Senior Researcher – Computer Science Institute, UBA-CONICET
Mail: lferrer at dc uba ar
Bio
Luciana Ferrer is a researcher at the Computer Science Institute, affiliated to the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. Luciana received her Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Stanford University, USA, in 2009, and her Electronic Engineering degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2001. Her primary research area is machine learning applied to speech and audio processing tasks.
Research Areas
- Calibration of classification systems
- Speaker and language recognition
- Evaluation of bias and fairness
- Pronunciation scoring
- Mental state detection
- Audio representation learning
- Natural language processing
Publications
Link to my Google Scholar
Awards
- Faculty Research Award from JP Morgan, 2023
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2020
- Amazon Research Award, 2020
- Google Latin-America Research Award, 2018
- Beca doctoral financiada por el National Science Foundation, EEUU, 2007
Talks
- ¿Las computadoras pueden detectar emociones? (in Spanish)
- Liga de la ciencia (in Spanish)
- Machine Learning Fundamentals with a Focus on Evaluation Practices, Khipu 2019
- The importance of Calibration in Speaker Verification, Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2020
- Decision Theory and Calibration: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Khipu 2023