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Torbjørn Svendsen is professor at the Signal Processing Group of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He received his siv.ing. degree (MSc) from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in 1979 and his dr.ing. degree from NTH in 1985.
He has been actively involved with research in various aspects of speech and spoken language processing for more than 20 years, spanning speech coding, recognition and synthesis as well as spoken dialogue systems and, currently, multi-modal user interfaces. He has supervised 11 completed PhD projects within this area and is currently supervising 7 on-going PhD projects.

Professor Svendsen has been involved in the ESPRIT SAM project (ESPRIT 2589), and a number of COST actions (208, 232, 249, 278) and was vice chair of COST action 278, "Spoken Language Interaction in Telecommunication". He has had extended research stays at AT&T Bell Laboratories, AT&T Labs, Griffith University (Australia) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia).
He has been a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Speech Technical Committee and has been extensively used for international project reviewing and for paper reviews for international scientific journals and conferences. He currently serves on the editorial board of Speech Communications. He has managed several major national projects within the area of speech technology and is currently chair of the VERDIKT programme board at the Norwegian Research Council.