Working experience

Principal Researcher

KLASS Engineering and Solutions, Singapore

July 2023 - present

• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Audio/video DeepFake detection
• Co-organizer of ASVspoof Challenge

Scientist

Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

Jun 2019 - July 2023

• Audio DeepFake Detection on Sleuth Platform
• Speech-to-text end-to-end translation
• Acoustic event detection, speech emotion recognition

Research Assistant | Speech Technologies

Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

Jan 2017 - May 2019

• Deep learning for multi-label classification, acoustic event detection
• Non-decomposable objective functions

Research Assistant | Speech Technologies

The SIPU Lab, University of Eastern Finland

Aug 2014 to Jan 2017

• Project OCTAVE H2020
• Foreign Accent Recognition Project (FARP) funded by
  The Finnish Defence Forces
• Speaker Recognition Project

Education

The Doctoral Programme in Science, Technology and Computing

University of Eastern Finland

Finland

Nov 2015 to Dec 2021

• Thesis: Polyphonic Sound Event Detection

International Master’s Degree Programme in Information Technology

University of Eastern Finland

Finland

Sep 2013 to Sep 2015

• Thesis: Speech Attribute Detection Using Deep Learning
• Project: Accent Recognition Android Demo Application
• Major in Speech Processing, Deep Learning

Master of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Saint-Petersburg State University

Russia

Sep 2012 to May 2014

• Thesis: Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for
  Speech Feature Extraction

Bachelor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Saint-Petersburg State University

Russia

Sep 2008 to May 2012

• With Honors and 4.9/5 GPA
• Graduation project: ’Speech Signal Compression Using Wavelet Analysis’
• Student Robotics Control Lab (2008 – 2010)

Other experience

Computer Skills

• Speech processing libraries: Kaldi, Fairseq
• Knowledge of Python, Keras, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Bash, Matlab

BlockChain

• Knowledge of Ethereum Smart Contracts & DApps development
• Teaching at GeekBrains: Bitcoin Script. Ethereum Smart Contracts

Additional information

Initiatives

• Co-organizer of ASVspoof Challenge — 2023 - Now
• Co-organizer of BlockChain Meetups — 2017 - 2018
• Deep Learning & AI Facebook Group — 2016 - Now

Teaching

• Bayesian Inference 1 (exercise session), UEF — Fall 2016
• Introduction to Statistical Inference 2 (exercise session), UEF — Fall 2016
• Biomedical Data Science, Summer School, Kuopio, UEF — Summer 2016
• Introduction to Statistical Inference 1 (exercise session), UEF — Spring 2016

Awards

• Trusted Media Challenge. Singapore
  Team A*ntiFake took 7-th place out of 90 teams
  Developed audio antispoofing, final accuracy of 96% — 2021
• DCASE 2017 Challenge: Task 1/4 — 2017
• Speech Recognition Challenge "Native speech - 2013",
  organized by Speech Technology Center, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  2-nd place out of 20 teams, developed automatic speech recognition
  using HTK framework, 51% recognition accuracy — 2013