Dr. Parisa Haghani of Google

Biography:

Parisa Haghani is a Senior Staff member at Google Speech, where she leads a team of research scientists and engineers on automated speech recognition (ASR) research. Her research interests span areas of speech recognition, understanding, and transferring successful research ideas to production. Her work on end-to-end spoken language understanding was integral to features widely used in Google Assistant nowadays. More recently, she has led the research and productionization of multilingual speech recognition. She currently focuses on core research, quality, and internationalization with a focus on Google Cloud speech-to-text services. She specializes in developing machine learning techniques for multilingual end-to-end speech modeling, adaptation methods, data minimization, and knowledge distillation. Her work has been published in top-tier speech conferences including INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, ASRU, and SLT. Parisa received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer engineering from Isfahan and Sharif University of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from EPFL Switzerland in 2010 after which she spent a year at UIUC before joining Google in 2011.