As an applied linguist, my research interests include critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, language and gender, language learning motivation, and the internationalization of higher education. The connection among all of these niches is how ideologies, both good and bad, are created, manifested, sustained, and/or minimized.
As a speech technologist/NLP enthusiast, I am interested in the representations of speech and language in conjunction with Large Language Models (LLMs). I am curious about the cognitive capabilities of modern neural architectures, in the sense that modern neural architectures are exceptional learners of representations or are very good at rote learning. Simultaneously, I am keen on exploring the extent to which security systems can be breached due to the use of LLMs, such as the state-of-the-art speech synthesis model VALL-E.