Speech and health
Speech and audio processing methods that reveal clinically meaningful patterns in neurological and neurodegenerative conditions.
Faculty at UC3M · Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Laureano Moro-Velazquez
Speech technology, machine learning, and multimodal digital biomarkers for human health.
Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid · Madrid, Spain
36journal articles
78conference papers
2026latest work
Profile
About
Laureano Moro-Velazquez is a Faculty and Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His research lies at the intersection of speech and audio processing, machine learning, and digital health. He develops inclusive and privacy-aware speech technologies and multimodal digital biomarkers based on speech, eye movements, handwriting, and gait, with particular emphasis on neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Before joining UC3M, he was an Assistant Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). He has served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, and co-investigator on projects supported by organizations including NSF, NIH, IARPA, and Amazon, is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Language and Speech Processing, and has extensive experience teaching and mentoring students across engineering, speech technology, and AI for medicine.
Focus
Research themes
Multimodal biomarkers
Machine-learning approaches that combine speech, eye movement, handwriting, gait, and other biosignals.
Responsible speech AI
Inclusive, privacy-aware, and trustworthy speech systems for atypical speech and sensitive clinical settings.
Scholarship
Publications
Researchers supervised by Prof. Moro-Velazquez are underlined.
Selected work
2026
HeyJay! A corpus of atypical speech for spoken language understanding and automatic speech recognition
Scientific Data
2026
WearGait-PD: An open-access wearables dataset for gait in Parkinson’s disease and age-matched controls
Scientific Data
2025
Deep Stroop: Integrating eye tracking and speech processing to characterize people with neurodegenerative disorders while performing neuropsychological tests
Computers in Biology and Medicine
2025
Interpretable Features for the Assessment of Neurodegenerative Diseases through Handwriting Analysis
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
2024
Unveiling Early Signs of Parkinson’s Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis of Public Speech Recordings from Celebrities
npj Parkinson's Disease
2024
Automating the analysis of eye movement for different neurodegenerative disorders
Computers in Biology and Medicine
All publications
2026
HeyJay! A corpus of atypical speech for spoken language understanding and automatic speech recognition
Scientific Data
2026
CapSpeech: Enabling Downstream Applications in Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
2026
Solospeech: Enhancing intelligibility and quality in target speech extraction through a cascaded generative pipeline
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
2026
WearGait-PD: An open-access wearables dataset for gait in Parkinson’s disease and age-matched controls
Scientific Data
2026
Towards Fair Speech Recognition: Mitigating Demographic Bias in End-to-End ASR Systems
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)
DOI ↗2026
Beyond Transcripts: Iterative Peer-Editing with Audio Unlocks High-Quality Human Summaries of Conversational Speech
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)
DOI ↗2026
Layer-Aware Early Fusion of Acoustic and Linguistic Embeddings for Cognitive Status Classification
2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2026
MaskVCT: Masked Voice Codec Transformer for Zero-Shot Voice Conversion With Increased Controllability via Multiple Guidances
2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2026
Cross-Corpus and Cross-domain Handwriting Assessment of NeuroDegenerative Diseases via Time-Series-to-Image Conversion
2026 48th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
2025
Deep Stroop: Integrating eye tracking and speech processing to characterize people with neurodegenerative disorders while performing neuropsychological tests
Computers in Biology and Medicine
2025
Interpretable Features for the Assessment of Neurodegenerative Diseases through Handwriting Analysis
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
2025
Detecting neurodegenerative diseases using frame-level handwriting embeddings
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2025
Unveiling performance bias in asr systems: A study on gender, age, accent, and more
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2025
Impact of Temporal Precision on Speech Synthesis Accuracy From Electrocorticographic Brain Signals
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2025
The interspeech 2025 challenge on speech emotion recognition in naturalistic conditions
Proc. Interspeech 2025
2025
Challenges and practical guidelines for atypical speech data collection, annotation, usage and sharing: A multi-project perspective
Proc. Interspeech 2025
2025
FaiST: A Benchmark Dataset for Fairness in Speech Technology
Proc. Interspeech 2025
2025
ADCeleb: A Longitudinal Speech Dataset from Public Figures for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
Proc. Interspeech 2025
2025
PPX-Anon: Prosody, Pitch and X-Vectors for De-Anonymization; our submission to the Voice Attacker Challenge 2024
Proc. SPSC 2025
2025
Paired by the Teacher: Turning Unpaired Data into High-Fidelity Pairs for Low-Resource Text Generation
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2025
Advancing Alzheimer’s Disease Detection via Multimodal Fusion of Speech and Eye Movement Data
2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
2025
Toward Inclusive Large-Scale Alzheimer’s Disease Detection via Speech and Language Modeling
2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
2025
Leveraging Eye-Tracking Signals for Neurodegenerative Disease Classification with Deep Learning Models
2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
2025
Sampling Rate Guidelines for Eye-Tracking in Neurological Disorders: A Task-Specific Multimetric Analysis
2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
2024
Unveiling Early Signs of Parkinson’s Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis of Public Speech Recordings from Celebrities
npj Parkinson's Disease
2024
Automating the analysis of eye movement for different neurodegenerative disorders
Computers in Biology and Medicine
2024
Slowness Regularized Contrastive Predictive Coding for Acoustic Unit Discovery
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
2024
Time Scale Network: An Efficient Shallow Neural Network For Time Series Data in Biomedical Applications
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
2024
Time-domain speech super-resolution with gan based modeling for telephony speaker verification
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
2024
Multimodal characterization of Alzheimer's Disease using speech, eye movement, and handwriting
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
2024
Discovering Invariant Patterns of Cognitive Decline Via an Automated Analysis of the Cookie Thief Picture Description Task
Proceedings Odyssey 2024
2024
CA-SSLR: Condition-Aware Self-Supervised Learning Representation for Generalized Speech Processing
Proceedings of NeurIPS 2024 (accepted)
2024
Odyssey 2024-Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge: Dataset, Baseline Framework, and Results
Proceedings Odyssey 2024
2024
Finding Spoken Identifications: Using GPT-4 Annotation for an Efficient and Fast Dataset Creation Pipeline
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
2024
Exploring the Complementary Nature of Speech and Eye Movements for Profiling Neurological Disorders
Proceedings of Interspeech 2024
2024
Leveraging Universal Speech Representations for Detecting and Assessing the Severity of Mild Cognitive Impairment Across Languages
Proceedings of Interspeech 2024
2024
Noise-robust Speech Separation with Fast Generative Correction
Proceedings of Interspeech 2024
2024
Cognitive Assessment through Writing Tasks
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
2024
Analyzing Attention Focus in the Cookie TheftPicture Description Task Using Word Alignment
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
2024
Dynamics of Handwriting for Cognitive Assessment
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
2024
Consistent Explainable features for Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment through Handwriting
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
2024
Multimodal Analysis of Behavior During Stroop Test for Characterization of Alzheimer's Disease Signs
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
2023
Interpretable speech features vs. DNN embeddings: What to use in the automatic assessment of Parkinson’s disease in multi-lingual scenarios
Computers in Biology and Medicine
2023
Multilingual evaluation of interpretable biomarkers to represent language and speech patterns in Parkinson's disease
Frontiers in Neurology
2023
Vsameter: Evaluation of a new open-source tool to measure vowel space area and related metrics
2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)
2023
A multi-modal array of interpretable features to evaluate language and speech patterns in different neurological disorders
2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)
2023
Self-FiLM: Conditioning GANs with self-supervised representations for bandwidth extension based speaker recognition
Proceedings of Interspeech 2023
2023
Segmental speechclip: Utilizing pretrained image-text models for audio-visual learning
Proceedings of Interspeech 2023
2023
DuTa-VC: A Duration-aware Typical-to-atypical Voice Conversion Approach with Diffusion Probabilistic Model
Proceedings of Interspeech 2023
2023
Do phonatory features display robustness to characterize Parkinsonian speech across corpora?
Proceedings of Interspeech 2023
2023
Multi-task analysis of oculographic biomarkers to evaluate motoric and cognitive patterns in Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer's & Dementia
2023
Evaluation of Interpretable Speech Biomarkers for Monitoring Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Progression
Alzheimer's & Dementia
2023
Handwriting characteristics analysis for Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairments Assessment
Alzheimer's & Dementia
2023
Cumulative Pair-wise Vowel Distance (CPVD): New Vowel Space Metrics for People with Atypical Speech
13th Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA)
2023
Hermespeech recorder: a new open-source web platform to record speech to the cloud
13th Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA)
2023
Improving fairness for spoken language understanding in atypical speech with Text-to-Speech
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation with Generative AI
2023
Binocular Discoordination Kinetic Features: A Novel Approach to Evaluate Neurodegenerative Diseases
2023 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB)
2023
Model-Based Fairness Metric for Speaker Verification
2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)
2022
Unsupervised speech segmentation and variable rate representation learning using segmental contrastive predictive coding
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
2022
Things to consider when automatically detecting Parkinson’s disease using the phonation of sustained vowels: analysis of methodological issues
Applied Sciences
2022
Discovering phonetic inventories with crosslingual automatic speech recognition
Computer Speech & Language
2022
Non-contrastive self-supervised learning for utterance-level information extraction from speech
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
2022
Automatic Extraction of Oculographic Signals as Digital Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's & Dementia
2022
Artificial intelligence tools to evaluate language and speech patterns in Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's & Dementia
2022
Phonatory Analysis on Parkinson's Disease Patients Attending Singing and Discussion Therapy (Parkinsonics) using Signal Processing Techniques
2022 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB)
2022
Cognitive and acoustic speech and language patterns occurring in different neurodegenerative disorders while performing neuropsychological tests
2022 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB)
2022
Analysis of interpretable handwriting features to evaluate motoric patterns in different neurodegenerative diseases
2022 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB)
2022
Joint domain adaptation and speech bandwidth extension using time-domain GANs for speaker verification
Proceedings of Interspeech 2022
2022
Non-contrastive self-supervised learning of utterance-level speech representations
Proceedings of Interspeech 2022
2021
Advances in Parkinson's disease detection and assessment using voice and speech: A review of the articulatory and phonatory aspects
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
2021
Influence of upper airway surgery on voice and speech recognition
Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
2021
Study of pre-processing defenses against adversarial attacks on state-of-the-art speaker recognition systems
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security,
2021
On the design of automatic voice condition analysis systems. Part III: Review of acoustic modelling strategies
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
2021
How phonotactics affect multilingual and zero-shot asr performance
2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2021
Copypaste: An augmentation method for speech emotion recognition
2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2021
A Review of the Use of Prosodic Aspects of Speech for the Automatic Detection and Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease
Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop
2021
Approaches to Evaluate Parkinsonian Speech Using Artificial Models
Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop
2021
New tools for the differential evaluation of Parkinson’s disease using voice and speech processing
Proceedings of Iberspeech 2021
2021
Unsupervised acoustic unit discovery by leveraging a language-independent subword discriminative feature representation
Proceedings of Interpeech 2021
2021
Deep feature cyclegans: Speaker identity preserving non-parallel microphone-telephone domain adaptation for speaker verification
Proceedings of Interpeech 2021
2021
Segmental contrastive predictive coding for unsupervised word segmentation
Proceedings of Interpeech 2021
2021
Pathological voice adaptation with autoencoder-based voice conversion
11th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop
2021
Automatic detection and assessment of Alzheimer Disease using speech and language technologies in low-resource scenarios
Proceedings of Interspeech 2021
2021
Align-Denoise: Single-Pass Non-Autoregressive Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of Interspeech 2021
2021
Beyond isolated utterances: Conversational emotion recognition
2021 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)
2020
Analysis of the effects of supraglottal tract surgical procedures in automatic speaker recognition performance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
2020
Artificial intelligence applied to chest X-ray images for the automatic detection of COVID-19. A thoughtful evaluation approach
Ieee Access
2020
Effect of functional endoscopic sinus surgery on voice and speech recognition
Journal of Voice
2020
Using x-vectors to automatically detect parkinson’s disease from speech
2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2020
That sounds familiar: an analysis of phonetic representations transfer across languages
Proceedings of Interspeech 2020
2020
Using State of the Art Speaker Recognition and Natural Language Processing Technologies to Detect Alzheimer's Disease and Assess its Severity.
Proceedings of Interspeech 2020
2019
A forced gaussians based methodology for the differential evaluation of Parkinson's Disease by means of speech processing
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
2019
Phonetic relevance and phonemic grouping of speech in the automatic detection of Parkinson’s Disease
Scientific reports
2019
On the design of automatic voice condition analysis systems. Part II: Review of speaker recognition techniques and study on the effects of different variability factors
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
2019
On the design of automatic voice condition analysis systems. Part I: Review of concepts and an insight to the state of the art
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
2019
Effect of septoplasty on voice performance: nasalance and acoustic study
Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
2019
Emulating the perceptual capabilities of a human evaluator to map the GRB scale for the assessment of voice disorders
Engineering applications of artificial intelligence
2019
Study of the Performance of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Speakers with Parkinson’s Disease
Proceedings of Interspeech 2019
2019
Analysis of phonatory features for the automatic detection of Parkinson’s disease in two different corpora
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA)
2019
LSTM siamese network for Parkinson’s disease detection from speech
2019 ieee global conference on signal and information processing (globalsip)
2018
Analysis of speaker recognition methodologies and the influence of kinetic changes to automatically detect Parkinson's Disease
Applied Soft Computing
2018
Analysis of video-oculographic registers for the discrimination of Parkinson’s disease
School and symposium on advanced neurorehabilitation (SSNR2018)
2018
Study of the automatic detection of Parkison’s disease based on speaker recognition technologies and allophonic distillation
2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
2018
Byovoz automatic voice condition analysis system for the 2018 FEMH challenge
2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
2017
Towards the identification of Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease from the speech. New articulatory kinetic biomarkers
PloS one
2017
Use of acoustic landmarks and GMM-UBM blend in the automatic detection of Parkinson’s Disease
Proceedings of the Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications: 10th International Workshop, Firenze, Italy
2017
On the design of a voice pathology assessment system based on the GRB scale.
