Research
Dr. Leibny Paola Garcia Perera (PhD 2014, University of Zaragoza, Spain) joined Johns Hopkins University after extensive research experience in academia and industry, including highly regarded laboratories at Agnitio and Nuance Communications. She led a team of 20+ researchers from four of the best laboratories worldwide in far-field speech diarization and speaker recognition under the auspices of the JHU summer workshop 2019 in Montreal, Canada. She was also a researcher at Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico, for ten years. She was a Marie Curie researcher for the Iris project in 2015, exploring assistive technology for children with autism in Zaragoza, Spain. She was a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology (2009) and Carnegie Mellon (2011). Recently, she has been working on children’s speech, including child speech recognition and diarization in day-long recordings. She collaborates with DARCLE.org and CCWD, which analyze child-centered speech. She is also part of the JHU CHiME5, CHiME6, SRE18 and SRE19, SRE20, SRE21, LRE22 teams. Her interests include diarization, speech recognition, speaker recognition, machine learning, and language processing.
Dr. Leibny Paola Garcia Perera (PhD 2014, University of Zaragoza, Spain) joined Johns Hopkins University after extensive research experience in academia and industry, including highly regarded laboratories at Agnitio and Nuance Communications. She led a team of 20+ researchers from four of the best laboratories worldwide in far-field speech diarization and speaker recognition under the auspices of the JHU summer workshop 2019 in Montreal, Canada. She was also a researcher at Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico, for ten years. She was a Marie Curie researcher for the Iris project in 2015, exploring assistive technology for children with autism in Zaragoza, Spain. She was a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology (2009) and Carnegie Mellon (2011). Recently, she has been working on children’s speech, including child speech recognition and diarization in day-long recordings. She collaborates with DARCLE.org and CCWD, which analyze child-centered speech. She is also part of the JHU CHiME5, CHiME6, SRE18 and SRE19, SRE20, SRE21, LRE22 teams. Her interests include diarization, speech recognition, speaker recognition, machine learning, and language processing.