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.

CV

  • 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
          Awarded the best laboratory course in the WiSe 23 according to the student votes!