In the News

Sam Altman's Ouster and the Age-Old Tension Between Doing Good and Making Money, Time, November 21, 2023.
Faces of Fraud, Award announcements by CreativePool. Credited 6 June 2023, Type: Award winning advertisement campaign by HSBC Bank and Wunderman Thompson, London. (Used our voice-based face reconstruction technology)
Can we identify a person from their voice?, IEEE Spectrum, April 15, 2023. (Magazine Article)

PhD and Masters Theses Events

Maps/Locations: Hammerschlag Hall

December 13, 2024 | 8:00am EDT | GHC 6115
Computational Techniques for Voice Intelligence: Deducing Psychological Factors from Human Voice by Hira Dhamyal, for PhD in Language Technologies and Computer Science
October 11, 2024 | 9:00am EDT | GHC 6115
Computational Audition with Imprecise Labels by Ankit Parag Shah, for PhD in Language Technologies and Computer Science
March 7, 2024 | 9:40am EDT | CIC 2101
End-to-End Modeling for Abstractive Speech Summarization by Roshan S. Sharma, for PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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June 16, 2023
Assessing and enhancing adversarial robustness in context and applications to speech security by Raphael Olivier, for PhD in Language Technologies and Computer Science
April 26, 2023 | 9:30am EDT | PH B09 (Porter Hall)
Incorporating Modulation Information into Deep Neural Networks for Robust Speech Processing by Tyler Vuong, for PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

June 27, 2023 | 10am - 1pm EDT | HH B206 (Hammerschlag Hall)
The Interactive Machine Learning Paradigm by Mark Lindsey, for PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 19, 2023 | 9:30am – 11:30am
Everyday conversation speech recognition with end-to-end neural networks by Xuankai Chang, for PhD in Language Technologies and Computer Science
May 10, 2023 | 2:30pm - 4:30pm EDT | PH B09 (Porter Hall)
Continual Learning in Speech and Audio Applications by Muqiao Yang, for PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

(Fall 2023)

Information about research presentations in conferences, symposiums and other venues.

Dec 5, 2023: Human Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from the Halls of AI, at the UNDP/HDRO Human Security at 30: New security and development horizons in the Artificial Intelligence Age, United Nations, New York. Keynote by Rita Singh.
Here's what the artists drew on that day, as the session went on:

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Dec 5, 2023 | USA: Redefining Voice Signal Processing with Habana Gaudi, at the Intel oneAPI DevSummit for AI and High Performance Computing. Talk by Rita Singh.
Nov 14, 2023 | Reykjavik, Iceland
Women Leaders Global Forum
A.I. Challenges: Strategies for Emerging Technologies Panel incl. Rita Singh.
Defending Democracy in the Digital Age Leaders Panel incl. Rita Singh.
August 2, 2023 | Honolulu, Hawaii
32nd Annual Northeast Asia Economic Forum (NEAEF) Forum and 16th Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program
held by Hawaii Asia-Pacific Institute (HAPI) and Northeast Asia Economic Forum (NEAEF);
Using AI Panel including Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj and others 15:00-16:30 HST.
July 14-20, 2023 | Lisbon, Portugal
The 13th Lisbon Machine Learning School, LxMLS 2023;
Tutorial lectures by Bhiksha Raj
April 03-07, 2023 | Bari, Italy
An Introduction to Quantum Neural Networks
In DeepLearn 2023 Spring, 9th International School on Deep Learning
Tutorial lectures by Bhiksha Raj, Daniel Justice and Prabh Baweja

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Bhiksha Raj was elected ISCA Fellow in August 2024. The ceremony was held on the Island of Kos, Greece, on 2 September 2024. Here's a picture:

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In the interim... we lost track.

Ankit Shah (Ph.D student) and his team won the GPT/LLM Hackathon
held in April 23 at NYC in partnership with Lerer Hippeau and sponsored by OpenAI, Anthropic, Bloomberg Beta, 645 Ventures and Firstmark.