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Kris Demuynck is an Associate Professor at Ghent University's Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Electronics and Information Systems (EA06), and leads the Internet Technology and Data Science Lab. With expertise in audio/speech processing, pattern recognition, and biomedical NLP, he supervises 14 doctoral researchers and contributes to speech recognition for healthcare and low-resource languages.
- Current projects: Core speech technology, NeLF (Flemish speech recognition), BioLORD-2023 (biomedical semantic models)
- Past grants: Special Research Fund, FWO, bilateral agreements
Research Interests:
- Speech recognition architectures combining linguistic features with neural networks
- Biomedical semantic representation learning using LLMs and knowledge graphs
- Robust speaker verification and diarization in multi-speaker environments
Selected Publications (2024-2025) demonstrate advancements in audio hashing, clinical NLP, and stress biomarker detection. His 15 most recent works span speech enhancement, speaker separation, and multilingual model adaptation.
Supervision: Mentored doctoral projects on time series analytics, speech intelligibility, and pathological voice analysis. Active collaborations include FWO-funded precision health initiatives and industrial research fund projects on child linguistic analysis.
