Research

I am an AI Researcher at Descript, working on generative models that power audio and video editing in production. My current focus spans audio codecs, diffusion models and audio-text forced alignment.

Applied Research

• Audio Regenerate — Seamless word-level audio editing via latent inpainting.
  [project page]

• Video Regenerate and Translation — Audio-driven lip-sync for editing and translation.
  [project page]

Publications & Submissions

• PoDAR: Power-Disentangled Audio Representation for Generative Modeling
  [preprint]

• Switching Subspace Model for Neural Population Analysis
  [preprint]

• Assessing Comprehensibility of Children’s Read Speech
  [preprint] [presentation] [report]

• Deep Learning for Prominence Detection in Children’s Read Speech
  [publication] [presentation] [report]

• CNN Encoding of Acoustic Parameters for Prominence Detection
  [preprint] [presentation] [report]

Other Research

• Character Animation from Video in Blender (Honors Project)
  [presentation] [report]

• SIRD Model for Studying Outbreak of Infectious Diseases
  [report] [code]