Luis Fernando D'Haro

Luis Fernando D'Haro (Member, IEEE) is currently an Associate Professor with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSIT, UPM), Spain, and a Member of the Speech Technology and Machine Learning Group. His research mainly focuses on spoken dialogue and natural language processing systems, he has written more than 18 international journal publications specifically on dialog systems. Since 2015, Prof. D'Haro has co-organized the WoChat, DBDC and DSTC series of workshops and challenges, which have the common goal of advancing chatbot systems and their automatic evaluation. He was also a Member of the local organizers for Interspeech in 2014, Human Agent Interaction conference, and the International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS) in 2018, and the General Chair for IWSDS 2020. He was a Senior Member for the Chanel workshop at the Johns Hopkins Summer school (JSALT2020). He is currently the Faculty Advisor for Thaurus Team with the Amazon Alexa Prize Grand Challenge (SGC5), co-organizer of the Track four at DSTC11 challenge (multilingual and robust dialogue metrics evaluation), and PI of the EIC funded ASTOUND Project.