Joseph Keshet received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1994 and 2002, respectively, from Tel Aviv University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The School of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008 (Ph.D. dissertation award, EU framework programme for research and innovation). From 1995 to 2002 he was a researcher at IDF, and won the prestigious Israeli award, "Israel Defense Prize", for outstanding research and development achievements. From 2008 to 2009 he was a post-doctoral researcher at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) and IDIAP Research Institute in Switzerland. From 2009 to 2012 he was Research Assistant Professor at University of Chicago and TTI-Chicago. Since 2013 he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Bar-Ilan University. Dr. Keshet's research interests are in speech and language processing, and in machine learning. In particular, he is interested in fundamental and applied research of speech processing and spoken language communication, and in machine learning algorithms for sequential prediction with theoretical foundations. He has published over 70 papers in leading journals and major conferences, and has co-authored a book.