Matthew C. Kelley, an assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of English, was recently selected for a "Best Reviewer Award" from the Technical Program Committee for the Interspeech 2026 conference. Interspeech is a top conference venue for experimental and computational research about speech, and this award reflects the quality of the reviews Kelley performed for papers submitted to the conference.
Only 127 reviewers out of 2,275 were selected for such an award, placing Kelley in the top 5% of reviewers for the conference.