Designed a controllable speech generation system for speakers with atypical speech; showed that synthetic atypical speech used for ASR training substantially reduces the amount of real data required; built data foundations for the Speech Accessibility Project dataset (500K+ utterances). Mentored by Dianna Yee, Colin Lea and Leah Findlater.
Graduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
Generative reconstruction of disordered speech; facial analysis for craniofacial anomalies. In collaboration with Children’s Health Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dr. Rami Hallac).
Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Texas at Dallas
Started my Ph.D. research with Prof. Carlos Busso in the MSP Lab, which moved to Carnegie Mellon University in January 2025.
Master's Research Fellow (FAPESP)
University of Campinas
Self-supervised learning and bio-inspired features for 3D sound event localization and detection in spatial audio.
Education
Ph.D. in Language and Information Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Transferred from The University of Texas at Dallas · Advisor: Prof. Carlos Busso
Master of Language Technologies (M.L.T.)
Carnegie Mellon University
Earned en route to the Ph.D. · Language Technologies Institute
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
FAPESP Research Excellence Fellowship · Advisor: Prof. Bruno S. Masiero
B.S. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Ecuador
Best Graduate Award · Advisor: Prof. Felipe Grijalva
Honors & Awards
Travel Award, Doctoral Consortium, IEEE Face and Gesture Recognition Conference (FG)
2025
FAPESP Research Excellence Fellowship, São Paulo Research Foundation
2020 – 2022
Best Graduate Award, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE