Mahsa Yarmohammadi is an assistant research scientist in the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) who leads state-of-the-art research in cross-lingual language and speech applications and algorithms. A primary focus of Yarmohammadi’s research is using deep learning techniques to transfer existing resources into other languages and to learn representations of language from multilingual data. […]
Ayah Zirikly is an assistant research scientist in the Center for Language and Speech Processing. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and holds a PhD in computer science from Dr. Mona Diab’s NLP lab at the George Washington University. She has been actively involved in suicide risk assessment research in […]
Piotr Zelasko is an assistant research scientist in the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) who is an expert on automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken language understanding (SLU). His current research focuses on applying multilingual and cross-lingual speech recognition systems to categorize the phonetic inventory of a previously unknown language and on improving […]
Laureano Moro-Velazquez is an assistant research scientist in the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) who focuses on the use of signal processing and machine learning for medical applications. Moro-Velazquez collaborates with colleagues in the departments of Neurology and Critical Care at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to develop new tools for the diagnosis […]
Paola Garcia is an Assistant Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University. She received a Master Degree in Communications Engineering form the University of Manchester, UK. She received a PhD Degree in 2014, from University of Zaragoza, Spain. She was a Research Assistant at Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico for 10 years. She was an […]
Craig Harman is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). He is also affiliated with JHU’s Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE). Before joining JHU in 2013, he worked on a wide variety of research collaborations between computer scientists and clinicians at the University of Rochester.
Jesús Villalba received his M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering (2004) and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (2014) from University of Zaragoza (Spain). His Ph.D. thesis focused on several topics related to speaker recognition in adverse environments. During his PhD. studies, he interned at Brno University of Technology (BUT) and collaborated with the company Agnitio. After graduating, he […]
