- Silvia Alma Piazzolla. degree obtained: Laura Magistrale – LM, Università di Trento (Italy). Dissertation: “Gender bias in commercial MT systems: a comparative evaluation on the MuST-SHE benchmark”, 2022
- Andrea Piergentili , degree obtained: Laurea Magistrale – LM, Lingue e Culture per la Comunicazione e Cooperazione Internazionale, Università dell’Aquila (Italy). Dissertation: “Creation of a multilingual benchmark for the evaluation of gender neutral automatic translation”, 2022
- Francesca Onorato, degree obtained: Laurea in Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy), Dissertation “Segmentation Strategies for End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation”, 2021
- Antonio Vespoli, degree obtained: Laurea in Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy), Dissertation: “Data-to-Text: Generating Forecast Bulletins from Raw Data”, 2020
- Andrea Alfieri, degree obtained: Master of Arts – MA, Specialized Translation, U. Bologna-Forlì, 2020
- Nicholas Ruiz, degree obtained: European Master Erasmus Mundus Language & Communication Technologies, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2011.
- Diego Pineda, degree obtained: European Master in Language and Speech, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2006. Dissertation: “A Punctuation Detector in Speech Recognition”. Now with SOGETI, Barcelona, Spain.
- Florian Hönig, degree obatined: Master in Electronic Engineering, Erlangen-Nuremberg University, 2005. Dissertation: “Modifications of Perceptual Linear Prediction and the Mel-Frequency Cepstrum”. Now PhD student at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany.
- Michele Vescovi, degree obtained: degree in informatics, U. Trento, Mar 2003. Dissertation: “Algoritmi per la segmentazione audio basati sul criterio di informazione bayesiano: analisi, implementazione e sperimentazione”. Now PhD Student at U. of Trento.
- Erwin Leeuwis, degree obtained: degree in informatics, U. Twente, Feb 2003. Dissertation: “A Language Model for an ASR System for Lectures”. Now at Capgemini, Utrecht Area, Netherlands.
- Nicola Bertoldi, degree obtained: Laurea degree in mathematics, U. Trento, 2000. Dissertation: “Analysis and implementation of Statistical Models for POS tagging”. Now staff researcher at FBK-irst.
- Christian Girardi, degree obtained: degree in informatics, U. Trento, 2000. Dissertation: “Sviluppo di un’interfaccia grafica per un sistema di comunicazione vocale multilingua”. Now at FBK-irst.
Our #PickOfTheWeek by @sarapapi: "RASST: Fast Cross-modal Retrieval-Augmented #Simultaneous #Speech #Translation" by Jiaxuan Luo, @siqi_ouyang, and @lileics (2026).
#RAG #SpeechTech
Very interesting new paper about combining Simultaneous Speech Translation and RAG to improve translation quality! Check it out: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22777
#Speech #SpeechTech #Translation #RAG
Takeaway from our #2 DVPS consortium meeting: scaling with a few modalities won’t unlock the next leap. Progress we need to push in Europe now requires grounding intelligence in interaction and real-time feedback; we’re working on building the most promising MMFM architecture.
Oggi 11 febbraio è la Giornata Internazionale delle Donne e delle Ragazze nella Scienza.
Un’occasione per FBK di condividere e rilanciare il proprio impegno per l’uguaglianza di genere attraverso il Gender Equality Plan 2025-2028, recentemente approvato
https://magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/rinnovato-e-rafforzato-limpegno-verso-luguaglianza-di-genere-in-fbk/
🚀 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: @iwslt Instruction Following 2026
Build general-purpose instruction-following speech models for 🌍 EN/DE/IT/ZH languages!
📅 Eval: 𝗔𝗽𝗿 1 | Submit: 𝗔𝗽𝗿 15
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#IWSLT2026 #SpeechAI #MultimodalAI