Thomas Thebaud is an assistant research professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and affiliated with the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Center for Language and Speech Processing, and Geriatrics Engineering. He leads and contribute to a variety of projects at the intersection of speech and handwriting research, as well as teaching the Biometrics Systems course in the spring.
His work spans multiple areas, including the use of handwriting signals to assess neurodegenerative diseases, the design of novel threats, defenses against adversarial, and backdoor attacks on speech systems, conversation summarization with multimodal large language models, and the development of emotion recognition systems.
Thebaud earned his PhD in antispoofing for voice and handwriting biometrics through a joint program between LIUM in Le Mans, France, and Orange Labs in Rennes, France.