PHD AND POSTDOC PROJECTS

CASPR funded projects:

PhD Project: Brain-Informed Acoustic Signal Processing for Hearing Assistive Devices
PhD student: Asjid Tanveer
Supervisors: Jan Østergaard, Zheng-Hua Tan,  and Jesper Jensen

PhD Project: Speech Enhancement using Sequence Modelling Architectures and Spoken LLMs
PhD student: Nikolai Lund Kühne
Supervisors: Zheng-Hua Tan, Jan Østergaard, and Jesper Jensen

PhD Project: Quantifying Speech Comprehension using LLMs and EEG
PhD student: Sif Bjerre Lindby
Supervisors: Jan Østergaard, Zheng-Hua Tan, and Jesper Jensen

PhD Project: Self-supervised learning for Speech Source Detection
PhD student: Holger Severin Bovbjerg
Supervisors: Zheng-Hua Tan, Jan Østergaard, and Jesper Jensen

Projects within CASPR scope and supervised by CASPR members:

PhD project: Minimizing Listening Effort by Brain Feedback
PhD Student: Sangeeth Geetha Jayaprakash
Supervisors: Rodrigo Ordones, Ole Kæseler Andersen, Jan Østergaard
Support: Independent Research Fund Denmark

PhD project: Informed Adaptive Multi-Microphone Pre-Processing based Speech Enhancement for Wireless Speech Communication
PhD student: Andreas Jonas Fuglsig
Supervisors: Zheng-Hua Tan, Jan Østergaard, Peter Mariager, Ricco Jensen
Support: Innovation Fund Denmark and RTX A/S

Quantification of perceived quality of sound fields with dynamic relations between listener positions and audio objects.
PhD Student: Pia Nancy Porysek Moreta
Supervisors: Søren Bech, Neo Kaplanis, Jan Østergaard, Steven van de Par.
Support: EU Marie S. Curie ITN: SOUNDS

PhD project: Distributed Sound Processing for Hearing Aid Applications.
PhD student: Vasudha Sathyapriyan
Supervisors: Jesper Jensen, Jan Østergaard, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Mike Brookes, Patrick Naylor.
Support: EU Marie S. Curie ITN: SOUNDS

Former projects:

Industrial PhD Project: User-Symbiotic Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids
PhD student: Poul Hoang
Supervisors: Zheng-Hua Tan, Jan-Mark de Haan and Thomas Lunner, and Jesper Jensen
Support: Innovation Fund Denmark and Oticon A/S

PhD Project: Signal quality estimation for speech enhancement using miniature EEG devices
PhD Student: Payam Shahsavari Baboukani
Supervisors: Jan Østergaard and Carina Graversen

Industrial Postdoc Project: Brain-Inspired Jointly Optimal Hearing Loss Compensation and Noise Reduction for Hearing Assistive Devices
Postdoc Researcher: Adel Zahedi (former)
Supervisors: Jan Østergaard, Michael S. Pedersen, Thomas U. Christiansen, Lars Bramsløw, Jesper Jensen
Support: Innovation Fund Denmark and Oticon A/S

PhD Project: Training Methods for DNNs Under Computational Resource Constraints
PhD Student: Morten Østergaard Nielsen
Supervisors: Jan Østergaard, Zheng-Hua Tan, Jesper Jensen

PhD Project: Cortical tracking of auditory object-based selective attention to improve perceived sound quality.
PhD student: Adele Maryse Daniele Simon
Supervisors: Jan Østergaard, Gerard Sylvian Jean Marie Loquet, Søren Bech
Support: Innovation Fund Denmark and B&O A/S

PhD Project: Intelligibility-Aware Hearing Assistive Devices – Intelligibility Prediction
PhD student: Mathias Bach Pedersen
Supervisors: Søren Holdt Jensen, Asger H. Andersen and Jesper Jensen
Support: Independent Research Fund Denmark

Industrial Postdoc Project: Vision-Assisted Hearing Aid Systems
Postdoc Researcher: Daniel Michelsanti
Supervisors: Zheng-Hua Tan, Sergi Rotger Griful, and Jesper Jensen
Support: Innovation Fund Denmark and Oticon A/S

Postdoc Project: Low-resource Keyword Spotting for Hearing Assistive Devices
Postdoc Researcher: Ivan Lopez-Espejo
Supervisors: Zheng-Hua Tan, Jesper Jensen

Postdoc Project: Intelligibility-Aware Hearing Assistive Devices – Intelligibility Enhancement
Postdoc Researcher: Morten Kolbæk (former)
Supervisors: Søren Holdt Jensen, Zheng-Hua Tan and Jesper Jensen
Support: Independent Research Fund Denmark

PhD Project: Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement for Hearing Assistive Devices
PhD student: Daniel Michelsanti
Supervisors: Zheng-Hua Tan, Sigurdur Sigurdsson and Jesper Jensen

Alumni:

  • Morten Kolbæk (postdoc)
  • Adel Zahedi (postdoc)