Mauro Cettolo

Mauro Cettolo is a Senior Research Scientist at FBK – Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. He joined FBK as a researcher in 1992. Since 2004, his main research interest has been machine and speech translation. Previous research activities regarded the efficient organisation of the search space for large vocabulary, continuous speech recognition; the automatic segmentation, classification and clustering of audio broadcast news; and the automatic transcription of spontaneous lecture speech. He co-authored more than 120 scientific publications, including two patents, and has served as a reviewer for international journals, conferences and workshops; since June 2020, he acts as an Action Editor for the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, journal for which he was a standing reviewer for the previous five years. 

He co-organised the shared tasks in IWSLT evaluation campaigns 2011 to 2017, in 2023 and in 2024, and DiscoMT shared tasks 2015 to 2017; he was the local organisation chair of EAMT 2012 and of IWSLT 2007, co-organised LaDaKT 2012, co-chaired the scientific program of AISV 2006 and chaired the shared tasks of OpenLab 2006. He taught computer science modules as a consulting professor at Universities of Verona and Trento from 1997 to 2004 and led FBK research teams involved in both EU funded projects (Europeana Subtitled, EuroMatrixPlus, Presto) and industrial contracts (MateDUB Saas, Aineva, ProtoRAI). In 2018, Mauro Cettolo achieved the National Scientific qualification as associate (in the Italian higher education system) for the disciplinary field of 09/H1 - Information processing systems (Academic Recruitment Field 09/H - Computer engineering, according to the national classification). He spent two years (April 2018 – March 2020) in PerVoice SpA, a company developing and marketing speech recognition technologies, for enriching its products with machine translation and spoken language translation capabilities.