Mirco Ravanelli

Mirco Ravanelli is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University (Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science), specializing in deep learning for sequence processing with a focus on Conversational AI. He holds adjunct roles at Université de Montréal (DIRO) and is an Associate Member at Mila - Quebec AI Institute. He leads the SpeechBrain open-source project, a widely adopted toolkit for conversational AI.

His academic journey includes a PhD (cum laude) from the University of Trento (2017) and a postdoc under Yoshua Bengio at Mila. He has published over 80 papers, focusing on self-supervised learning, cooperative deep learning, and speech/EEG signal processing. Key awards include the 2022 Amazon Research Award.

Teaching involves machine learning courses for graduate and undergraduate students at Concordia. His research aims to bridge human-machine conversation through advanced neural models, emphasizing explainability and robustness in speech technologies.

• Key Projects: SpeechBrain, FocalCodec, Speech self-supervised benchmarking
• Labs: CRBLM Axis Leader (Center for Research on Brain, Language, and Music)
• Grants: Amazon Research Award, Others unlisted