Mentorship & Supervision
I love collaborating with motivated students. If you're interested in machine learning for speech & audio (speech foundation models, audio LLMs, ASR / TTS, multilingual and low-resource speech, or robust and trustworthy audio AI), feel free to reach out. I'm happy to discuss Master's thesis ideas, semester projects, and research collaborations in Germany or anywhere in the EU.
👨🎓 Current Master's Students
- Enes Erdogan
Robust speech deepfake detection - Feidi Kallel
Attentive SSL fusion for spoofing detection
🌍 Research Programs & Mentorship
- HackAI Morocco 2026
Returning as Speech ML mentor and joining the PhD Students panel on research career paths. - HackAI Morocco 2025
Mentored student teams on Speech Recognition and Forced Alignment for low-resource dialects. - SDAIA Winter School 2024
Led a team of 15 researchers to build QuranMB, the first expert-annotated dataset for Quranic mispronunciation. - SDAIA Summer School 2024
Invited researcher in the SDAIA Summer School program on Arabic speech and language modeling. - Iqra'Eval Shared Task
Mentoring a multi-institutional team on Arabic pronunciation assessment.
🎓 Looking for a Master's Thesis or Internship?
If you're an EU-based Master's student looking for a thesis topic, or a researcher interested in collaboration on any of the above areas, I'm happy to chat. Reach out by email.