Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
2317 Speedway
Austin, TX 78712

curriculum vitae

My research interests are in the area of machine learning for speech, language, and sound processing. I am particularly interested in multimodality and unsupervised/self-supervised approaches that can benefit low-resource languages and domains. At UT, I lead the Speech, Audio, and Language Technologies (SALT) Lab.

Prior to joining UT, I worked as a research scientist at MIT CSAIL from 2018 to 2020. I recieved my PhD in 2018 from the Spoken Language Systems Group at MIT CSAIL, under the supervision of Jim Glass.

Teaching

Research

Publications

Please see my Google Scholar page for an up-to-date list of my publications.

Datasets

Please visit this website to download all of the spoken caption corpora I have collected (as well as modeling code).

Miscellaneous

Media Coverage

Fun Stuff

My Adacemic Genealogy

According to the CSAIL Genealogy Project, there may be an additional connection between Hunt and Saunders that traces back to Helmholtz: