Cem Subakan

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Laval University / Associate Academic Member at Mila. Machine Learning Researcher, Speech and Audio, Explainable ML

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

Totally deserved!

[francesco paissan @fpaissan_]

I’m grateful to have been awarded a Doctoral Research Scholarship from the FRQ @ to support my PhD studies at @universitelaval and @Mila_Quebec.

Many thanks to my advisors, @CemSubakan and @mirco_ravanelli and to all my collaborators!

[francesco paissan @fpaissan_]

I’m grateful to have been awarded a Doctoral Research Scholarship from the FRQ @ to support my PhD studies at @universitelaval and @Mila_Quebec.

Many thanks to my advisors, @CemSubakan and @mirco_ravanelli and to all my collaborators!

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

Conversational AI reading group is back!

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

🎉 ConvAI Reading Group is back for 2026!

This week we welcome Daniel P. W. Ellis (Google DeepMind) presenting his ICML paper:

🎧 Recomposer: Event-roll-guided Audio Editing

📅 Thu, Jan 29 | 11 AM EST
🔗 https://t.co/YTSOEfmuak
▶️ https://t.co/60UDd9IyPq

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

🎉 ConvAI Reading Group is back for 2026!

This week we welcome Daniel P. W. Ellis (Google DeepMind) presenting his ICML paper:

🎧 Recomposer: Event-roll-guided Audio Editing

📅 Thu, Jan 29 | 11 AM EST
🔗 https://t.co/YTSOEfmuak
▶️ https://t.co/60UDd9IyPq

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

If you are interspeech stop by our poster!

[Pooneh Mousavi @MousaviPooneh]

📢 Presenting our paper “LiSTEN: Learning Soft Token Embeddings for Neural Audio LLMs” — an interpretable fine-tuning method for spoken language understanding.

🗓 Wed, Aug 20 | 08:30–10:30
📍 A11-P2B-03
Hope to see you there!
📄 https://t.co/GEhsFFqeLy
@ISCAInterspeech

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

@MousaviPooneh @ISCAInterspeech If you are at Interspeech, stop by our poster!

[MT Group at FBK @fbk_mt]

Our pick of the week by @beomseok_lee_: "ALAS: Measuring Latent Speech-Text Alignment For Spoken Language Understanding In Multimodal LLMs" by Pooneh Mousavi, @yingzhi_wang, @mirco_ravanelli, and @CemSubakan (2025)

https://t.co/8UsRFvV83N

#SLU #speech #multimodal #LLM

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

Last chance to submit a paper to MLSP 2025!

[Mirco Ravanelli @mirco_ravanelli]

IEEE MLSP 2025: Deadline extended!
The submission deadline is now May 6.
- New papers welcome
- Revisions accepted

https://t.co/S0Xvsm8gfA

Don't miss this chance to contribute!

#MLSP2025 #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #SignalProcessing #IEEE #CallForPapers #Research

[Mirco Ravanelli @mirco_ravanelli]

IEEE MLSP 2025: Deadline extended!
The submission deadline is now May 6.
- New papers welcome
- Revisions accepted

https://t.co/S0Xvsm8gfA

Don't miss this chance to contribute!

#MLSP2025 #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #SignalProcessing #IEEE #CallForPapers #Research

[Mirco Ravanelli @mirco_ravanelli]

#IEEE MLSP 2025 – Call for Papers

The OpenReview portal is now open!

📅 Deadline: April 22, 2025
🔗 Website: https://t.co/aQm0lJGfvW

We welcome #papers on #deeplearning, #speech/#audio, #LLMs, #CV, #NLP, #EEG, #optimization, #fintech, #healthcare, #wireless comms, & more!

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

This work is a great step towards explainable document retrieval!

[Perouz Taslakian @PerouzT]

🚀 We have released our paper on ReTreever! 🌳🔍

ReTreever organizes and represents documents in a binary tree across various granular levels, balancing cost & utility while enhancing retrieval transparency.

📜 Read it here: https://t.co/4VlePz5e1K

#AI @ServiceNowRSRCH
🧵👇

[Perouz Taslakian @PerouzT]

🚀 We have released our paper on ReTreever! 🌳🔍

ReTreever organizes and represents documents in a binary tree across various granular levels, balancing cost & utility while enhancing retrieval transparency.

📜 Read it here: https://t.co/4VlePz5e1K

#AI @ServiceNowRSRCH
🧵👇

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

The Special Session proposal deadline is February 1, please consider organizing one!
https://t.co/TtwYMiRdSo

The data competitions proposal deadline is February 15:
https://t.co/BkwehMVrKk

[Mirco Ravanelli @mirco_ravanelli]

We are working hard to organize the 35th #IEEE #MachineLearning for #SignalProcessing Workshop (MLSP) in #Istanbul (Aug 31–Sept 3, 2025)!

It will be an unforgettable event with inspiring #research, talks, and keynotes.

Paper submissions: Apr 22, 2025

https://t.co/S0Xvsm8gfA

[Convai_rg @convAI2024]

📢Join our last meeting of 2024 Conversational AI Reading Group on Thursday 19/12/2024, 11 AM-12 PM EST!
@mirco_ravanelli presents "Discrete Audio Tokens for Multimodal LLMs"

Details: https://t.co/5EOuxyeNg0

You could also follow us on BlueSky : https://t.co/XRpwz4LZta

[Mirco Ravanelli @mirco_ravanelli]

I will attend #NeurIPS2024 in Vancouver this week. If you'd like to connect, feel free to reach out privately!

We’ll present our paper, "Listenable Maps for Zero-Shot Audio Classifiers" (Main Track, Fri 13 Dec 11 a.m. PST - 2 p.m.)

https://t.co/byRy5vyf64"

#AI #DeepLearning

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

Come check out our poster!

[francesco paissan @fpaissan_]

Pass by East Exhibit Hall A-C, poster #3202 from 11 to 14 to learn more about our research!

#NeurIPS2024

[francesco paissan @fpaissan_]

Pass by East Exhibit Hall A-C, poster #3202 from 11 to 14 to learn more about our research!

#NeurIPS2024

[Cem Subakan @CemSubakan]

Consider sending a paper!

[Aravind Krishnan @Ara_Krishnan]

🌟 Excited to announce our Special Session at #Interspeech2025: Interpretability in Audio and Speech Technology!

🔗 Details here: https://t.co/4HFUWUpsmi

📅 Submission Deadline: Aligns with the main Interspeech deadline!

[Aravind Krishnan @Ara_Krishnan]

🌟 Excited to announce our Special Session at #Interspeech2025: Interpretability in Audio and Speech Technology!

🔗 Details here: https://t.co/4HFUWUpsmi

📅 Submission Deadline: Aligns with the main Interspeech deadline!

[Aravind Krishnan @Ara_Krishnan]

Thanks to the entire team @fpaissan_ @badr_nlp @mirco_ravanelli @CemSubakan @dklakow
Ping me if you have questions!