Organizers

Titouan is a Senior Research Scientist at the Samsung AI Research Center in Cambridge (UK) and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Cambridge Machine Learning Systems Lab from the University of Cambridge (UK). Previously, he was an Associate Professor in computer science at the Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon (LIA), from Avignon University (FR). He also was a senior research associate at the University of Oxford (UK) within the Oxford Machine Learning Systems group. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Avignon (FR) and in partnership with Orkis focusing on quaternion neural networks, automatic speech recognition, and representation learning. His current work involves efficient and large scale speech technologies. He is also collaborating with the University of Montréal (Mila, QC, Canada) as the co-leader of the SpeechBrain project.

Rogieris a Principal Research Scientist working for Samsung at the AI Center-Cambridge, UK. His main topic of research is speech processing, and he has side interest in federated learning and differential privacy. Previously, he worked at Apple, first on Siri and later on private federated learning. Before that, he was at the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, working on speech recognition and on assessing the English of non-native speakers.

Slim Essid is an Applied Research Manager at NVIDIA, which he joined in June 2025. Previously, he was Full Professor of Télécom Paris and the coordinator of the Audio Data Analysis and Signal Processing (ADASP) group. His research interests are broadly in multimodal AI, especially Audio/Vision and Omni Language Models.

Over the past 20 years, he has been involved in various French and European collaborative research projects. He has collaborated with 18 post-docs and research engineers and has graduated 22 PhD students; he is currently co-advising 5 others. He has previously organized a number of special sessions and workshops and was general co-chair of ISMIR 2018 in Paris.