talks & teaching

Talks

• [Mar 2023] Towards zero-shot audio models. Robust MLSP, CMU
  
• [Oct 2022] Learning audio concepts from natural language supervision. Cognitive Services, Microsoft
  
• [Dec 2020] Weakly-supervised and Semi-supervised learning and its application in audio & speech. Spoken Language Systems Group (SLS), MIT CSAIL. [slides]
  
• Attacker behaviour profiling and modelling framework for Honeypot data
         [Oct 2018] Cyber peace foundation, CoE-CNDS
         [Nov 2018] ICICI bank, CoE-CNDS
  

Teaching

• [Fall 2023] TA: Machine Learning for Signal Processing [2], with Prof. Bhiksha Raj, CMU
  
• [Spring 2020] TA: Introduction to Machine Learning [1], with Prof. Gauri Joshi, Prof. Carlee Joe-Wong, CMU
  Responsibilities for TA include conducting recitations, weekly office hours, create and grade homeworks

Academic activities

• Reviewer: ICASSP [2023, 2024]; INTERSPEECH [2023,2024]
• Workshop: Special Session “Synergy between human and machine approaches to sound/scene recognition and processing” at ICASSP 2023

Interns

Microsoft and Microsoft Research has summer internship programs and we are always looking for exceptional PhD students to join our team as research interns. Check out our careers page for open positions.

Past and Current Interns (Advised/Co-Advised)

• Hira Dhamyal, PhD student at CMU
• Ruijie Zhou, PhD student at Berkeley (next: Applied Scientist at Microsoft)
• Neha Nishikanth, Bachelors at CMU (next: Palantir)

Press:

• Microsoft Research Blog Research on Automated Audio Captioning featured in Microsoft Research Blog.
• Analytics India Magazine 2023 Microsoft launches Pengi, an Audio Language Model for Open-ended Tasks
• Microsoft Garage 2021 Internal coverage for hackathon project in the area of speech and audio
• Business Insider 2020 Do I sound sick to you? Researchers are building AI that would diagnose COVID-19 by listening to people talk
• Pittsburgh news 2020 Coronavirus detected by voice? Carnegie Mellon researchers Develop app to ‘listen’ for signs of COVID-19
• Forbes 2020 AI and medical diagnostics: can a smartphone app detect COVID-19 from speech or cough?
• Indiatimes 2019 News coverage of Deepfake efforts in VJTI CoE-CNDS
• DNIF 2019 Modelling attacker behavioral patterns using statistical machine learning algorithms