Hi, I'm Candy! I am a senior lecturer 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 and language processing, acoustic phonetics, trustworthy AI, human-computer interaction.
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We are pleased to welcome Ms. Pawanvaree Gonsup to our laboratory as an intern from Mahidol University, Thailand. She will be conducting a research project here at JAIST for approximately three months (from May 14 to August 6). To kick off her stay, we hosted a small welcome party to introduce her to the team.
We are excited to share that two of our papers have been accepted for publication at the IEEE ICME 2026 Grand Challenge: ESDD2 (Environment-Aware Speech and Sound Deepfake Detection Challenge). The challenge tackles component-level spoofing—where both speech and environmental sounds are manipulated or synthesized—presenting a much more realistic and complex detection scenario.
Had a fantastic time at ICASSP 2026 in Barcelona, Spain! I had the privilege of presenting our work, Multi-modal feature fusion and stacking ensemble learning for lyric intelligibility prediction, at the 1st Cadenza Lyric Prediction Grand Challenge. Beyond the sessions, it was great catching up with colleagues and engaging in community events like the Women in Signal Processing and Micro Mentoring Experience (MiME) meetings. Truly a rewarding week of networking and research exchange!
During the Spring quarter (Term 1-1/April–June), I am instructing I225E Statistical Signal Processing.
We celebrated the graduation of our Master's and PhD students today! A special congratulations to my minor research student from Material Science, Ms. Denawati Junia, who is also a MEXT scholar. Huge congratulations to all the graduates on this wonderful milestone!
Our paper, Multilingual Deepfake Speech Dataset for Robust and Generalizable Detection, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
We successfully hosted the closing meeting of the ASEAN-IVO project in a hybrid format (online and in Bangkok, Thailand). The project has concluded successfully, bringing together research members from Thailand, Myanmar, Brunei, Indonesia, and Japan. We also discussed promising prospects for future collaboration.
Our paper, Privacy-Aware Speaker Trait Estimation in Job Interviews Using Voice Anonymization, has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports (a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Nature Portfolio).
Two of our papers were presented at the domestic conference 高機能マルチメディア研究会（IEICE-EMM.
Reflecting on a year of growth and looking forward to the opportunities that 2026 holds. May this year bring new breakthroughs, successful collaborations, and continued innovation to us all. Happy New Year!