Alex Acero

About

Alex Acero is a Venture Partner at Cadenza. He is a world-renowned engineer. In 2025, Dr. Acero was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Most recently, Dr. Acero was a Sr. Distinguished Engineer and Siri Chief Scientist leading speech and language technology for Siri. Prior to joining Apple in 2013, he spent 20 years at Microsoft Research leading teams in speech, audio, multimedia, computer vision, natural language processing, machine translation, machine learning, and information retrieval. Alex is an Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington and a Fellow of IEEE and ISCA. Alex has served the IEEE in many leadership roles including the Board of Directors of IEEE and the IEEE Foundation, and as President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Alex is author of the textbook "Spoken Language Processing", over 230 technical papers and 160 US patents. Alex holds a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

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