Björn Schuller: “End-to-End Speech Emotion Recognition using Deep Neural Networks”, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018), IEEE, Calgary, Canada, 15.-20.04.2018.
- Women in Machine Learning Travel Grant, Yue Zhang: Yue Zhang, Björn Schuller: “Towards Human-Like Holistic Machine Perception of Affective Social Behaviour”, 12th Workshop on Women in Machine Learning (WiML 2017), satellite event of NIPS 2017, Long Beach, CA, 04.-07.12.2017.
- Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology Travel Fund, Sandra Ottl: Sandra Ottl, Nicholas Cummins, Shahin Amiriparian, Björn Schuller: “Towards Big data multimodal feature fusion for sentiment analysis”, Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology (YFRSW 2017), satellite event of Interspeech 2017, ISCA, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017.
- Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision, George Trigeorgis, Google, 2017.
- ACM ICMI 2016 Student Travel Support (60000 JPY), Xinzhou Xu: Xinzhou Xu, Jun Deng, Maryna Gavryukova, Zixing Zhang, Li Zhao, Björn Schuller: “Multiscale Kernel Locally Penalised Discriminant Analysis Exemplified by Emotion Recognition in Speech”, 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), ACM, Tokyo, Japan, 12.-16.11.2016.
- MediaEval 2015 Student Travel Grant, George Trigeorgis, MediaEval Workshop 2015, satellite event of Interspeech 2015, Wurzen, Germany, 14.-15.09.2015.
- 2nd Place InnoApp 2015 competition, Irman Abdic: “Birdly”, European Young Innovator Forum (eyIF), Huawei, 05.02.2015.
- Young Investigator Award, Eduardo Coutinho, International Neural Network Society (ISNN), 2014.
- Fachschaftspreis für beste Lehre (best lecture), Florian Eyben, Übung “Pattern Recognition”, Fachschaft Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Technische Universität München, Germany, July 2008.