Ünal Ege Gaznepoğlu, M.Sc.
I joined Prof. Peters' group as a Research Associate / Ph.D. student in November 2022. I have been working on privacy preserving machine learning applications for audio signal processing, mainly to be run on edge devices. Since November 2024 Prof. Emanuël A. P. Habets is my co-advisor.
Personal website.
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- 09/2025 - ongoing: Intern at Text-to-Speech Team, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
- 11/2022 - ongoing: Research Associate / Ph.D. Student at International Audio Labs Erlangen, Germany
- 05/2022 - 10/2022: Graduate Research Assistant at International Audio Labs Erlangen, Germany
- 10/2019 - 05/2022: M.Sc. in Advanced Signal Processing and Comm. Eng. at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
- 09/2015 - 06/2019: B.Sc. Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
M.Sc. Thesis: Deep Learning-based Manifold Learning for Spatial Filtering
B.Sc. Graduation Project: Simultaneous Multiple Speech and Voice Recognition with Text Conversion
Teaching
Students supervised
| Student name |
Role |
Task |
Period (start - end) |
| Sergei Ukhov |
MSc Thesis |
Understanding how speaker recognition systems break anonymisation |
10/2025 - ongoing |
| Mete Aslan |
Research Internship (BSc) |
Probing ASV Models for Speech Synthesis Conditioning |
07/2024 - 10/2024 |
| Saikeerthi Chirumamilla Hagadur |
MSc Thesis |
DSP-assisted deep F0 Extractor Implementation and Evaluation |
01/2024 - 08/2024 |
| Aditya Mehra |
MSc Thesis |
Learning Disentangled Speech Representation For Voice Conversion |
12/2023 - 06/2024 |
| Krishnendu Ettiyil |
Research Internship (MSc) |
Development of a causal bottleneck features extractor |
04/2023 - 09/2024 |
| Saikeerthi Chirumamilla Hagadur |
HiWi (Student Assistant) |
Evaluation of voice anonymization systems |
07/2023 - 04/2024 |
Coursework
- Assistant for the seminar Audio Processing Seminar Winter 2025/26
- Assistant for the lab Audio Processing Laboratory Winter 2025/26
- Assistant for the seminar Audio Processing Seminar Summer 2025
- Assistant for the lab Audio Processing Laboratory Summer 2025
- Assistant for the seminar Audio Processing Seminar Winter 2024/25
- Assistant for the lab Audio Processing Laboratory Winter 2024/25
- Assistant for the seminar Audio Processing Seminar Summer 2024
- Assistant for the lab Audio Processing Laboratory Summer 2024
- Assistant for the seminar Audio Processing Seminar Winter 2023/24
- Coordinator for the lab Audio Processing Laboratory Winter 2023/24
- Assistant for the seminar Audio Processing Seminar Summer 2023
- Assistant for the lab Audio Processing Laboratory Summer 2023
- Assistant for the seminar Audio Processing Seminar Winter 2022/23
- Assistant for the lab Audio Processing Laboratory Winter 2022/23
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