Tomi Kinnunen

Tomi Kinnunen is a Professor at the University of Eastern Finland's School of Computing, within the Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Joensuu (2005) and has extensive experience in speaker recognition, voice biometrics security, and anti-spoofing technologies. His research focuses on advancing voice authentication systems against attacks such as deepfakes and replay spoofing, with contributions to initiatives like the ASVspoof challenge.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Joensuu, 2005

Research Interests: Speaker recognition, spoofing countermeasures, voice transformation, and bioacoustic signal applications. He leads the Computational Speech Group and co-founded the ASVspoof challenge, a key benchmark for evaluating voice biometric security.

Grants & Projects: Has led multiple Academy of Finland-funded projects on speaker recognition and anti-spoofing, including the H2020-funded OCTAVE project. Current projects include SPEECHFAKES and ASVspoof 5, focusing on generalized anti-spoofing and deepfake detection.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Computational Speech Group, a research team advancing speech processing and security technologies. Collaborates internationally on databases like the FROST-EMA and STOPA.