Jesús Villalba

Jesús Villalba is an Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, specializing in speech processing and speaker recognition. He is affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP).

• Education: M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering (University of Zaragoza, 2004), Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (University of Zaragoza, 2014)

His research focuses on extracting paralinguistic information (e.g., speaker identity, emotion, age), robust speech recognition, and unsupervised learning. He also investigates adversarial attacks on speech systems and multimodal diagnostics for neurodegenerative diseases.

Recent publications highlight advancements in speaker diarization, speech separation, and neurodegenerative disease detection using speech and eye movement data. His work leverages deep generative models and self-supervised learning for robust speech processing.

He collaborates with institutions like Brno University of Technology and companies such as Agnitio and Cirrus Logic International. His career spans academia and industry roles, including postdoctoral work at CLSP.