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Alberto Abad obtained the Telecommunication Engineering degree on 2002 from [http://www.upc.edu Technical University of Catalonia] (UPC). Between 2002 and 2006 he has been a PhD student at the [http://www.talp.upc.edu TALP Research Centre] of the [http://www.tsc.upc.edu/ Department of Signal Theory and Communications] of the Technical University of Catalonia, where he was supported by a Catalan Government grant. His Thesis was related with multi-microphone approaches to speech processing in smart-room environments.
Alberto Abad obtained the Telecommunication Engineering degree and the PhD degree on 2002 and 2007 respectively, both from the [http://www.upc.edu Technical University of Catalonia] (UPC). Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the [https://dei.tecnico.ulisboa.pt Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI)] of [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)] and researcher at INESC-ID. He is the coordinator of the [http://www.hlt.inesc-id.pt Human LanguageTechnologies laboratory (HLT)] at INESC-ID and the deputy coordinator of the [https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meic-a Master in Computer Science and Engineering of IST]. He is also an IEEE Senior member, an ACM member, and an ISCA member.


At UPC he has participated in several European and National Spanish projects. He has also been lecturer of a laboratory course about signal processing applications in the Telecommunication Engineering School of Barcelona during the academic years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006, and collaborating lecturer in the doctorate course of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications "Speech and Language Technology and Applications".
Alberto Abad has developed his research career in the area of human language technologies for more than 15 years. His research interests include robust speech recognition, speaker and language characterization, applied machine learning, health-care applications, and privacy-preserving speech processing. During these years, Alberto Abad has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier conferences and scientific journals of the field. He has been Principal Investigator of FCT funded project VITHEA and INESC-ID representative in the DIRHA European project, Biovisualspeech CMU-Portugal project, and TAPAS ITN. He is currently INESC-ID/IST PI at [https://www.inesc-id.pt/accelerat-ai/ Accelerat.ai project]. He has also been team member in various Spanish and Portuguese national and international projects, and team leader in international technological evaluation challenges achieving excellent results. He has supervised and co-supervised more than 25 M.Sc. thesis and 1 Ph.D. thesis (+5 on-going) and lectured in courses at both UPC and IST on a variety of topics, including signal processing, machine learning, programming principles, object oriented programming and compilers. Alberto Abad has been actively involved in research community activities, including conference organization, and closely collaborated with local industry and start-up companies.


He is currently a researcher in the Spoken Language Systems Lab (L2F) of INESC-ID. His current research interests include among others automatic speech recognition for telephone based applications, multimodal audio-visual applications, and audio, acoustic and sound research.
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Alberto Abad obtained the Telecommunication Engineering degree on 2002 from [http://www.upc.edu Technical University of Catalonia] (UPC). Between 2002 and 2006 he was a PhD student at the [http://www.talp.upc.edu TALP Research Centre] of the [http://www.tsc.upc.edu/ Department of Signal Theory and Communications] of the Technical University of Catalonia, where he was supported by a Catalan Government grant. His Thesis was related with multi-microphone approaches to speech processing in smart-room environments. At UPC he participated in several European and National Spanish projects. He was also lecturer in the [http://www.etsetb.upc.edu/ Telecommunication Engineering School of Barcelona] and collaborating lecturer in the doctorate program of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications.


In February 2007, Alberto Abad joined the [http://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt Spoken Language Systems Lab (L2F)] of [http://www.inesc-id.pt/ INESC-ID] and in July 2008 he obtained a ''Programa Ciência'' contract for 5 years. During that period at INESC-ID, Alberto Abad contributed to consolidate group's research lines and to open new strategic ones. He has been Principal Investigator of the FCT funded project [http://www.vithea.org VITHEA] and INESC-ID representative in the  [http://dirha.fbk.eu DIRHA] European project, besides team member in several national and international projects, and team leader in many international technological evaluation challenges achieving excellent results. He  also collaborated in several courses of the [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)] of the University of Lisbon. In August 2013, Alberto Abad was hired as an Invited Researcher and Professor at the IST, where was lecturer of the [http://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores] (MEEC) during the academic years 2013- 2014 and 2014-2015. In February 2015, Alberto Abad won a position as Assistant Professor at the [https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/departamentos/dei Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI)] of the IST.
His current research interests include robust speech recognition, speaker  and language identification, computational acoustic scene analysis, multimedia, and health-care applications.
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== Research Interests ==
== Research Interests ==


