Murat Saraçlar received his B.S degree in 1994 from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, M.S.E. degree in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University.  From 2000 to 2005, he was with the multimedia services department at AT&T Labs Research. In 2005, he joined the Boğaziçi University Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department where he is currently a full professor. He was a visiting research scientist at Google Inc, New York (2011-2012) and an academic visitor at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (2012-2013). Dr. Saraçlar was awarded the AT&T Labs Research Excellence Award in 2002, the Turkish Academy of Sciences Young Scientist (TUBA-GEBIP) Award in 2009, and the IBM Faculty Award in 2010. He has more than 100 publications in journals and conference proceedings. He served as an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2009-2012), IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2012-2016) and on the editorial board of Language Resources and Evaluation journal (2012-2016). He is currently a member of the editorial board of Computer Speech and Language and a senior area editor for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. He was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee (2007-2009, 2015-2018).