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Ville Hautamäki received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Joensuu (currently known as the University of Eastern Finland), Finland in 2005. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the same university in 2008. He worked from 2009 to 2011 as a research fellow at the I2R, A*STAR, Singapore. Then in 2011 to 2014 he worked as a PI in an Academy of Finland funded project at the University of Eastern Finland, funded by Academy of Finland. In 2013 he worked for six months as a visiting scholar in Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. In 2014, he won a Nokia Visiting Professor grant to visit the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2015, he was a PI of a Finnish ministry defense funded automatic foreign accent recognition project. In 2016, his team won 3rd place in an international AI reinforcement challenge VizDoom. His first PhD student graduated in November 2016. He has also served in the COST Action IC1206. Currently he is on leave from a senior researcher position at the University of Eastern Finland. He has served as an associate editor in Digital Speech Processing and is currently serving as an associate editor IEEE Signal Processing Letters and has been a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (SLTC). Recently he PI’d of an Academy of Finland funded deep learning project and Finnish ministry of defense funded DeepFake detection project, and co-PI’d of a CZI funded deep learning project. He supervises and co-supervises five PhD students.
Research Interest
- Speaker and language recognition, Bayesian deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics