Auditory Perception Group @UCL
Josef Schlittenlacher Principal Investigator
Josef's primary research interests are in understanding and computational modeling of auditory perception, and machine learning applied to auditory neuroscience and audiology. He is a world-leading expert in loudness and psychoacoustic measures and a co-author of the ISO 532-3 loudness standard.
Much of his applied research focuses on hearing impairment or a perceptually accurate evaluation of noise. He teaches "An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language and Speech" and "Advanced Speech Data Processing in R". Before he joined UCL in 2022, he was a lecturer at the University of Manchester,
and did research at the University of Cambridge, Technical University Darmstadt, Seikei University (Tokyo). He graduated at the Technical University Munich.
Maya Hola Teaching assistant and PhD student (primary supervisor: Paul Iverson)
Maya is a teaching assistant for the module "An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language and Speech" that makes our students without a technical background proficient in Tensorflow and Python. In her PhD, she applies deep learning to speech perception.
Yuhan applies machine learning techniques to get new insights in the source-filter separation of emotional speech. As part of her PhD, she is creating a curating a new high-quality data base of speech recordings.
Mohsen Fatehifar PhD student @Manchester (co-supervised by Kevin Munro, Timoty Cootes, David Wong and Michael Stone)
Mohsen advances hearing tests and audiology by applying automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech. His first publication is already in the International Journal of Audiology: doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2024.2422390.
He is an expert in applying machine learning to health, before joing us, he published his MSc dissertation about drug interactions in the Journal of Biomedial Informatics: doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103707.
Yupeng Wu PhD student @Manchester (co-supervised by Karolina Kluk and Rebecca Millman)
Yupeng studies the Irrelevant Speech Effect for tonal languages. Being a native speaker of Mandarin himself, he drives new hypotheses on which aspects of auditory perception and which features of speech make it the sound that distracts us the most when we learn or concentrate - even if we hear it in
a language that we do not understand.
Stephanie Loukieh PhD student @Manchester (primary supervisor: Karolina Kluk)
Stephanie studies interactions between sleep quality, age and hearing abilities. She conducts a large scale study as part of her PhD that is funded by Sonova.
Yuhan Wong PhD student @Manchester (primary supervisor: Karolina Kluk)
Yuhan studies the real-life benefits of cochlear implants for children. She does part of her PhD at the University of Melbourne with Karyn Galvin.