Professor Isabel Trancoso, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) and researcher at INESC-ID, was recently awarded the Special Service Medal from the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) for her sustained service to the association and community in this area, in terms of “leadership, dissemination and recognition by society”.

In addition to being president of ISCA between 2007 and 2011, Professor Isabel Trancoso held other leadership roles in the association, also assuming the presidency of the ISCA Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee, and of the ISCA Fellow Selection Committee.