4 papers at AACL 2026 and 2 papers at IEEE SLT! 

New students joined our lab! 🙂

• Yinuo Sheng (Master's student at JHU CS; focusing on voice security) 

• Harper Strickland (Master's student at JHU ECE; focusing on LLMs and bias in synthesis models)  

• Muning Shao (Master's student at JHU ECE; focusing on speech and language for health)  

• William Lantian Yang (Undergraduate at JHU CS; focusing on LLMs, emotion and synthesis)  

Dr. Sisman will be giving an invited talk at SANE 2026 - Speech and Audio in the Northeast at MIT! 

Dr. Sisman is invited to give the keynote at ROCLING 2026 in Taiwan. 

3 papers at EMNLP 2026!

7 papers at Interspeech 2026!

Our lab received Amazon+JHU AI2AI Award!

We welcome four new students to the Smile Lab at Johns Hopkins University. 

• Xiutian Zhao, a Ph.D. student, will focus on research at the intersection of speech and language, specifically working on audio-language models.

• Avantika Singh, a Master’s student in Data Science, will be working on developing advanced deepfake detection systems. 

• Luqi Sun, a Master’s student in ECE, will be working on Alzheimer's dementia detection from speech prosody. 

• Divyansh Lalwani, an undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering, will explore brain-to-speech decoding. 

Dr. Sisman is invited to brief the U.S. Congressional staff on AI for speech and language. Learn more here.

5 papers accepted at Interspeech 2025!

Dr. Sisman will be the General Co-chair of Interspeech 2028, which will be held in the US! 

Dr. Sisman is elected to the ISCA Board (2025 - 2029)! 

Our lab moved to Johns Hopkins University (January 2025)!

Dr. Sisman received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award 2024 for her proposal “What is in a Voice?: Scientific and Machine Learning Advancement for Voice Conversion”. For more information, check here.