Education:
PhD, Columbia University - 2010 (Electrical Engineering)
MPhil, Columbia University - 2008 (Electrical Engineering)
MS, Columbia University - 2006 (Electrical Engineering)
BSc, Massachussetts Institute of Technology - 2004 (Computer Science and Engineering)
Areas of Expertise:
Signal processing; machine learning; audio processing; noise robust automatic speech recognition; psychoacoustics.
Books and Publications
S. Maiti and M. I. Mandel, "Speech denoising by parametric resynthesis," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2019. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
A. R. Syed, V. A. Trinh, and M. I. Mandel, "Concatenative resynthesis with improved training signals for speech enhancement," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1195-1199, 2018. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
S. Maiti, J. Ching, and M. I. Mandel, "Large vocabulary concatenative resynthesis," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1190-1194, 2018. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
V. A. Trinh, B. McFee, and M. I. Mandel, "Bubble cooperative networks for identifying important speech cues," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1616-1620, 2018. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
V. Grover, M. I. Mandel, V. Shafer, Y. Syed, and A. Twine, "Understanding acoustic cues non-native speakers use for identifying english /v/-/w/ using bubble noise method," in ASHA Convention, 2018. (Books and Publications: Abstract) 2018
A. Syed, A. Rosenberg, and M. I. Mandel, "Active learning for low-resource speech recognition: Impact of selection size and language modeling data," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2017. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
J. Choi and M. I. Mandel, "Perception of Korean fricatives and affricates in 'bubble' noise by native and nonnative speakers," in International Circle of Korean Linguistics, 2017. (Books and Publications: Abstract) 2017
J. Devaney and M. I. Mandel, "An evaluation of score-informed methods for estimating fundamental frequency and power from polyphonic audio," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2017. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
M. I. Mandel and J. P. Barker, "Multichannel spatial clustering using model-based source separation," in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting, Deep Learning (S. Watanabe, M. Delcroix, F. Metze, and J. R. Hershey, eds.), ch. 3, Springer, 2017. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
S. Maiti and M. I. Mandel, "Concatenative resynthesis using twin networks," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 3647-3651, 2017. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1653.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
X. Xiao, S. Watanabe, H. