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- ↑ Rosenberg, Andrew (September 2018), Getting to Know Your Fellow Researchers: Lori Lamel, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 1 2 3 4 5 Curriculum vitae (PDF), May 2020, retrieved 2021-06-01
- ↑ Lori Lamel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ ISCA Fellows Program, International Speech Communication Association, retrieved 2021-05-30
- ↑ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-05-30
