Steve Renals is Professor of Speech Technology at the University of Edinburgh, having previously held positions at Sheffield, Cambridge, and ICSI Berkeley.  He has over 200 publications in speech and language processing, and has led several large projects in the field, including the UK EPSRC Programme Grant Natural Speech Technology and the FP7 roadmapping project ROCKIT.  He is a senior area editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing and a member of the ISCA Advisory Council. He is a fellow of the IEEE, and a member of ISCA and of the ACM.