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Sunwoo successfully defended his dissertation proposal. Congratulations!

Minje gave an invited talk to the students at POSTECH’s Dept. of Computer Science on Engineering. The topic was on data efficiency and privacy preservation issues when machine learning is applied to personalized speech enhancement applications.

Minje gave an invited talk to the researchers at Fraunhofer IIS on deep learning-based speech and audio coding systems.

MERL supports Darius Petermann’s “Cocktail Fork Problem” with $15,000 of gift money.

Darius Petermann gave a lecture on “Machine Learning for Musicians” to the students in the Dept. of Electronic Production & Design (EPD), Berklee College of Music.

Minje received a $20,000-worth AWS credit for his deep learning/speech processing research.

Kai’s IEEE/ACM TASLP paper has been accepted for publication. It provides a comprehensive report of what we have been doing on neural speech coding so far. Congratulations!

SAIGE have three papers accepted for publication at WASPAA 2021. Congrats, Sunwoo, Aswin, and Darius!

Aswin, Sunwoo, and Minje’s paper, “Personalized Speech Enhancement through Self-Supervised Data Augmentation and Purification,” was accepted for publication at Interspeech 2021.