PhD in Speech & Audio: AI-Generated Content Detection

Aalto University; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Aalto University in Espoo, Finland invites applications for a Doctoral Researcher in Speech and Language Technology. You will work on detecting AI-generated audio content, contributing to robust detection, watermarking, and origin tracing.

The role involves dataset creation, detector development, and publishing in top venues. You will be supervised by Assistant Professor Lauri Juvela and collaborate with international researchers.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field (or near completion).
• Strong interest in doctoral research on audio deepfake detection and watermarking.
• Good programming skills, preferably Python and ML tools.
• Basic knowledge of deep learning, signal processing, or statistical ML.
• Ability to publish scientific articles and work in an international setting.
• Fluency in English; Finnish not required.

Responsibilities

• Develop datasets of diverse real and generated speech and audio.
• Adapt and improve detector baselines for multi-objective detection.
• Study robustness against signal-processing and adversarial attacks.
• Develop explainable, localized detection methods for watermarking and deepfakes.
• Publish research in leading journals and contribute to open-source releases.
• Conduct experiments and ML research on HPC infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Machine learning

Deep learning

Speech processing

English fluency

Research mindset

Education

Master's degree in a relevant field

Tools

PyTorch / TensorFlow

Job description

Aalto University in Espoo, Finland invites applications for a Doctoral Researcher in Speech and Language Technology. You will work on detecting AI-generated audio content, contributing to robust detection, watermarking, and origin tracing.

The role involves dataset creation, detector development, and publishing in top venues. You will be supervised by Assistant Professor Lauri Juvela and collaborate with international researchers.