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About Me

🚀 I'm a passionate researcher and educator specializing in the exciting field of deep learning for Conversational AI.

Academic Roles

👨‍🏫 Assistant Professor at Concordia University: I'm proud to hold the position of Assistant Professor at Concordia University in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. My primary focus is on deep learning for sequence processing, with a specialization in Conversational AI.

🎓 Adjunct Professor at Université de Montréal: I also serve as an adjunct professor at the renowned Université de Montréal, specifically in the Department of Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle (DIRO).

🔬 Associate Member at Mila - Quebec AI Institute: My involvement extends to the prestigious Mila - Quebec AI Institute, where I'm an Associate Member contributing to groundbreaking research.

🧠 Leadership in CRBLM: I assume the role of an axis leader in the Center for Research on Brain, Language, and Music (CRBLM).

Research and Teaching

📚 Prolific Researcher: With over 60 published papers spanning deep learning, conversational AI, and EEG signal processing, I've done my best to contribute to the field.

📖 Educator: Beyond research, I'm committed to form the next generation of innovators. I teach deep learning and machine learning courses to both graduate and undergraduate students. Moreover, I offer a groundbreaking course on Conversational AI, teaching the technology behind modern speech assistants and language models.

🗣️ SpeechBrain Project

I'm the creator and leader of the SpeechBrain project, a popular open-source Conversational AI toolkit. 

🏆 Awards and Achievements

My dedication to excellence has been widely acknowledged. I've been honored with numerous national and international awards, including the prestigious 2022 Amazon Research Award.

Academic Journey

🎓 Post-Doc Researcher at Mila: My academic journey began with a post-doctoral research role at Mila, where I had the privilege of working under the guidance of Turing Award recipient, Professor Yoshua Bengio.

👨‍🎓 Ph.D. with Distinction: In December 2017, I earned my Ph.D. with distinction (cum laude) from the University of Trento. 

Research Interests:

🧠 Deep Learning and Representation Learning

🗨️ Conversational AI

🌌 Unsupervised/Self-Supervised/Contrastive Learning

🤝 Cooperative Learning 

🎙️ Robust Speech Recognition

🎤 Speaker Recognition

🔊 Speech Enhancement

🌆 Robust Acoustic Scene Analysis

🧬 EEG Brain Signal Decoding