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People at MSP lab

Faculty

Carlos Busso
Professor

Members

Abinay Reddy Naini
Ph.D. Student
Speech Emotion Recognition

Luz Martinez-Lucas
Ph.D. Student
Speech Emotion Recognition

Pravin Mote
Ph.D. Student
Speech Emotion Recognition

Karen Rosero
Ph.D. Student
Speech Production

Christian Flores
M.S. Student
Multimodal AI

Patarapornkan Anantarangsi
M.S. Student
Multimodal AI

Esther Sun
M.S. Student
Multimodal AI

MSP Team over the years

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MSP team in 2010
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MSP team in 2014
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MSP team in 2015
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MSP team in 2018
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MSP team in 2019
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MSP team in 2020 (COVID-19 Edition)
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MSP team in 2021
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MSP team in 2022

MSP Alumni

PhD Students

Kayla Caughlin (2020-2024)
PhD Thesis: "Classification Methods for Automated, Non-Invasive In Vivo Oral Cancer Diagnosis"
 First position after UTD: TBA
 Current position: TBA
Lucas Goncalves (2020-2024)
PhD Thesis: "Robustness and Versatility in Multimodal Emotion Recognition"
 First position after UTD: TBA
 Current position: TBA
Seong-Gyun Leem (2020-2024)
PhD Thesis: "Speech Emotion Recognition in the Presence of Background Noise"
 First position after UTD: Research Scientist, Reality Labs in Meta, Seattle, WA
Current position: Research Scientist, Reality Labs in Meta, Seattle, WA
Ali N. Salman (2018-2024)
PhD Thesis: "Personalized Video Facial Expression Recognition on the Edge"
 First position after UTD: TBA
 Current position: TBA
Andrea Vidal (2018-2023)
PhD Thesis: "Synthesizing lip movements and modeling human behavior by using generative models and graph neural networks"
 First position after UTD: OpenStream, NJ
 Current position: Emobot, Paris, France
Wei-Cheng Lin (2019-2023)
PhD Thesis: "Improving Temporal Modeling and Generalization for Speech Emotion Recognition"
 First position after UTD: Research Scientist, Robert Bosch, Pittsburgh, PA
 Current position: Research Scientist, Robert Bosch, Pittsburgh, PA
Yuning Qiu (2018-2022)
PhD Thesis: "Unsupervised Driving Anomaly Detection in Naturalistic Driving Scenarios"
 First position after UTD: AI Solution Engineer at Intel, Austin, TX
 Current position: AI Solution Engineer at Intel, Austin, TX
Kusha Sridhar (2017-2021)
PhD Thesis: "Unsupervised personalization and deep uncertainty modeling for speech emotion recognition."
 First position after UTD: Postdoctoral researcher at Rice University, Houston, TX
 Current position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Sony PlayStation, San Mateo, CA
Sumit Jha (2016-2021)
PhD Thesis: "Novel Modeling of Driver Attention in Real World Scenarios using Probabilistic Salient Maps"
 First position after UTD: Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research America, Irvine, CA
 Current position: Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research America, Irvine, CA
Srinivas Parthasarathy (2015-2019)
PhD Thesis: "Novel Frameworks for Attribute-Based Speech Emotion Recognition using Time-Continuous Traces and Sentence-Level Annotations."
 First position after UTD: Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
 Current position: Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
Mohammed AbdelWahab (2013-2019)
PhD Thesis: "Domain Adaptation for Speech Based Emotion Recognition."
 First position after UTD: AT&T Labs Research, Bedminster, NJ
 Current position: Senior inventive scientist at AT&T Labs Research, Bedminster, NJ
Fei Tao (2013-2018)
PhD Thesis: "Advances in audiovisual speech processing for robust voice activity detection and automatic speech recognition."
 First position after UTD: Uber, San Francisco, CA
 Current position: Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
Reza Lotfian (2013-2018)
PhD Thesis: "Machine Learning Solutions for Emotional Speech: Exploiting the Information of Individual annotations."
 First position after UTD: Cogito, Boston, MA
 Current position: Machine Learning Scientist at Cogito, Boston, MA
Najmeh Sadoughi (2013-2017)
PhD Thesis: "Synthesizing Naturalistic and Meaningful Speech-Driven Behaviors."
 First position after UTD: EMR.AI, San Francisco, CA
 Current position: Applied Scientist at Amazon, Seattle, WA
Nanxiang (Sean) Li (2011-2015)
PhD Thesis: "Modeling of Driver Behavior in Real World Scenarios using Multiple Noninvasive Sensors."
 First position after UTD: Honda Research Institute, Mountain View, CA
 Current position: Principal Research Scientist at Motional, Mountain View, CA
Soroosh Mariooryad (2010-2014)
PhD Thesis: "Improving Robustness of Emotion Recognition Systems: Continuous Emotion Descriptors, Contextual Information and Lexical Compensation."
 First position after UTD: Software Engineer at Google, Mountain View, CA
 Current position: Senior Software Engineer at Google, Mountain View, CA

