Curriculum: Tanja Schultz received the German "Staatsexamen" in mathematics and physical education from the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, in 1989, the Dipl. and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. In 2000, she joined the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, as a Research Associate. Her research activities are in the field of language independent and language adaptive speech recognition, large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems in many languages, and human-machine interfaces, as well as spontaneous and conversational speech.