18 Facts About Alex Waibel

Alexander Waibel was born on 2 May 1956 and is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Alex Waibel's work has introduced cross-lingual communication systems, such as consecutive and simultaneous interpreting systems on a variety of platforms.

Alex Waibel spent part of his schooling in Barcelona, before entering the humanistisches Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen.

Alex Waibel was presented with the Guillamin Award for the best undergraduate thesis in 1979.

Alex Waibel is the director of interACT, the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Alex Waibel was one of the founders of C-STAR, an international consortium for speech translation research, and served as its chairman from 1998 to 2000.

Alex Waibel has been chairman of its steering committee since its inception.

Alex Waibel directed and coordinated several multisite research programs in Europe and the US, including the CHIL program in Europe and NSF-ITR project STR-DUST in the US Alex Waibel was project coordinator of the IP EU-BRIDGE, funded by the EC.

Alex Waibel developed with his lab several multimodal systems including face tracking, lip reading, emotion recognition from speech, perceptual meeting rooms, meeting recognizers, meeting browsers, and multimodal dialog systems for humanoid robots.

Alex Waibel demonstrated the first automatic interpreting services at the European Parliament in 2012.

Alex Waibel was the founder and chairman of Mobile Technologies, LLC, maker of the Jibbigo mobile speech-to-speech app to translate speech on a phone.

In 2013, Jibbigo was acquired by Facebook Inc and Alex Waibel joined the company to start the Language Technology Group which became part of Facebook's broader Applied Machine Learning efforts.

Alex Waibel was co-founder and director of MultiModal Technologies, Inc and M*Modal, specializing in medical records, which merged with 3M in 2019.

Alex Waibel serves as Research Fellow at Zoom and on Advisory Boards in related enterprises.

In October 2018, Alex Waibel closed out a successful legal case against Wikimedia Foundation citing German libel laws.

Alex Waibel was awarded the Alcatel-SEL "Forschungspreis Technische Kommunikation" in 1994 for his work on computer speech translation systems.

Alex Waibel received the Sustained Accomplishment Award of the ACM-ICMI for his work on multimodal interfaces.

In 2023, Alex Waibel was inducted as Fellow into the Explorers Club citing aviation expeditions and deep sea exploration.