I am a PhD student in the Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory under mentorship of professor Shrikanth Narayanan.

My research has two main directions: nonlinear filtering and multimodal fusion for multi-target tracking problems; and statistical learning in problems which involve overlapping classes and/or uncertainty in class labels introduced by human perception. Applications/datasets that I am currently working on include: meeting participant tracking in Smart Room environments, emotion recognition and mathematical modeling of speech articulation.

Generally my research interests include: stochastic processes, nonlinear filtering theory (sequential Monte Carlo and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods), statistical learning theory (model identification for switching and variable order Markov models, soft-label classification).