Shrikanth Narayanan delivering a plenary speech at ICASSP 2026 (Photo Credit: Kai-Wei Chang)
Last week, USC researchers had a strong presence at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), with more than 10 papers accepted and USC University Professor and Vice President Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan selected as one of the conference’s plenary speakers.
Held May 4-8 in Barcelona, Spain, ICASSP is a global forum shaping the future of signal-driven machine intelligence and showcasing the latest findings in the signal processing field.
This year, USC had 13 papers accepted at the conference from faculty and students across USC Viterbi’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. This includes eight papers from the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) led by Narayanan, University Professor and USC’s inaugural vice president for presidential initiatives; two led by Antonio Ortega, Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and three led by Urbashi Mitra and her students. Mitra is the Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, with joint appointments at Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science.
