SAIL at 25

A Quarter Century of Human-Centered Signal Processing

Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL) Reunion

Friday, January 16

Venue USC Ming Hsieh Institute Lounge (EEB 132)
3740 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Map

Detailed Schedule

Time Session
9:00Breakfast
9:30 - 10:00Introduction (Shri)
10:00 - 11:00Icebreaker
11:00 - 11:15Coffee break
11:15 - 12:20
Pivotal work from SAILers
  • IEMOCAP: Carlos
  • Speech Production: Sungbok
    A Review of Emotional Speech Production Research at SAIL.
  • Child Speech: Alex
  • Speech and Language Technologies for Children at SAIL
  • Education and Outreach: Sam
  • MaaS: Mentorship as a Service (in almost non-profit sense)
12:20 - 13:30Lunch
13:30[PANEL] How LLMs/generative AI have changed the fields of speech and language
14:30 - 14:45
Remote presentations
  • SPAN: Mike Proctor
14:45 - 15:00
Lightning Talk Presentation
  • Speaker: Nicholas Mehlman
  • Topic: Ghost Speakers: A Novel Attack Against Speaker Verification
15:00 - 15:25Break
15:30[PANEL] Why I love what I do, why I’m glad I did what I did
16:30 - 17:00Closing thoughts
17:00 - 18:00Campus Tour

Saturday, January 17

Venue USC Ming Hsieh Institute Lounge (EEB 132)
3740 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Map

Detailed Schedule

Time Session
8:30Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Remote presentation
  • Media: Naveen, Tanaya
9:30 - 11:00 Current SAILers Poster Session
(Click here for full detailed program)
11:00 - 11:20Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20
Selected research areas
  • Diarization: Taejin
  • Health: Theodora
  • Emotion Recognition: Serdar Yildrim
  • Auditory attention: Ozlem (TBD)
12:20 - 12:40Reflections (Shri)
Poster Session
Location: EEB Lobby & Courtyard
# Title Presenter Authors
1 Large Language Models Do Multi-Label Classification Differently Marcus Ma Marcus Ma, Georgios Chochlakis, Niyantha Pandiyan, Jesse Thomason, Shrikanth Narayanan
2 Tracing Moral Foundations in Large Language Models Bowen Yi Bowen Yi*, Chenxiao Yu*, Shrikanth Narayanan, Morteza Dehghani, et al.
3 Few-Shot Personalization of Self-Supervised Wearable Biosignal Models Emily Zhou Emily Zhou, Aditya Kommineni, Marcus Ma, Kaitlin Zareno, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
4 Evaluating User and Attribute Privacy in Speech via Membership Inference Attacks Efthymios Tsaprazlis Efthymios Tsaprazlis, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Tiantian Feng, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Shrikanth Narayanan
5 Neural Codecs as Biosignal Tokenizers Kleanthis Avramidis Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Woojae Jeong, Jihwan Lee, Wenhui Cui, Richard Leahy, Shrikanth Narayanan
6 Identifying Factors that Limit Discriminative EEG Task Performance Aditya Kommineni Aditya Kommineni, Emily Zhou, Shrikanth Narayanan
7 Learning Context-Aware Physiological Baselines from Wearable Data Kait Zareno Kait Zareno, Emily Zhou, Aditya Kommineni, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
8 Neural Audio Codecs as Zero-Shot Defenses Against Adversarial ASR Attacks Jordan Prescott Jordan Prescott, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Shrikanth Narayanan
9 A Long-Form Single-Speaker Real-Time MRI Speech Dataset and Benchmark Sean Foley Sean Foley, Jihwan Lee, Kevin Huang, Xuan Shi, Yoonjeong Lee, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan
10 Large Language Models Based ASR Error Correction for Child Conversations Anfeng Xu Anfeng Xu, Tiantian Feng, So Hyun Kim, Somer Bishop, Catherine Lord, Shrikanth Narayanan
11 Human-Centered Speech Computing Across Life Span Tiantian Feng Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
12 Subjective Label Verifiers Georgios Chochlakis Georgios Chochlakis, P. Wu, A. Bedi, M. Ma, K. Lerman, Shrikanth Narayanan
13 Quantifying Speaker Embedding Phonological Rule Interactions in Accented Speech Synthesis Thanathai Lertpetchpun Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Yoonjeong Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan, et al.
14 Proof-of-Concept: Simultaneous Acquisition of Real-Time MRI Video, EEG, and Surface EMG During Speech Production Jihwan Lee Jihwan Lee, Parsa Razmara, Kevin Huang, Sean Foley, Shrikanth Narayanan, et al.
15 Speech Acoustics to rt-MRI Articulatory Dynamics Inversion with Video Diffusion Model Xuan Shi Xuan Shi, Tiantian Feng, Jay Park, Christina Hagedorn, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan
16 Applications and Challenges in Modeling Articulatory Dynamics Kevin Huang Kevin Huang, Sean Foley, Jihwan Lee, Yoonjeong Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
17 Detection of Intracranial Hypertension Using Optic Disc Photographs Under Severe Data Imbalance Sajjad Shahabi Sajjad Shahabi
18 Multimodal Learning for Understanding and Classifying Stress Andreas Peter Juhl Hansen, Jeppe Roden Münster Andreas Peter Juhl Hansen, Jeppe Roden Münster
19 Synergy Identification via Network Clustering Simon Bock Segaard Simon Bock Segaard
20 Smiling Back: Modeling and Evaluating Facial Reciprocity in Conversational Agents Daniel Yang Daniel Yang, Hirofumi Inaguma, Jason Zheng, Tu Anh Nguyen, Xutai Ma
21 Interpreting Accented Speech in Foundation Models via Sparse Autoencoders Shih-Heng (Stan) Wang Shih-Heng (Stan) Wang, Shrikanth Narayanan
22 Novel Death Association-Reaction Score Measure from Sentence Task to Predict Depression and Suicidal Ideation Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, PRECOG Team, Shrikanth Narayanan
23 Interpretable Modeling of Articulatory Temporal Dynamics from Real-Time MRI for Phoneme Recognition Jay Park Jay Park, Hong Nguyen, Sean Foley, Jihwan Lee, Yoonjeong Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
24 VELUTI: AI-Powered Precision Therapist Matching Huang-Cheng Chou Huang-Cheng Chou, Shrikanth Narayanan
25 Understand and Predict Human Social Signals in Videos Hong Nguyen Hong Nguyen, Shrikanth Narayanan

Poster Session

Date: January 17 (Saturday), 2026  |  Time: 09:40 - 11:00 am
Session Chair: Huang-Cheng Chou

Reunion Dinner

(For SAILers and family)
DateSaturday, January 17, 2026
Time6:00 - 9:00 PM
EventSAIL 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
Venue
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Parking Information

Please register for parking using the link below. Note: You must register for each day individually.

Location: Downey - Parking structure