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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: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Alku, P., Javanmardi, F., Mittapalle, K., Tirronen, S., Kadiri, S., Pohjalainen, H. & Kodali, M.
01/09/2020 → 31/08/2024
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Alku, P., Nonavinakere Prabhakera, N., Bollepalli, B., Bäckström, T., Murtola, T., Airaksinen, M. & Juvela, L.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2019
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2019
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Juvela, L., Airaksinen, M., Bäckström, T., Pohjalainen, J., Gowda, D., Jokinen, E., Alku, P., Bollepalli, B., Saeidi, R., Raitio, T. & Kakouros, S.
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2017
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 or artistic career
Juvela, Lauri (Recipient), Bollepalli, Bajibabu (Recipient), Airaksinen, Manu (Recipient) & Alku, Paavo (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Alku, Paavo (Recipient), 1 Jan 2020
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Pulakka, Hannu (Recipient), Remes, Ulpu (Recipient), Yrttiaho, Santeri (Recipient), Palomäki, Kalle (Recipient), Kurimo, Mikko (Recipient) & Alku, Paavo (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Airaksinen, Manu (Recipient), Bollepalli, Bajibabu (Recipient), Juvela, Lauri (Recipient), Wu, Zhizheng (Recipient), King, Simon (Recipient) & Alku, Paavo (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Paavo Alku (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited academic talk
Paavo Alku (Examiner)
Activity: Academic assessments › Pre-examination of doctoral thesis or acting as opponent to doctoral students or membership of doctoral thesis committee or board
Sudarsana Kadiri (Speaker), Paavo Alku (Speaker) & Bayya Yegnanarayana (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Paavo Alku (Examiner)
Activity: Academic assessments › Statement of assessment of professorship
Paavo Alku (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Chair or participant of a conference, workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event
09/03/2023
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance