About Me

Hello! This is Orchid Chetia Phukan. I am currently a Ph.D. Scholar at IIIT-Delhi, India. My research interests include Behavioral Signal Processing, Paralinguistic Speech Processing, and Speech Forensics.

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Selected Publications

Conference

-> Transforming the Embeddings: A Lightweight Technique for Speech Emotion Recognition Tasks, INTERSPEECH 2023, Authors: Orchid Chetia Phukan, Arun Balaji Buduru, Rajesh Sharma

-> Heterogeneity over Homogeneity: Investigating Multilingual Speech Pre-Trained Models for Detecting Audio Deepfake, NAACL (Findings) 2024, Authors: Orchid Chetia Phukan, Gautam Kashyap, Arun Balaji Buduru, Rajesh Sharma (O and G are Joint First Authors) (Preprint coming soon!!)

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Talks, Honors and Achievements

-> Presented a session at FDP- Anil Neerukonda Institute of technology and sciences, Visakhapatnam, India on the topic of Foundations and Applications of AI in Healthcare with a specific focus on stress recognition through wearable sensors with the application of TinyML (Jan’23).

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Experience

-> Research Intern at AI Institute at University of South Carolina (Dec’21 - June’22)

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Teaching

-> Teaching Assistant (TA) at Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia for Business Data Analytics Course (Spring 2023, Spring 2022)

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Professional Services

-> Reviewer for ASONAM 2023

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Volunteering

-> Volunteered at The Knowledge Graph Conference (KGC) 2021

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Supervision and Mentorship

Supervision

-> Reena Vaziri (Supervised for Master’s Thesis, University of Tartu, Estonia, Dec’22 - Jun’23)

Mentorship

-> Ankit Sharma (IIT Ropar, India, March’23 - May’23)
-> Shubham Singh (Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India, May’23- )
-> Ankita Das (IIIT Guwahati, India, June’23 - )
-> Devyani Koshal (IIIT Delhi, India, August’23 - )
-> Panchal Nayak (VIT Vellore, India, September’23 - )