
Hi, I'm Candy! I am an assistant professor at School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). My primary research interests are speech signal processing, machine learning, and social signal processing (SSP). My Ph.D. thesis focuses on privacy preservation and secure speech communication. In addition to primary research, I also carried out a research project on personality traits and communication skills modeling with Prof. Shogo Okada. I obtained my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Information Science, JAIST, advised by Prof. Masashi Unoki.
Research interests: speech information hiding, voice privacy, social signal processing, and machine learning.
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Our papers Phoneme-Specific Challenges to Intelligibility in Hearing Impairment Under Noisy Condition and Study on Signal Processing Techniques in Protecting Voice Personae Against Speech Synthesis Systems have been accepted for publication in the 17th Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2025).
We had a productive time at the 6th Clarity Workshop on Improving Speech-in-Noise for Hearing Devices (Clarity-2025) in TU Delft, The Netherlands. We were excited to present our papers through both poster and oral presentations, sharing our work in improving speech intelligibility prediction for hearing devices. Our team also participated in the 3rd Clarity Prediction Challenge (CPC3), where we were proud to secure the 4th rank. It was inspiring to see so many innovative ideas from other participants on how to advance intelligibility prediction for hearing aid development. The talks on hearing aid speech enhancement were also incredibly insightful.
I had a great experience attending the Interspeech 2025 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It was a privilege to engage with the latest research and network with so many talented people in the field. I'm leaving inspired and ready to apply what I've learned.
I'm incredibly proud to announce that my co-advised students, Anh Tuc Tran and Yutong Wang, have successfully defended their master's theses. A huge congratulations to you both!
I had a great experience attending the 5th Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication (ISCA SPSC Symposium) at TU Delft. The talks were insightful, especially the keynote on Biosignal-based Authentication for Trustworthy Communication. I enjoyed the sessions and the opportunity to connect with fellow researchers in the field.
A huge congratulations to my co-advised students from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Edia Zaki Naufal Ilman and Louis Caesa Kesuma, for successfully defending their bachelor's theses! I'm grateful for the opportunity to have co-advised them alongside Dr. Dessi Puji Lestari.
Our paper Multimodal Classification of Co-speech Gesture Pragmatical function in Storytelling has been accepted for publication in the 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2025).
Proud to announce that my co-advised students, Aulia Adila and Nopparut Li, have successfully defended their master's theses. A huge congratulations to both of them from the Unoki Lab!
Our papers Integrating Linguistic and Acoustic Cues for Machine Learning-Based Speech Intelligibility Prediction in Hearing Impairment has been accepted for poster presentation and Lightweight Speech Intelligibility Prediction with Spectro-Temporal Modulation for Hearing-Impaired Listeners has been accepted for oral presentation in the 6th Clarity Workshop on Improving Speech-in-Noise for Hearing Devices (Clarity-2025)
Our paper Modeling Multi-Level Hearing Loss for Speech Intelligibility Prediction has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2025).
We presented our paper titled Robust Multilingual Audio Deepfake Detection Through Hybrid Modeling at the 13th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security. Our team took on the SAFE:Synthetic Audio Forensics Evaluation Challenge. We secured first place in the laundered audio detection task (Task 3) and landed in the top 5 for both generated audio (Task 1) and processed audio (Task 2). We're proud of our contribution to this highly competitive challenge.
A press release has been issued announcing our paper accepted in Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence.
Our paper Robust Multilingual Audio Deepfake Detection Through Hybrid Modeling has been accepted for publication in the 13th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security.
To kick off the new academic year and welcome our new members, we held a welcome party! This gathering brought together students I directly supervise for their minor research, those I primarily co-advise on their master's theses, and collaborators from various ongoing projects.
Our paper InaSAS: Benchmarking Indonesian Speech Anti-Spoofing Systems has been accepted for publication in APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
Our paper Fine-tuning TitaNet-Large Model for Speaker Anonymization Attacker Systems has been presented at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025), Hyderabad, India.
The new fiscal year 2025 has begun. This year, I will be teaching course I225E Statistical Signal Processing with Professor Unoki in Term 1-1 (April-June). Wishing you all a productive year ahead!