Raghavendra Pappagari was a PhD student graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Fall 2021. He currently works at Amazon Web Services. His research deals with several aspects of spoken conversations such as emotion recognition, user satisfaction, dialog act segmentation and Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Prior to his PhD, he completed his master’s in IIT Hyderabad, India where he focussed on representation learning for spoken term detection. Outside of work, he enjoys running, hiking and board games.

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Nanxin Chen was a Ph.D. student who worked on non-autoregressive speech modeling. Now he is a research scientist in Google Brain.
He loves studying new things like photography.
He used to play video games but he doesn't have time nowadays..

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Phani Sankar Nidadavolu graduated from Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) at Johns Hopkins University in 2021 with a Ph.D degree. During his Ph.D, his primary research area was developing domain adaptation techniques for improving the robustness of speaker recognition systems. He was advised by Najim Dehak and Jesus Villalba. Before joining CLSP, he was as a research associate in Speech and Image Processing (SIP) lab at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad. Currently, Phani lives in Redmond, Washington with his wife and his two daughters, and works as an ‘Applied Scientist’ in acoustic modelling team at Amazon.com, Inc.

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Marie-Philippe Gill is an NLP Research Developer at Croesus in Canada. She graduated with a master's in IT from ETS in Montreal, where her research thesis was about predicting the severity of Parkinson's disease from smartwatches. Marie visited JHU during 2020. She is also a strong advocate for women in engineering through her blog Girl Knows Tech (https://girlknowstech.com) and social media accounts.

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