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Associate Professor of Language Tech, University of Groningen (Campus Fryslân)
Associate Professor of Language Tech, University of Groningen (Campus Fryslân)
I am an Associate Professor of Speech Technology, at Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen, where I also direct the MSc Speech Technology program. I earned my PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam in 2010 and previously led cognitive systems at an AI startup specializing in acoustic sensors. I served as Vice Chair of the COST Action and currently serve on the ISCA Ethics Committee and the ISCA SynSIG Board.
My research centers on the ethical development of speech technology, with particular focus on under-resourced languages and small data scenarios. As Ethics Chair for INTERSPEECH 2025 and member of the ISCA Ethics Committee and ISCA SynSIG Board, I advocate for responsible AI development that prioritizes linguistic diversity and community benefit over technological advancement alone. I explore how speech technologies can be developed ethically to serve marginalized language communities, ensuring that AI systems amplify linguistic diversity. I welcome collaboration opportunities at the intersection of AI ethics and speech tech.
Featured research
Featured research
Recent publications
Recent publications
Li, Z., Chen, Y., Lai, H., Gao, X., Nayak, S., & Coler, M. (2026). SarcasmMiner: A Dual-Track Post-Training Framework for Robust Audio-Visual Sarcasm Reasoning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.05275. [preprint]
Do, P., Coler, M., Dijkstra, J., Marchenko, I., Verkhodanova, V., & Le Maguer, S. (2025). The Blizzard Challenge 2025.
Gao, X., Raghuvanshi, D., Li, Z., Bansal, S., Nayak, S., Kumar, N., & Coler, M. (2025). AMuSeD: An Attentive Deep Neural Network for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Incorporating Bi-modal Data Augmentation. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
Recent talks
Recent talks
Voice AI know what you say but not what you mean. Voice AI Space Amsterdam Meetup. 5/2026
Speech technology as interdisciplinary science. Centrum Q Event, University of Warsaw. 12/2025
Billion-Dollar Voices and Minority Languages: The Promise and Challenge of Speech Technology. Keynote, University of Warsaw’s Winter School of Innovation. 12/2025
Speech Technology Speaking Machines and Living Languages. Keynote, University of Warsaw's BREAKTHROUGHS conference. 10/2025
Regional and minority languages: Game changer in the conventional digital world? Representation of the European Region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino. Panelist. 09/2025
Projects
Projects
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