About me
I am a PhD student in the Computer Science department and the Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore, Maryland.
Daniel Povey and Sanjeev Khudanpur co-advise my research, which focuses on discriminatively trained representations for speaker recognition, spoken language recognition, and speaker diarization.
I also collaborate with Daniel Garcia-Romero, Gregory Sell and Alan McCree of the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.
I am a co-inventor of x-vectors, the first state-of-the-art neural embedding for text-independent speaker recognition.
As a contributor to the Kaldi toolkit, I develop and maintain the speaker recognition and diarization systems.
My industry experience in speech processing includes internships at Amazon Alexa and ICF International as well as consulting with Spoken Communications.
I am a recipient of the 2013 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which partially supports my research at JHU.
Before coming to Baltimore, I received a BS in Computer Science from Portland State University.