Malek Itani
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CSE 314
185 E Stevens Way NE
Seattle, WA 98195
Current Electrical Engineering PhD student at the University of Washington in Seattle. Research Assistant in the Mobile Intelligence Lab working with Prof. Shyam Gollakota in the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering.
My current research interests lie broadly in the areas of mobile systems, embedded systems, machine learning, audio & speech, and small-scale robotics. I am committed to exploring innovative intersections among these fields to drive impactful advancements.
I received my bachelor’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut while working with Prof. Joseph Costantine at the Electromagnetics Lab.
News
May 14, 2024 | Our paper, “Look Once to Hear: Target Speech Hearing with Noisy Examples”, received an Honorable Mention at CHI 2024! |
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Mar 26, 2024 | Semantic Hearing was featured on The Verge’s flagship podcast The Vergecast. You can listen to it here! |
Nov 9, 2023 | Our paper, “Semantic Hearing: Programming Acoustic Scenes with Binaural Hearables”, was covered by MIT Technology Review! Read the story here! |
Oct 5, 2023 | Our paper, “Creating speech zones with self-distributing acoustic swarms”, has been featured in Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights! |
Selected Publications
2024
- Look Once to Hear: Target Speech Hearing with Noisy ExamplesIn Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
2023
- Semantic Hearing: Programming Acoustic Scenes with Binaural HearablesIn Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2023
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- Wireless Earbuds for Low-Cost Hearing ScreeningIn Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Jun 2023