Professional Activities

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External roles and responsibilities

• Elected Secretary from 2023 to 2025 of the ISCA Security and Privacy in Speech Communication SIG
• Specher des VDE ITG Fachbereichs "Dienste und Anwendungen" (1.1.23 bis 31.12.25)

Invited Talks

• 01/2024
  Data protection and pseudonymisation of speech data, Legislation and Regulations for Data Spaces, European Language Data Space, online

• 12/2023
  The interplay between signal processing and AI to archive enhanced and trustworthy interaction systems, University of Southampton, GB

• 10/2023
  Panelist at Kickoff-Event for an Inclusive lab „Werkstatt-Uni“, Topic „Inklusion an Hochschulen: aus der Werkstatt für behinderte Menschen in die Lehre?“, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg,

• 09/2023
  Mit und über KI kommunizieren Potenziale und Fallstricke im Umgang mit KI in der Kommunikationsarbeit, HKom23 - Jahrestagung Hochschulkommunikation, Magdeburg, Germany.

• 09/2023
  Was ist eigentlich künstliche Intelligenz und hilft mir ChatGPT bei Hausaufgaben?, Vortrag auf der KinderUni der OVGU, Magdeburg

• 04/2023
  Input-Talk Inter-Session Musiktherapie mit Sprachassistenten, Einsamkeit im Alter – Expert:innen-Workshop der Ruhr-Universität Bochum

• 11/2022
  Keynote-Talk on How to become a Juniorprofessor/Tenure Track Professor?, KHYS Postdoc Days 2022

• 05/2022
  Chatbasierte Agenten in und für die Hochschulen, Talk at the 16. Tagung der DFN-Nutzergruppe Hochschulverwaltung, Wismar Germany

• 02/2022
  AnonymPrevent – AI-based Improvement of Anonymity for Remote Assessment, Treatment and Prevention against Child Sexual Abuse, Talk at USP Day 2022

• 01/2022
  Influences of speech compression and room acoustics on affective speech characteristics , Talk at Quality and Usability Lab TUB

• 06/2021
  Speech Behavior Matters – Automatically Detect Device Directed Speech for the application of addressee-detection, Webinar for ISCA Special Interest Group “Security And Privacy In Speech Communication”

• 05/2021
  Integration von Voice-Services in die Studierendenkommunikation – Fallstudien aus Studierendensicht,Tagung der Nutzergruppe Hochschulverwaltung des DFN-Vereins

• 01/2020
  Differences in Speech Behavior for Human-Directed and Device Directed Speech for the application of Addressee-Detection – Gastvortrag an der Universität des Saarlandes Fachrichtung Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie, Saarbrücken

Editorships

• Computer Speech and Language, Special Issue "Security and Privacy in Speech Communication", Lead Guest Editor, link

• Frontiers Research Topic "Towards Omnipresent and Smart Speech Assistants", Lead Topic Editor, link

• EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Special Issue: "Security & Privacy in Speech Communication", Guest Editor, link

Conference and Workshop Organization

• 10/2024
  26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Workshop Co-Chair,link

• 05/2025
  LEGAL2024 Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies , Co-Chair, link

• 03/2024
  2. ITG-Workshop Sprachassistenten: Anwendungen, Implikationen, Entwicklungen, General Co-Chair, link

• 08/2023
  3rd SPSC Symposium , Satellite Event @ Interspeech 2023, General Co-Chair, link

• 07/2023
  What about the human in mobile and voice-based human-technology interaction?, 2nd Special Session @ Mobile 2023, General Co-Chair, link

• 03/2023
  Speech Processing, Anonymization and Machine Learning for Medical and Social Good, Strukturierte Sitzung auf der DAGA 2023, General Co-Chair, link

• 09/2022
  2nd ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication, an INTERSPEECH 2022 Satellite Event, General Chair, link

• 06/2022
  LEGAL2022 Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies at LREC 2020, General Co-Chair, link

• 11/2021
  ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication, General Chair, link

• 09/2021
  Workshop “AI-BATE”, Workshop on establishing An Interdisciplinary perspective on speech-BAsed Technology, online Workshop, General Chair, link

• 09/2021
  IEEE ICHMS 2021, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, Magdeburg, Publicity and PhD-Track Co-Chair, link

• 07/2021
  KM 2021, KM Conference 2021, Leipzig, Local Co-Chair. link

• 05/2020
  LEGAL 2020, LREC Workshop Legal and Ethical Issues Workshop – General Co-Chair

• 03/2020
  ESSV 2020, 31. Konferenz Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2020, Magdeburg, Germany, General Co-Chair, link

• 03/2020
  ITG-Workshop Sprachassistenten: Anwendungen, Implikationen, Entwicklungen, General Co-Chair, link

• 09/2018
  SPECOM 2018, 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer, Leipzig, Germany, Local Organizing Committee & Special Session Chair, link

• 09/2017
  ISSCT 2017, International Summer School on Companion Technology - Theory and Application In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Companion Technology, Ulm, Germany, link

• 11/2016
  ERM4CT 2016, 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies, Workshop at ICMI 2016, link

• 11/2015
  ERM4CT 2015, International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies, Workshop at ICMI 2015, link

• 08/2013
  T2CT 2013, 1st International Workshop on Techniques Towards Companion Technologies, Workshop at IVA 2013, link

Committee Participation

• regular Program Committee member for several conference (Interspeech, ICASSP, ACL, CUI)

• 09/2023
  Workshop KI-Bildung -- Ein Workshop zu Aus- und Weiterbildung über Künstliche Intelligenz im Rahmen der GI-Tagung INFORMATIK 2023, link

• 11/2021
  Advisory Committee Member FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference - Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction link

Awards

• Fellow & Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management, 2021.

• Research Paper Award: Ingo Siegert, Vered Silber Varod, Nehoray Carmi, Pawel Kamocki. Personal data protection and academia: GDPR issues and multi-modal data-collections "in the wild", KM Conference 2020, 1-3 July 2020

• Student Paper Award: Eran Raveh, Ingmar Steiner, Ingo Siegert, Iona Gesinger, Bernd Möbius. COMPARING PHONETIC CHANGES IN COMPUTER-DIRECTED AND HUMAN-DIRECTED SPEECH. Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2019: Tagungsband der 39. Konferenz, Dresden, 6.-8. März 2019 - Dresden: TUDpress, S. 42-49,

• Best Paper Award: Ronald Böck, Olga Egorow, Ingo Siegert und Andreas Wendemuth. “Comparative Study on Normalisation in Emotion Recognition from Speech”. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2017). Hrsg. von Patrick Horain, Catherine Achard und Malik Mallem. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, S. 189–201.

Reviewer

I am reviewing for most relevant conferences and journals in my area of research including Interspeech, ICASSP, ICMI, SpeCom, ICHMS, Speech Communication, Computer, Speech & Language, Expert Systems With Applications, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Pattern Recognition Letters, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Furthermore, I was scientific reviewer for the Dutch Research Council and the Latvian Council of Science and the DAAD.