Has had multiple papers accepted at international conferences such as Interspeech and ICASSP; won Best Student Paper at Interspeech 2022; organized several workshops and lecture series.
Research Experience
Soon to join the UK AI Security Institute as a research scientist, previously a research associate at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. Before starting her PhD, worked with several ML & NLP research teams across the UK, Denmark, and Germany.
Education
BSc (Hons) Cognitive Science, 2018, University of Edinburgh; PhD from the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Catherine Lai and Peter Bell.
Background
Interests include speech processing, information theory, psycholinguistics, machine learning, computational linguistics, and natural language processing. During her PhD, she focused on how information encoded in the lexical and non-lexical channels of spoken communication affects perception, applying these insights to better model human language comprehension and guide the development of efficient, perceptually-motivated representations of multi-channel communicative signals.
Miscellany
In her spare time, enjoys playing, singing, and listening to music, climbing mountains and rocks, and teaching yoga.