* Multi-microphone processing
* Multi-microphone processing
* Automatic Speech Recognition
* Robust Speech Recognition
* Speaker and language characterization
* Speech and language technology for health-care applications
* Privacy-preserving speech processing


== Resume ==
== Resume ==
PDF Version [http://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/~alberto/cv07.pdf]
PDF Version [http://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/~alberto/CV2021.pdf]
 
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Latest revision as of 09:43, 16 February 2024

Alberto Abad obtained the Telecommunication Engineering degree and the PhD degree on 2002 and 2007 respectively, both from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and researcher at INESC-ID. He is the coordinator of the Human LanguageTechnologies laboratory (HLT) at INESC-ID and the deputy coordinator of the Master in Computer Science and Engineering of IST. He is also an IEEE Senior member, an ACM member, and an ISCA member.

Alberto Abad has developed his research career in the area of human language technologies for more than 15 years. His research interests include robust speech recognition, speaker and language characterization, applied machine learning, health-care applications, and privacy-preserving speech processing. During these years, Alberto Abad has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier conferences and scientific journals of the field. He has been Principal Investigator of FCT funded project VITHEA and INESC-ID representative in the DIRHA European project, Biovisualspeech CMU-Portugal project, and TAPAS ITN. He is currently INESC-ID/IST PI at Accelerat.ai project. He has also been team member in various Spanish and Portuguese national and international projects, and team leader in international technological evaluation challenges achieving excellent results. He has supervised and co-supervised more than 25 M.Sc. thesis and 1 Ph.D. thesis (+5 on-going) and lectured in courses at both UPC and IST on a variety of topics, including signal processing, machine learning, programming principles, object oriented programming and compilers. Alberto Abad has been actively involved in research community activities, including conference organization, and closely collaborated with local industry and start-up companies.

Research Interests

  • Multi-microphone processing
  • Robust Speech Recognition
  • Speaker and language characterization
  • Speech and language technology for health-care applications
  • Privacy-preserving speech processing

Resume

PDF Version [1]

Total Publications: 141

Article (Author)

In Proceedings (Author)

In Book (Author)

  • Privacy in Paralinguistic and Extralinguistic Tasks for Health Applications
    Francisco Teixeira, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso, Bhiksha Raj,
    Voice Biometrics: Technology, Trust and Security, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), October 2021
  • The L2F Broadcast News Transcription System
    Alberto Abad,
    Applications of Speech Technologies. Talks and contributions presented at the summer course: Applications of Speech Technologies (Eds.: Benitez-Ortúzar, M.C.; Perez-Cordoba, J.L.), Ed. Universidad de Granada, January 2013

Book (Editor)

Technical Report (Author)

Miscellaneous (Author)

 

Total Supervisions: 48

Doctoral Theses

  • Deep unsupervised learning for low-resource automatic speech recognition
    Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho
    Alberto Abad (advisor),
    Doctoral Thesis (before Bologna), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2021-10-01 - Ongoing
  • Prosody Assessment for Computer Assisted Therapy and Language Learning
    Mariana Julião
    Alberto Abad (advisor), Helena Moniz (coadvisor)
    Doctoral Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2018-09-01 - Ongoing
  • Speech as a biomarker for multidisease screening
    Catarina Botelho
    Isabel Trancoso (advisor), Alberto Abad (coadvisor)
    Doctoral Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2019-10-01 - 2024-11-18
  • Privacy-preserving machine learning for remote speech processing
    Francisco Teixeira
    Isabel Trancoso (advisor), Alberto Abad (coadvisor)
    Doctoral Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2019-05-01 - 2024-07-11
  • Contributions to speech processing for children with speech disorders
    Thomas Rolland
    Alberto Abad (advisor),
    Doctoral Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2018-09-01 - 2024-06-24
  • Speech and language technologies applied to diagnostics and therapy of brain diseases
    Anna Maria Pompili
    Alberto Abad (advisor), Isabel P. Martins (coadvisor)
    Doctoral Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014-03-01 - 2019-12-01

Master's Theses

Graduation Theses

Internships

 

Total Projects: 16

International Projects

National Projects

Contracts

  • ViaVerde - Consultodoria Via Verde Serviços AS
    INESC-ID Lisboa, Via Verde Serviços SA, , 2019-06-01 - 2019-12-31

Conferences

 

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