Proc. 10th Int. Workshop Models Anal. Vocal Emissions Biomed. Appl.
2016
Voice pathology detection using modulation spectrum-optimized metrics
Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology
2016
An insight to the automatic categorization of speakers according to sex and its application to the detection of voice pathologies: A comparative study
Revista Facultad de Ingenier\'a Universidad de Antioquia
2015
An automatic method to detect and track the glottal gap from high speed videoendoscopic images
BioMedical Engineering OnLine
2015
Modulation spectra morphological parameters: A new method to assess voice pathologies according to the grbas scale
BioMed research international
2015
Automatic age detection in normal and pathological voice
Proceedings of Interspeech 2015
2015
Tuning of modulation spectrum parameters for voice pathology detection
Proceedings of the Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications: 9th International Workshop, Firenze, Italy
2014
Analysis of Complexity and Modulation Spectra parameterizations to characterize Voice Roughness
Proceedings of Iberspeech 2014
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Open research
Selected datasets & software
Some public datasets and research software resulting from Prof. Moro-Velazquez's research.
2026
HeyJay! dataset, A Corpus of Atypical Speech for Spoken Language Understanding and Automatic Speech Recognition, United States, 2023-2024 (ICPSR 39448)
View resource ↗2026
FaiST: Fairness in Speech Technology
View resource ↗2026
StanceBench: A Benchmark for Audio LLM-Based Interpersonal Stance Evaluation from Speech
View resource ↗2025
CapSpeech: Enabling Downstream Applications in Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech
View resource ↗2025
SoloSpeech: Enhancing Intelligibility and Quality in Target Speech Extraction through a Cascaded Generative Pipeline
View resource ↗2025
ADCeleb: A Longitudinal Speech Dataset from Public Figures for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
View resource ↗2025
WearGaitPD: Wearables for gait in Parkinson's Disease and age-matched controls
View resource ↗2025
Vox-Profile: A Speech Foundation Model Benchmark for Characterizing Diverse Speaker and Speech Traits
View resource ↗2024
ParkCeleb: A Novel Longitudinal Corpus for Evaluating Speech Patterns in People with Parkinson's Disease During the Prodromal Period
View resource ↗Recognition
Awards, Fellowships & Accreditations
2026
R3 Certificate (Established Researcher), Spanish State Research Agency (AEI). National accreditation recognizing research quality and independence.
2025
Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), a competitive five-year national fellowship supporting researchers with distinguished scientific trajectories.
2025
JHU Whiting School of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award which honors the extraordinary dedication to the JHU’s teaching mission, exceptional performance in the classroom, and a continuing commitment to tomorrow’s leaders. This recognition was given to 5 professors out of more than 475 faculty members in 2025.
2025
Best poster award at the 2025 Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) Annual Meeting, with the poster “Multimodal digital biomarkers of frailty: an exploration of speech and handwriting”.
2025
Distinguished Scholar of the 2025 AI, Technology, and Aging Summit, held in Washington DC in May 2025. This recognition reflects the strength of the recipient’s work and their potential to lead in the AI, technology and aging interdisciplinary space.
2022
AI2AI JHU+Amazon faculty award to conduct research on the project “Improving Spoken Language Understanding for People with Atypical Speech”.
2021
Best Ph. D. Thesis Award at ISCA-Iberspeech 2021 conference.
2021
Nominated for the Supervisor of the Year Award 2021, by the University Experiential Learning at JHU.
2020
Teaching as research fellowship, awarded by the Center for Educational Resources at JHU.
2018
Best paper in an international journal award, granted by the Spanish Excellence Network on Speech Technology (RTTH).
2017
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness mobility grant: 4 months stay at Johns Hopkins University (USA) under the guidance of Prof. Najim Dehak.
