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Paavo Alku received his M.Sc., Lic.Tech., and Dr.Sc.(Tech) degrees from Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, in 1986, 1988, and 1992, respectively. He was an assistant professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1993, and an assistant professor and professor at the University of Turku, Finland, from 1994 to 1999. He is currently a professor of speech communication technology at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. His research interests include analysis and parameterization of speech production, statistical parametric speech synthesis, spectral modelling of speech, speech-based biomarking of human health, and cerebral processing of speech. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 200 peer-reviewed conference papers. He is an Associate Editor of J. Acoust. Soc. Am. He served as an Academy Professor assigned by the Academy of Finland in 2015-2019. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of ISCA.
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Doctoral degree, Engineering and Technology, Helsinki University of Technology
Award Date: 7 Apr 1992
Licentiate degree, Engineering and Technology, Helsinki University of Technology
Award Date: 8 Mar 1988
Master's degree, Engineering and Technology, Helsinki University of Technology
Award Date: 25 Feb 1986
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Mittapalle, K., Alku, P., Javanmardi, F., Kodali, M., Pohjalainen, H., Kadiri, S. & Tirronen, S.
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2024
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Juvela, L., Airaksinen, M., Bäckström, T., Alku, P., Nonavinakere Prabhakera, N., Bollepalli, B. & Murtola, T.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2019
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Juvela, L., Airaksinen, M., Bäckström, T., Pohjalainen, J., Kakouros, S., Gowda, D., Jokinen, E., Alku, P., Bollepalli, B., Saeidi, R. & Raitio, T.
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2017
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2019
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Alku, P., Rasilo, H., Räsänen, O., Remes, U., Kakouros, S., Das, S., Laine, U. K., Seshadri, S. & Lehtinen, M.
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2016
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Alku, Paavo (Recipient), 1 Jan 2015
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic career
Juvela, L. (Recipient), Bollepalli, B. (Recipient), Airaksinen, Manu (Recipient) & Alku, Paavo (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Pulakka, H. (Recipient), Remes, U. (Recipient), Yrttiaho, S. (Recipient), Palomäki, K. (Recipient), Kurimo, Mikko (Recipient) & Alku, Paavo (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Airaksinen, Manu (Recipient), Bollepalli, B. (Recipient), Juvela, L. (Recipient), Wu, Z. (Recipient), King, S. (Recipient) & Alku, Paavo (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Paavo Alku (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › Pre-examination of dissertation or acting as opponent to doctoral students
Sudarsana Kadiri (Speaker), Paavo Alku (Speaker) & Bayya Yegnanarayana (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Paavo Alku (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › Statement of assessment of professorship
Paavo Alku (Editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Membership of an editorial board
Paavo Alku (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Chair of conference, workshop, panel, session or tutorial