On January 15th, our PhD student, Umberto Cappellazzo, successfully defended his thesis at the IECS Doctoral School of the University of Trento. During his PhD studies, Umberto investigated a variety of transfer learning techniques for pre-trained models applied to speech technologies, particularly ASR, SLU, and AVSR, leading to eight publications in international venues. Examples include continual learning, PEFT, and integrations with LLMs
