Cohort 2019

Parag Jain

Thesis Defended: Context Representations for Conversational Natural Language Understanding

Supervisors: Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov

https://parajain.github.io/

Nicole Meng-Schneider

Research Interests: Usable security, looking at the privacy implications of voice-controlled interfaces, especially smart speakers, and the social impact of such systems

Research Topic: OF SMART SPEAKER IN MULTI-USER SPACES 

Supervisors: Nadin Kokciyan, Maria Wolters

Rohit Saxena

Thesis Defended: Abstractive Summarization of Long Narratives through Content Selection and Model Scaling.

Supervisors: Frank Keller, Hao Tang

Socials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website

Emelie Van De Vreken 

Research Interests: Machine learning for speech synthesis and prosody modelling

Research Topic: Voice Puppetry for Synthesis Control

Supervisors: Korin Richmond, Catherine Lai

Dan Wells

Thesis being defended: Building Text-to-Speech Systems with Limited Linguistic Resources

Supervisors: Korin Richmond, Hao Tang