Started my PhD
I am happy to share that I have begun my PhD in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
🎧Sidharth (Sid)
Speech and Audio AI + HCI Researcher
About Me
I am a first year PhD student in the Soundability Lab at University of Michigan CSE dept. advised by Dr. Dhruv Jain and I work closely with Dr. Herman Dong. I develop deep learning algorithms for hearables, focusing on robust speech and audio perception in real-world conditions. Prior to joining UMich, I graduated with an MS in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle where I was advised by Dr. Jeffrey Herron and Dr. Rajesh Rao in Neural Systems lab.
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Speech and Audio Processing
- HCI
Education
PhD, Computer Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle
B.Tech., Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering with minor in Mathematics
College of Engineering, Trivandrum
📚 My Research
I mainly work on speech processing and AI in general. My current work includes target speech extraction and enhancement focussed towards HCI applications. I am also interested in audio representation learning. If you want to chat about anything, feel free to shoot me an email at sidcs [at] umich [dot] edu
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2025).
PainDECOG: Machine Learning-Based Identification of Pain Biomarkers from sEEG Signals.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10621.
(2023).
CSP-LSTM Based Emotion Recognition from EEG Signals.
2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE).
(2023).
Real-time Speech Enhancement on Raw Signals with Deep State-space Modeling.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.03377.
(2023).
The DISPLACE challenge 2023-diarization of speaker and language in conversational environments.
Proc. Interspeech 2023.
(2023).
Emotion detection from EEG using transfer learning.
2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC).
Recent & Upcoming Talks
Recent News
Elated to share that the paper that I co-authored at BrainChip, aTENNuate, has been accepted at Interspeech 2025
If you are at Rotterdam from August 17-21, 2025, and want to have a chat on speech technologies, feel free to hit me up!
Accepted an offer to Intern at Skyworks
Signed an offer to Intern at Skyworks AIS team in Summer'2025 – Headstart towards my PhD
Thrilled to share that I'll be attending AAAI 2025 to present my research PainDECOG
I’ll be travelling to Philadelphia to present my masters research project at AAAI 2025
🎧 aTENNuate submitted to Interspeech 2025
Our work on audio denoising using SSMs at BrainChip was recently submitted to Interspeech 2025.