Visiting Scholars and Post-Doctoral Researcher

 		Huang-Cheng (David) Chou (2021-2022)
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Yakup KUTLU (2013)
Iskenderum Technical University, Iskenderum, Hatay, Turkey
Youngkwon Lim (2011-2012)
Samsung Telecommunications America, Richardson, TX
Juan Pablo Arias (2010-2011)
Fortinet, Santiago, Chile

Master Students

Lucas Gonçalves (2020-2023)
First position after UTD: PhD student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
 Current position: PhD student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Alec Burmania (2016-2018)
MS. Thesis: "Methods and experimental design for collecting emotional labels using crowdsourcing"
 First position after UTD: Lennox International, Richardson, TX
 Current position: Lennox International, Richardson, TX
Yunjie Zhang (2016-2017)
First position after UTD: PhD student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
 Current position: PhD student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Anil Jakkam (2015-2017)
MS. Thesis: "A Multimodal Analysis of Synchrony during Dyadic Interaction Using a Metric Based on Sequential Pattern Mining."
 First position after UTD: Knowles Intelligent Audio, Mountain View, CA
 Current position: Knowles Intelligent Audio, Mountain View, CA
Sumit Jha (2015-2016)
MS. Thesis: "Analysis and Estimation of Driver Visual Attention using Head Position and Orientation in Naturalistic Driving Conditions."
 First position after UTD: PhD Student at UTD
 Current position: Samsung, Irvine, CA
Srinivas Parthasarathy (2013-2014)
MS. Thesis: "Relation Between Emotion Classification Performance and Evaluator Agreement with Absolute and Relative Descriptors."
 First position after UTD: Robert Bosch LLC, Palo Alto, CA
 Current position: Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
Sheldon Dsouza (2012)
First position after UTD: Apple, Cupertino, CA
 Current position: Apple, Cupertino, CA
Tauhidur Rahman (2010-2012)
MS. Thesis: "Improving robustness of emotional speech detection system."
 First position after UTD: PhD student at Cornell University
 Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Shalini Keshavamurthy (2010-2011)
UtopiaCompression Corp, Los Angeles, California
 First position after UTD: UtopiaCompression Corp, Los Angeles, CA
 Current position: Humana, Boston, MA
Jinesh Jain (2010-2011)
MS. Thesis: "Driver Distraction: Multimodal analysis and modeling of driver behavior in real-world scenarios."
First position after UTD: Belkin International, Los Angeles, CA
 Current position: Ford Motors Company, Palo Alto, CA
Anand Batlagundu (2010)
First position after UTD: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
 Current position: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Somu Palaniappan (2010)
First position after UTD: Nokia Siemens Networks, Dallas, TX
 Current position: McKesson, Irving, TX
Premkumar Sridhar (2009)
First position after UTD: Ericsson Inc, Dallas, TX
 Current position: Ericsson Inc, Dallas, TX

Undergraduate Students

Christian Flores (2024)
First position after UTD: MS Student at The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
 Current position: MS Student at The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Shruthi Subramanium (2020-2023)
First position after UTD: Product Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
 Current position: Product Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Isaac Brooks (2020-2023)
First position after UTD: Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
 Current position: Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Olivia Bonin (2021)
First position after UTD: BS Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
 Current position: Failure Analysis at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Luz Martinez-Lucas (2018-2021)
First position after UTD: MS Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
 Current position: PhD Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Jarrod Luckenbaugh (2019-2021)
First position after UTD: Software Developer at General Motors, Austin, TX
 Current position: PhD student at the University of California at San Diego, La Joya, CA
Kayla Caughlin (2019-2020)
First position after UTD: PhD Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
 Current position: PhD Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Tiancheng Hu (2018-2020)
First position after UTD: MS Student at ETH Zurich
 Current position: PhD student at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
John Harvill (2018-2019)
First position after UTD: PhD Student at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Current position: PhD Student at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth Higgins (2018-2019)
First position after UTD: BS student at UTD, Richardson, TX
 Current position: Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Asim Gazi (2017-2018)
First position after UTD: PhD Student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
 Current position: PhD Student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Michelle Bancroft (2016-2018)
First position after UTD: Central Appraisal Services, Forney, TX
 Current position: Central Appraisal Services, Forney, TX
Dorothy Mantle (2017-2018)
First position after UTD: PhD Student at Stanford University
 Current position: PhD Student at Stanford University
Alec Burmania (2012-2016)
First position after UTD: Software Engineer II at Lennox International, Richardson, TX
 Current position: Product Manager at Lennox International, Richardson, TX
Preston Luthy (2015)
First position after UTD: BS student at MIT
 Current position: Data Science Lead at Biotech Company, Stealth Mode, Cambridge, MA
Jaejin Cho (2014-2015)
First position after UTD: PhD student at John Hopkins University
 Current position: PhD student at John Hopkins University
Zackary Lindstrom (2013-2014)
First position after UTD: M.S. UT Dallas (Systems Engineering and Management)
 Current position: TBA
Tam Tran (2011-2014)
First position after UTD: Sema Wireless, Dallas, TX
 Current position: Sema Wireless, Dallas, TX
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