Teaching

• Co-lecturer

  • DSAIT4095 (MSc): Inclusive Speech Technology (with Odette Scharenborg). Language and Speech Technology Theme.
  • DSAIT4065 (MSc): Conversational Agent (With Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, Stephanie Tan, Iulia Lefter). Human-Centred AI Theme.

• Guest Lecturer

  • Inclusive Speech Technology. VU Amsterdam. Invited by Kousar Aslam. 06/2025.
  • Towards pathological speech recognition. University of Zurich. Invited by Sarah Ebling. 05/2022, 05/2023.

Supervisor

• Master thesis

  • Xin Wan (Co-supervised with Odette Scharenborg). Dysarthric Speech Recognition Fusing Large Pre-trained Model Extracted Acoustic Features with Articulatory Data. (06/2024-06/2025). TU Delft.
  • Xinrui Xu. Dysarthric Speech Recognition Fusing Large Pre-trained Model Extracted Acoustic Features with Articulatory Data. (03/2024-11/03/2025). TU Delft.
  • Jingxian Liu (Co-supervised with Odette Scharenborg, Tanvina Patel). Comparing and Analyzing Different Speech Conversion Techniques for Transforming Dysarthric to Normal Speech. (01/2023-29/05/2024). TU Delft.
  • Thomas Kluiters (Co-supervised with Odette Scharenborg). Towards State-of-the-art Speech Recognition for the Dutch Language - A ground-up approach. TU Delft.
  • Mohamed-Yusuf Noor (Co-supervised with Odette Scharenborg). _Enhancing the Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech using Diffusion-based Voice Conversion. _(Paused). TU Delft.

• Bachelor thesis

  • Franz Zeisler. _Reducing Bias in State-of-the-Art ASR Systems for Child Speech - Addressing Age and Gender Disparities through Transfer Learning Strategies. _TU Delft. 27/06/2024.
  • Mirella Günther. Improving State-of-the-Art ASR Systems for Speakers with Dysarthria - Applying Low-Rank Adaptation Transfer Learning to Whisper. TU Delft. 27/06/2024.
  • Orhan Ağaoğlu. How Does OpenAI’s Whisper Interpret Dysarthric Speech? - An Analysis of Acoustic Feature Probing and Representation Layers for Dysarthic Speech. TU Delft. 27/06/2024.
  • Filip Nguyen Duc. Evaluating Alternative Metrics for Dysarthric Speech Recognition - Assessing the Effectiveness of Different Evaluation Metrics in Dysarthric Speech Recognition Systems Across Various Severities. TU Delft. 27/06/2024.
  • Christopher Charlesworth. Automatic Dysarthria Severity Assessment using Whisper-extracted Features - Evaluating ML architectures for dysarthria severity assessment on TORGO and MSDM. TU Delft. 27/06/2024.

• Bachelor software project

  • Coach. KidneyKeeper - Promoting Kidney Health for Young Adults. With Maastricht University - MERLN Institute. 04-06/2025.
  • Coach. AI Writes Tools for People. With JetBrains N.V.. 04-06/2025.
  • Client. Spectral: A Toolkit for Comparative Atypical Speech Analysis and Recording (Open Sourced). Yousef El Bakri, Quinton den Haan, Thijs Houben, Roman Knyazhitskiy, Odysseas Machairas. 04-06/2024.
  • Coach. Humanities: Watermarks New. 04-06/2023.
  • Coach. KiteSurf: VR Serious game for learning complex skills New. 04-06/2023.

Examiner

• Master Defence

  • Selena Mendez. Backdoor Attacks in Active Learning - An Extensive Analysis of Backdoor Injection in Active Learning-Trained Computer Vision Models. (Supervisors: Georgios Smaragdakis, Stjepan Picek, Stefanos Koffas). TU Delft. 17-04-2025.
  • Xinrui Xu. Dysarthric Speech Recognition Fusing Large Pre-trained Model Extracted Acoustic Features with Articulatory Data. (Supervisors: Zhengjun Yue, Odette Scharenborg). TU Delft. 11-03-2025
  • Ee Xuan Tan. Empowering Users to Handle Misinformation in Podcasts. (Supervisor: Ujwal Gadiraju). TU Delft. 13-12-2024.
  • Ignjat Pejic. Adding Context to Alerts. (Supervisor: Georgios Smaragdakis, Y. Zhauniarovich). TU Delft. 27-08-2024.
  • Dinghao Xue._ Leveraging Large Foundation Models for Zero-Shot IoT Sensing._ (Supervisors: Qun Song, Koen Langendoen). TU Delft. 28-06-2024.
  • Zhihao Xu. Demystifying LLM Attacks And Defense - A Comprehensive Study with Improved Attack Technique. (Supervisor: Georgios Smaragdakis, Stjepan Picek, Yuekang Li). TU Delft. 18-06-2024.
  • Jingxian Xu. Comparing and Analyzing Different Speech Conversion Techniques for Transforming Dysarthric to Normal Speech. (Supervisors: Odette Scharenborg, Tanvina Patel, Zhengjun Yue). TU Delft. 29-05-2024.
  • Bram Pronk. APPROACHES FOR MAPPING UNIQUE PHENOTYPE SCREENS TO A GENETIC INTERACTION NETWORK. (Supervisors: Lodewyk F.A. Wessels, Guizela H. Prince, Joana de Pinho Goncalves). TU Delft. 08-09-2023.
  • Rembrandt Oltmans. Clearing the Air - An Exploration of Pulmonologists’ Needs and Intents in Explainable AI Solutions for Respiratory Medicine. (Supervisors: Jie Yang, Christoph Lofi, Jiwon Jung). TU Delft. 31-08-2023.

• Bachelor Defence

• Software Project