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# (Maria) Lara Gauder
* PHD Student
* Computer Science Department, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (FCEN), University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
## Contact Information
Oficina 15, Pabellón I, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
**Email**: first letter of my name followed by my last name at dc.uba.ar (mgau…@dc.uba.ar)
## Education
<ul>
<li>**PhD** in Computer Science
<ul>
<li>Thesis title: **Automatic detection of meta-information in speech signals.**</li>
<li>Advisor: [Luciana Ferrer](http://habla.dc.uba.ar/lferrer)</li>
<li>University of Buenos Aires from February 2019 to currently</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Licenciatura in Computer Science - Equivalent to **Bachelor and Master of Science**
<ul>
<li>Thesis title: **Study of the effect of entrainment during the interaction with a speech dialog system.**</li>
<li>Advisor: [Agustín Gravano](http://habla.dc.uba.ar/gravano), [Ramiro H. Gálvez](https://scholar.google.com.ar/citations?user=O10S3toAAAAJ&hl;=en&oi;=ao)</li>
<li>University of Buenos Aires from Abril 2010 to December 2017</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<li>at Hölters Schule (Buenos Aires, Argentina) to December 2008</li>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<li> **Machine learning**
<li> Spoken Language processing and Dialog systems
<li> Machine learning on Electroencephalography
<li> Dimensionality reduction techniques
<li> Topic modeling
<li> Programming Languages Paradigms (theory and practice)
<li> Teaching
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## Research
### Refereed Publications
<ul>
<li>**Alzheimer Disease Recognition Using Speech-Based Embeddings From Pre-Trained Models**
<ul>
<li>Lara Gauder, Leonardo Pepino, Luciana Ferrer and Pablo Riera</li>
<li>Interspeech 2021, Czechia (September 2021)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>**A unifying framework for modeling acoustic/prosodic entrainment: definition and evaluation on two large corpora**
<ul>
<li>Ramiro H. Gálvez, Lara Gauder, Jordi Luque, Agustín Gravano</li>
<li>SIGdial (July 2020)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>**A protocol for collecting speech data with varying degrees of trust**
<ul>
<li>Lara Gauder, Agustín Gravano, Luciana Ferrer, Pablo Riera and Silvina Brussino</li>
<li>Speech, Music and Mind: Detecting and Influencing Mental States with Audio, Austria (September 2019)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>**No Sample Left Behind: Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation of Speech Emotion Recognition Systems**
<ul>
<li>Pablo Riera, Luciana Ferrer, Agustín Gravano and Lara Gauder</li>
<li>Speech, Music and Mind: Detecting and Influencing Mental States with Audio, Austria (September 2019)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>**Testing the Effects of Acoustic/Prosodic Entrainment on User Behavior at the Dialog-Act Level**
<ul>
<li>Lara Gauder, Marisol Reartes, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Stefan Benus and Agustín Gravano</li>
<li>Speech Prosody 9, Poland (January 2018)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
### Research Group
* Member of the [Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab](http://liaa.dc.uba.ar/) from January 2017 to present
* Collaborator in **“Detecting Distrust Towards a Virtual Assistant from the User's Speech”**.
PI: [Luciana Ferrer](http://habla.dc.uba.ar/lferrer)
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### Talks / Posters
<ul>
<li>Talk: A Study on the Manifestation of Trust in Speech</li>
<ul>
<li>Leonardo Pepino, Lara Gauder</li>
<li>ISCA SIG-SPSC, Segurity and Privacy in Speech Communication, Webinar and café sessions (February 2021)</li>
</ul>
<li>Talk: Automatic Detection of Degree of Trust from Speech
<ul>
<li>Leonardo Pepino, Lara Gauder</li>
<li>Simposio Argentino de Inteligencia Artificial, 49º Jornadas Argentinas de Informática (October 2020)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Poster: [Emotion Classification from Speech using Prosodic and Spectral Attributes](mlss_2018.pdf)
<ul>
<li>Lara Gauder, Pablo Riera, Agustín Gravano, Luciana Ferrer</li>
<li>Machine Learning Summer School, Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 2018)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
### Intership
<ul>
<li>PHD internship
<ul>
<li>Talentoteca, Fundación Universidad-Empresa</li>
<li>Advisor: Luque Jordi</li>
<li>Telefónica, Barcelona, Spain from September 2018 to December 2019.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
## Academic Experience
<ul>
<li>First-Class Teaching Assistant
<ul>
<li>Subject: Operating System</li>
<li>[Department of Computer Science](http://dc.uba.ar/), Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires from August 2018 to March 2019.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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