Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Speech Processing

Dr. Manas A. Pathak received the BTech degree in computer science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India, in 2006, and the MS and PhD degrees from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2009 and 2012 respectively. He is currently working as a research scientist at Adchemy, Inc. His research interests include intersection of data privacy, machine learning, speech processing.

• Thesis Overview.- Speech Processing Background.- Privacy Background.- Overview of Speaker Verification with Privacy.- Privacy-Preserving Speaker Verification Using Gaussian Mixture Models.- Privacy-Preserving Speaker Verification as String Comparison.- Overview of Speaker Indentification with Privacy.- Privacy-Preserving Speaker Identification Using Gausian Mixture Models.- Privacy-Preserving Speaker Identification as String Comparison.- Overview of Speech Recognition with Privacy.- Privacy-Preserving Isolated-Word Recognition.- Thesis Conclusion.- Future Work.- Differentially Private Gaussian Mixture Models.