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Michael Gian Gonzales

Biography & Research Interests

Michael Gian Gonzales is a 1st year PhD student at the University of Galway, funded by SFI CRT d-real. He is originally from the Philippines where he got his BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His undergraduate research project is about voice conversion using deep neural networks. Afterwards, he worked for a private company as a software developer specifically for text-to-speech applications. Currently, he is focusing on state-of-the-art implementations of speech analysis and synthesis, neural networks, edge computing and neural accelerator technologies.

Research Activities

* Working on State-of-the-Art speech recognition and synthesis models
* Exploring methods of knowledge distillation specifically on speech models
* Implementing speech models on neural accelerator devices

Conference Participation and Presentations

M. G. V. Gonzales, C. R. G. Lucas, M. G. A. R. Bayona and F. A. De Leon, "Voice Conversion of Philippine Spoken Languages using Deep Neural Networks," 2020 IEEE 8th Conference on Systems, Process and Control (ICSPC), Melaka, Malaysia, 2020, pp. 118-121, doi: 10.1109/ICSPC50992.2020.9305801.