{} Thomas Rolland
Community and service

Activities that support the speech research ecosystem.

Talks, organization, service roles, and technical competitions that sit alongside my research work.

Timeline

A condensed view of organizing work, panels, advisory roles, and earlier technical competitions.

2025-now
Service

Chair, ISCA Special Interest Group on Child Speech (ISCA SIG-CHILD)

Organizing events and community initiatives around child speech.

2025
Service

Chair, WOCCI 2025

Organizing the 7th Workshop on Child-Computer Interaction in Nijmegen in conjunction with SLaTE 2025 as a satellite event of Interspeech 2025.

2024
Talk

Panelist, Interspeech 2024 Special Session

Connecting speech science and speech technology for children's speech.

2021-2023
Service

Board Member, Event Coordinator, and Podcast Co-Founder, ISCA Student Advisory Committee

Participated in student engagement events from Interspeech 2021 to 2023 and co-founded the SpeechPitch podcast.

2017-2018
Challenge

Hackathon, Big Data for Space

Developed a deep learning-based satellite image classifier using convolutional networks.

2016
Challenge

AFIA Robot Competition

Designed, built, and programmed a LEGO MINDSTORM robot to navigate a complex labyrinth autonomously.