Mirco Ravanelli received the Ph.D. (with cum laude distinction) from the University of Trento, Trento, Italy, in December 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor with Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, an Adjunct Professor with the Universite de Montreal, and a Mila Associate Member. He is the Founder and Leader of the SpeechBrain Project which aims to build an open-source toolkit for conversational AI and speech processing. He is the author or co-author of more than 80 papers on his research interests which include deep learning and conversational AI. He is also an Active Member of the Speech and Machine Learning Communities.
Bio from Discrete Audio Tokens for Multimodal LLMs - Mirco Ravanelli Conversational AI Reading Group
About Me
đ Iâm a passionate researcher and educator specializing in the exciting field of deep learning for Conversational AI.
Academic Roles
đšâđ« Assistant Professor at Concordia University: Iâm proud to hold the position of Assistant Professor at Concordia University in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. My primary focus is on deep learning for sequence processing, with a specialization in Conversational AI.
đ Adjunct Professor at UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al: I also serve as an adjunct professor at the renowned UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al, specifically in the Department of Informatique et de Recherche OpĂ©rationnelle (DIRO).
đŹ Associate Member at Mila - Quebec AI Institute: My involvement extends to the prestigious Mila - Quebec AI Institute, where Iâm an Associate Member contributing to groundbreaking research.
đ§ Leadership in CRBLM: I assume the role of an axis leader in the Center for Research on Brain, Language, and Music (CRBLM).
Research and Teaching
đ Prolific Researcher: With over 80 published papers spanning deep learning, conversational AI, and EEG signal processing, Iâve done my best to contribute to the field.
đ Educator: Beyond research, Iâm committed to form the next generation of innovators. I teach deep learning and machine learning courses to both graduate and undergraduate students. Moreover, I offer a groundbreaking course on Conversational AI, teaching the technology behind modern speech assistants and language models. I also teach a course called Applied Deep Learning.
đŁïž SpeechBrain Project
Iâm the creator and leader of the SpeechBrain project, a popular open-source Conversational AI toolkit.
đ Awards and Achievements
My dedication to excellence has been widely acknowledged. Iâve been honored with numerous national and international awards, including the prestigious 2022 Amazon Research Award.
Academic Journey
đ Post-Doc Researcher at Mila: My academic journey began with a post-doctoral research role at Mila, where I had the privilege of working under the guidance of Turing Award recipient, Professor Yoshua Bengio.
đšâđ Ph.D. with Distinction: In December 2017, I earned my Ph.D. with distinction (cum laude) from the University of Trento.
Research Interests:
- đ§ Deep Learning and Representation Learning
- đšïž Conversational AI
- đ Unsupervised/Self-Supervised/Contrastive Learning
- đ€ Cooperative Learning
- đïž Robust Speech Recognition
- đ€ Speaker Recognition
- đ Speech Enhancement
- đ Robust Acoustic Scene Analysis
- 𧏠EEG Brain Signal Decoding