Biography

Biography

I am currently a PhD student at Telecom Paris under the supervision of Slim Essid and Titouan Parcollet. Before that, I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, and I also hold a masters degree from ENS Paris-Saclay (MVA Program) in Machine Learning.

During my PhD, I had the chance to spend two internships abroad. One with Google Research in Zurich, supervised by Zalan Borsos and Félix de Chaumont-Quitry on generative audio technologies. The second in Canada, supervised by Mirco Ravanelli at MILA, Montréal, working on speech self-supervision evaluation and use, within the SpeechBrain Library. I have been also trying to contribute to the SpeechBrain library through my works, if you start in speech, or are fed up with your current deep learning for speech framework, please have a look here [SpeechBrain]

Research

I am interested generally in Machine Learning applied to Language and Speech. More precisely, my current research focuses on understanding and motivating the choices in Self-supervised learning pipelines for speech.

Work Opportunities

I am getting close to the end of my PhD adventure (I should defend in early 2024) and I am starting to consider future tracks, either in Academia or Industry. If you are looking for a researcher, or buiding something related to speech, language or any human-related signal (health, brain..), feel free to drop me an email here : zaiemsalah@gmail.com .