David Harwath
UT Austin assistant professor who leads the SALT Lab; former MIT CSAIL research scientist
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science; leads the SALT Lab, The University of Texas at Austin12
David Harwath is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, where Harwath leads the Speech, Audio, and Language Technologies (SALT) Lab. Harwath's research covers machine learning for speech, language, and sound, with a focus on multimodality and self-supervised approaches that can help low-resource languages and domains. Before UT, Harwath was a research scientist at MIT CSAIL from 2018 to 2020, and Harwath's homepage offers the spoken caption corpora Harwath collected, along with modeling code, for download. With Wei-Ning Hsu and James Glass, Harwath wrote Learning Hierarchical Discrete Linguistic Units from Visually-Grounded Speech (ICLR 2020).123
Work
Learning Hierarchical Discrete Linguistic Units from Visually-Grounded Speech (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author, with Wei-Ning Hsu and James Glass, of this ICLR 2020 paper, which UT Austin's faculty page lists among Harwath's selected publications.32
Spoken caption corpora (external site: cs.utexas.edu)Open data
Harwath's homepage links to a site for downloading all of the spoken caption corpora Harwath collected, along with modeling code.1
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