Resume
Academic Achievements
- - TADA: Training-free Attribution and Out-of-Domain Detection of Audio Deepfakes (Interspeech 2025)
- - Replay Attacks Against Audio Deepfake Detection (Interspeech 2025)
- - Unmasking real-world audio deepfakes: A data-centric approach (Interspeech 2025)
- - Efficient Training Strategies for Natural Sounding Speech Synthesis and Speaker Adaptation Based on Fastpitch (ICCP 2024)
- - WavLM model ensemble for audio deepfake detection (ASVspoof 2024)
- - Towards generalisable and calibrated audio deepfake detection with self-supervised representations (Interspeech 2024)
- - TBDM-Net: Bidirectional Dense Networks with Gender Information for Speech Emotion Recognition (MLSP 2024)
- - An analysis of large speech models-based representations for speech emotion recognition (SpeD 2023)
- - An analysis on the effects of speaker embedding choice in non auto-regressive TTS (SSW2023)
- - Kinyarwanda TTS: Using a multi-speaker dataset to build a Kinyarwanda TTS model (African NLP Workshop 2023)
Research Experience
- - EU Horizon project 'AI4Trust' (no. 101070190) (2023-2026)
- - Strategic national framework in the field of artificial intelligence (2021-2023)
- - SINTERO: Technologies for creating human-machine interfaces for expressive text-to-speech synthesis (2018-2021)
- - SWARA: Mobile System for Rehabilitative Vocal Assistance of Surgical Aphonia (2015-2017)
- - SIMPLE4ALL: Speech Synthesis that Improves through Adaptive Learning (2011-2014)
Background
- Research interests: text-to-speech synthesis, deepfake detection, acoustic modeling, audio processing, machine learning algorithms and evolution programming in speech applications, artificial intelligence, multimedia databases.