Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor in Intelligent Systems, Discipline of Artificial Intelligence
School of Computer Science and Statistics, ADAPT Centre
The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland


Posdoctoral researchers

Jaimy Hannah
Research interests: Cognition, Psycholinguistics
Project keywords: Speech communication, social interaction, language, trust
Collaboration between the ADAPT Centre and Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT)

Research students

Sara Carta

PhD student
Project keywords: Speech perception, Selective Attention, Hearing Impairment; Check out Sara's latest preprint on the cortical encoding of phonemes in hearing impaired participants.


Amirhossein Chalehchaleh

PhD student
Project keywords: Speech perception, Semantic processing, Statistical learning


Emily Ip

PhD student
Project keywords: Speech perception, Statistical learning, Perspective taking


Martin Winchester

PhD student
Project keywords: Speech communication, Music perception, EEG, CNSP


John O'Doherty

PhD student
Project keywords: Music perception, Music decoding, Machine learning


Asena Akkaya

PhD student
Project keywords: Speech and music processing, Prosody, Social anxiety



Research staff

Fionn O'Connor

Visiting Research Assistant



Dissertation projects 2024-25

Meaghan McGoldrick (MAI): Keywords: Sign language, EEG
Arshad Mohammed (MCS): Keywords: Speech production, Decoding, Transformers
Holly Daly (MCS): Keywords: Hyperscanning, EEG, Speech communication
Evander Darius Sequeira (MSc): Keywords: Speech production, EEG
Sathvika Thorali Suresh (MSc): Keywords: Second language learning, large language models
Sudheendra Neela (MSc): Keywords: Speech perception, EEG, large language models
Sahana Hegde (MSc): Keywords: Music enjoyment, EEG
Cillian French (BA ICS): Keywords: Big data, CNSP, TRF

Alumni 2023-24

Fionn O'Connor (MCS): Keywords: Speech perception, humour, EEG
Aritro De (BA ICS): Keywords: Pupillometry, Auditory perception
Yifan Zhu (MSc): Keywords: Music perception, EEG, Music decoding
Sebastin Regitz (MSc): Keywords: Music perception, EEG, Music decoding
Haozhe Ma (MSc): Keywords: Sign language perception, EEG, image processing
Chiara D'Ercoli (MSc): Keywords: Speech perception, EEG, large language models

Alumni (2022-23)

Charbel Nebo (MAI): Keywords: Music perception, Statistical learning
Jeroen Lemsom (MSc): Keywords: Humor, Speech Perception, Statistics
Mehak Roy (MSc): Keywords: Speech Perception, Speech reconstruction, Auditory imagery
Isabel Moulton (MAI): Keywords: Speech Perception, Statistical learning, Decision making
Satwick Chandra (BA ICS): Keywords: Open science, CNSP
John O'Doherty (MCS): Keywords: Music decoding, Machine learning

Alumni (2021-22)

Kevin Reynolds (MSc): Keywords: Machine learning, Music perception, Statistical learning
Sophie Crowley (MSc): Keywords: EEG Decoding, Speech Reconstruction, Linguistics
Sean Brieffies (MSc): Keywords: Statistical learning, Auditory perception in infants
Ross McCrann (MCS): Keywords: Machine Learning, Open data
Nissimol Aji (MCS): Keywords: Music perception


Past Research staff

Aoife Igoe (Research assistant in 2023). Project keywords: Speech perception, Large language models, EEG data collection, CNSP


Past Visiting students/researchers

Giorgia Cantisani (Ecole Normal Superieure, 2022-23): Postdoc research visitor. Keywords: Speech and Music perception, Source separation, Machine learning; Check out Giorgia's latest study with us on speech and music perception.

Frank Sierra (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 2022-23): Post PhD research visitor. Keywords: Time perception, Neural Decoding, EEG.

Jwaad Hussain (Middlesex Univ, 2023): Visiting student. Keywords: Speech and music processing, EEG, ageing.

Giorgio Piazza (BCBL, 2023): Visiting student. Keywords: Speech perception, Phonological processing, EEG. Check out Giogio's talk at CNSP2023, where he presents the work he did with us at TCD (among other studies).

Jordi Martorell (BCBL, 2022): Visiting student. Keywords: Sentence processing, Syntax, Predictive processing, Oscillations, EEG/MEG.