Rishabh Jain

Bio

RISHABH JAIN received the B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in 2019, and the M.S. degree in data analytics from the University of Galway, Ireland in 2020. He received his Ph.D. degree in Sound Processing and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Galway under the guidance of Dr. Peter Corcoran in 2024. He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin with Dr. Naomi Harte. His research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence, specifically in the domains of speech understanding, text-to-speech, speaker recognition, automatic speech recognition, and audio-visual speech recognition.

Rishabh has extensive experience as a Research Assistant at the University of Galway, where he worked on the DTIF-DAVID Project, a collaboration between XPERI, SoapBox Labs, and University of Galway funded by Enterprise Ireland (EI). He also served as a Research Scientist at Oxford Wave Research Ltd, conducting research on training models in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Large Languae Models (LLMs) for low-resource languages.

His Ph.D. research focused on enhancing child speech technologies in Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech-To-Text (STT), optimizing models for realistic synthetic child speech, improving child ASR performance, applying data augmentation techniques, integrating TTS and ASR technologies into interactive smart toys, and developing facial animation pipelines for synthetic-speaking children, with a strong emphasis on creating nuanced, ethical applications in speech technology for children.