Alexander Waibel (born 2 May 1956 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University[1] and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

[10] From 2019 to 2023, he directed OML (Organic Machine Learning) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), a fundamental research project to develop incremental and interactive machine learning, aiming to help AI better handle surprise in language and robotics.

[16] He was co-founder and director of MultiModal Technologies, Inc.[17] and M*Modal, specializing in medical records, which merged with 3M in 2019.

[18] In 2015, he cofounded KITES GmbH, to deploy simultaneous speech translation services to Universities and to the European Parliament.

In October 2018, Waibel closed out a successful legal case[19] against Wikimedia Foundation[20] citing German libel laws.

He was awarded the Alcatel-SEL "Forschungspreis Technische Kommunikation" in 1994 for his work on computer speech translation systems.

[22] With InterACT, he was awarded a second Meta Prize Archived 2016-09-02 at the Wayback Machine for "Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Communication Technologies" (2016).