About Me
I’m a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, working in the Center for Language and Speech Processing, advised by Prof. Sanjeev Khudanpur. I was also a JHU–Amazon AI2AI Fellow during 2024–2025.
My research focuses on building real-time speech translation models that can handle conversational and long-form speech, as well as multimodal representation learning. I have also worked on problems involving multilingual, code-switched, and low-resource ASR, along with neural audio codecs.
I completed my Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the American University of Beirut, where I was advised by Prof. Hazem Hajj and was a member of the AUB MIND Lab. My research there focused on time series and sensing analytics, domain adaptation, and multitask learning. After my master’s, I worked as a Machine Learning Researcher at Kanari.ai in collaboration with Qatar Computing Reasearch Institute under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Ali.
Updates
- August 2025: Best Paper Award at IWSLT 2025
- May 2025: Interning at NVIDIA Riva
- Dec 2024: Participating in the SDAIA Winter School
- Oct 2024: I have been awarded JHU+Amazon AI2AI fellowship 2024–2025.
- May 2024: Interning at MERL — Speech & Audio
- June 2023: Participating in the SCALE 2023 Workshop at Johns Hopkins University
- June 2022: Participating in the JSALT 2022 Workshop at Johns Hopkins University
Contact
Email: ahussei6[at]jh.edu