Talks
Talks, conference presentations, and an open invitation to collaborate. I am happy to hear from students and researchers anywhere.
Presentations
- October 2026. GrokBot Casablanca Meetup. Invited talk, MoulSot: the first Darija ASR model, with Abdeljalil El Majjodi. Event · MoulSot · model
- September 2026. Interspeech, Sydney. Presented DeepFense (long track) and the IQRA 2026 pronunciation challenge, and co-authored Evidence Subspace Projection with the University of Stuttgart. Program · DeepFense · code
- May 2026. HackAI Morocco. Speech ML mentor, and panelist on the PhD students panel. hackai.ma
- December 2025. Alexandria University. Invited talk on speech AI and Arabic pronunciation. Video
- December 2025 to April 2026. NII, Tokyo. Visiting researcher with Xin Wang and Junichi Yamagishi on speech LLMs. Textual Acoustic Grounding · models
- October 2025. Reality Defender. Invited talk, generalizable audio deepfake detection. Slides
- October 2025. WASPAA, Tahoe City. Two Views, One Truth. Code
- August 2025. Interspeech, Rotterdam. BiCrossMamba-ST, and co-organizer of the ArabicSpeech meetup.
- May 2025. HackAI Morocco. Mentor on ASR and forced alignment for low-resource dialects. hackai.ma
- December 2024. SDAIA Winter School, Riyadh. Led a team of 15 researchers building QuranMB, an expert-annotated set for Quranic mispronunciation. School
- 2024. SDAIA Summer School, Riyadh. Invited researcher in the speech and language program.
Collaboration
I collaborate with students, labs, and companies anywhere in the world. If you want to work on speech foundation models, audio deepfake detection, speech LLMs, ASR or TTS, pronunciation assessment, or low-resource speech, including Arabic and Darija, write to me. Master's theses, semester projects, research visits, and joint papers are all fine.
yassine.el_kheir@dfki.de · elkheiryassine0@gmail.com
Students
I supervise MSc students at TU Berlin, including:
- Enes Erdogan, MSc, TU Berlin. Robust speech deepfake detection.
- Feidi Kallel, MSc, TU Berlin. Attentive SSL fusion for spoofing detection.
Mentoring
- HackAI Morocco, 2025 and 2026. Speech ML mentor. In 2026, also a panelist on the PhD students panel.
- SDAIA Winter School 2024, Riyadh. Team lead for QuranMB.
- SDAIA Summer School 2024, Riyadh. Speech and language program.
- Iqra'Eval, then the IQRA 2026 Interspeech challenge. Multi-institutional team on Arabic pronunciation assessment.