Scholar
Karan Thakkar
Google Scholar ID: n72wEIkAAAAJ
Johns Hopkins University
Citations & Impact
Citations
77
H-index
5
i10-index
4
Publications
12
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers including a comparison of ferret brain auditory processing and artificial neural networks in Nature Communications Biology, and scaling style captions for text-to-speech to 10M pairs presented at NeurIPS 2025.
Research Experience
- Completed two internships at Apple (August 2024 & August 2025), focusing on research into audio foundation models and developing on-device audio reasoning models for multimodal interaction.
Education
- PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering; School: Johns Hopkins University; Advisor: Mounya Elhilali; Time: 2023 - present; Focus: Computational Audio Perception.
Background
- Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, working under Professor Mounya Elhilali on AI and brain-inspired models to decode how we hear and process sound. Also enjoys painting and mixing music.
Miscellany
- Hobbies include painting and music production.