2017
Technical University of Madrid mobility grant: XV ayudas del Consejo Social. 4 months stay at Johns Hopkins University (USA) under the guidance of Prof. Najim Dehak.
2015
Finalist to the IEEE-Spain technological Enterpreneurship/Startup 2015 price with the startup IngeVox.
2014
Best academic record award in Computer Science Technologies and Engineering at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
2013
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain Fellowship in Neurovoz project (four-year fellowship).
2013
National award Liberalización de las Telecomunicaciones on the field Sound and Image Engineering granted by the Association of Telecommunications Engineers of Spain.
2013
GRAudio institute award to the best acoustic Project at The School of Telecommunications Systems and Engineering of the Technical University of Madrid (ETSIST-UPM).
Selected appearances
Invited talks
Speech technologies in Healthcare
Invited guest lecture in the course Speech Recognition and Processing for Multimedia, from Professor Shrikanth Narayanan. University of Southern California. March 2026
Finding robust speech digital biomarkers in the prodromal period of neurodegenerative disorders
Venue: Invited speaker to the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics Annual Meeting (ASENT 2025), Bethesda (USA), March 2025. Organized by: American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics.
Multimodal digital biomarkers of neurodegenerative disorders
Venue: Invited speaker to the Ming Hsieh Institute at University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA), January 2025. Organized by: Shrikanth Narayanan at University of Southern California.
Multimodal evaluation of neurodegenerative disorders with portable equipment Venue: 1st ACM Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Computing for AgeTech, Washington DC (USA), November 2024
Organized by: MASSAITC NIA center. Workshop chairs: Benjamin Marlin and Deepak Ganesan.
The role of speech and multimodal technologies in medicine
Venue: Seminar at the Language, Literature and Antropology Institute at the Spanish Scientific Research Council, Madrid (Spain), September 2024. Organized by: Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC)
Regulatory readiness of Digital Biomarkers (panel discussion) Venue: The 2nd Digital Biomarker Summit USA, Tarrytown, NY (USA), May 2024
Organized by: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Speech technologies in medicine: from diagnosis to enhanced communication Venue: Invited Speaker at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Intelligent Systems, Delft (The Netherlands), July 2023
Organized by: Delft Technical University
The sound of speech in the medicine of the future (Plenary speaker) Venue: Tecniacustica 2022, Elche (Spain), November 2022
Organized by: The Acoustical Society of Spain.
Using Machine Learning to Diagnose Neurological Diseases (Plenary speaker) Venue: 11th EdukCircle International Convention on Engineering and Computer Technology, Manila/on-line (Philippines), April 2022
Organized by: The EdukCircle, Philippines.
Using Speech and Machine Learning in the Diagnosis of Neurological Diseases Venue: Machine learning in natural language processing summit, Toronto/on-line (Canada), September 2021
Organized by: Toronto Machine Learning Society
Academic community
Professional service
Leadership and organizing roles
- Area Chair of the Speech and Language Processing for Health track at Interspeech 2026 Sydney, Australia, September 2026.
- Chair of the Signal Processing sessions on the IEEE 59th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, USA, March 2025.
- Organizer of the Speech track of Forum Acusticum 2025, organized by the European Society of Acoustics in Malaga, Spain, June 2025.
- Organizer of the Speech Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Conditions Challenge at Interspeech 2025, with 92 teams participating and 276 submissions.
- Chair of the Machine Learning models for mental and neurological health session at the 2025 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Organizing Committee of Odyssey 2024, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, hosted by Ecole de Technologie Superieure – Universite du Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June 2024.
- Organizer of the Emotion Recognition Challenge at Odyssey 2024, January-June 2024.
- Scientific Committee of the Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop 2024 (AAPSW2024).
- General Chair of the IEEE 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Hosted by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, March 2023.
- Scientific secretariat of Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop 2019 (AAPSW2019)
- Organizing committee of the Department of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering Retreat at JHU from 2021 to 2024.
- Chair of the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) Student Seminar Committee from 2022 to 2024.
Reviewing and editorial service
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (Associate Editor since July 2025)
- Nature Reviews Neurology
- npj Digital Medicine
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
- IEEE Access
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- Scientific Reports
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Speech Communication
- Journal of Parkinson’s Disease
- Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
- Computer Speech & Language
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
- Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology
- Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
- Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
- Exploration of Medicine
- Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
- International Conference on Biological Information and Biomedical Engineering (BIBE)
- Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
- Loquens
Grant proposal review
- US National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Professional memberships
- International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IEEE’s Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS)
- Speech Technologies Association of Spain (RTTH)
- Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB)
- The Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART)