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# Pablo Brusco
* Currently working in the Speech Systems group of ASAPP.
* PHD Student (last year)
* Computer Science Department, Exact and Natural Sciences School, University of Buenos Aires
## Contact Information
Departamento de Computación, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Pabellón I, Ciudad Universitaria. (C1428EGA) Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Email: first letter of my name followed by my last name, at dc.uba.ar (pbr…@dc.uba.ar)
## Education
* Currently pursuing the last year of my PhD in Computer Science at the
<br/> University of Buenos Aires.
* Computer Science Major
<br/> Licenciatura in Computer Science at the University of Buenos Aires (June 2014).
<br/> Roughly equivalent to a B.S. + M.S. in C.S.
<br/> Degree Thesis: *Keyword spotting in languages without previous training data.*
<br/> Advisors: [Luciana Ferrer](http://habla.dc.uba.ar/lferrer) and [Agustín Gravano](http://habla.dc.uba.ar/gravano).
## Interests
* **Machine learning**
* Spoken Language processing and Dialog systems
* Dimensionality reduction techniques
* Machine learning on Speech
* Machine learning on Electroencephalography
* Topic modeling
* Programming Languages Paradigms (theory and practice)
* Teaching
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## Research
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### Refereed Publications
* **Pablo Brusco**, Juan Manuel Pérez, Agustín Gravano. ``Cross-linguistic study of the production of turn-taking cues in American English and Argentine Spanish". Interspeech 2017, presented in Stockholm, Sweden in August 2017
* Agustín Gravano, **Pablo Brusco**, Stefan Benus, ``Who do you think will speak next?
Perception of turn-taking cues in Slovak and Argentine Spanish'',
Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, CA. September 2016
* Edgar Altszyler, **Pablo Brusco**, ``Análisis de la dinámica del contenido semántico", Jornadas Argentinas de Informática (JAIIO), 16th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI 2015), Rosario, Argentina. September 2015.
* **Pablo Brusco**, Luciana Ferrer, Agustín Gravano, ``Detección de palabras claves en lenguajes sin datos de entrenamiento'', Argentine Congress on Computer Sciences (CACIC 2014). Universidad Nacional de la Matanza, Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 2014.
### Research Group
* Member of the [Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab](http://liaa.dc.uba.ar/) *June 2014 - Present*
* Collaborator in **``Neurophysiological correlates of interaction between humans''**.
We are currenly investigating the neurophysiological correlates of coordination between humans during dialogue.
Advisors: Agustín Gravano and Juan Kamienkowski.
* Collaborator in **``Cross-linguistic study of prosodic cues in English, Spanish and Slovak''**. Advisors: Agustín Gravano and Stefan Benus.
### Talks
- [Cross-linguistic study of prosodic cues in English, Spanish and Slovak](interspeech_2017.pdf) (Interspeech 2017)
- [Machine Learning ¿El fin de la programación?](charla_ml_pbrusco.pdf) (UNGS, Spanish)
- [Variable Importance under correlation in Random Forest](charla_variable_importance.pdf) (LIAA)
### SRI International Internship
- STAR Lab - United States *Dec 2018 -- Apr 2019*
- STAR Lab - United States *Sept 2016 -- Dec 2016*
Internship at the Speech Technology & Research Laboratory (STAR lab) of SRI International as a Student
Associate. We developed state of the art tools applied to Acoustics Events recognition using Machine Learning techniques.
## Academic Experience
#### At the [Department of Computer Science](http://dc.uba.ar/), School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires.
##### 5 semesters as **Head of TAs**
- *2018-1*, *2017-2*L: Algorithms and Data Structures I
- *2017-1*: Algebra I.
- *2016-1, 2014-2*: Programming Languages Paradigms.
##### 6 semesters as **First-Class Teaching Assistant**
- *2015-2, 2015-summer, 2014-2, 2013-2*: Algebra I.
- *2015-1, 2014-1*: Programming Languages Paradigms.
##### 7 semesters as **Teaching Assistant**
- *2013-2, 2013-1, 2012-2, 2012-1*: Programming Languages Paradigms.
- *2011-2*: Numerical Methods
- *2011-2, 2011-1*: Algorithms and Data Structures I
### Student Supervision
#### Degree Thesis Advisor
* Alejandro Daniel Masseroli (399/09). ``Extracción de información de películas a través de subtítulos utilizando atributos sintácticos y semánticos en español''. Dec 2016.
* Gabriel Defagot (275/11). ``Extracción de tópicos acústicos utilizando Latent Dirichlet Allocation''. In progress.
* Martín Caravario. ``Clasificación de señales de EEG utilizando técnicas de machine learning''. In progress. **Advisor** (co-advisor: Laura Kaczer)
* Gabriel Defagot (275/11). ``Generación de vocabularios y extracción de tópicos para la detección de escenas acústicas mediante T-SNE y LDA''. Mar 2018, **Advisor** (co-advisor: Pablo Riera)
* Alejandro Daniel Masseroli (399/09). ``Extracción de información de películas a través de subtítulos utilizando atributos sintácticos y semánticos en español'', **Advisor** (co-advisor: Edgar Altszyler)
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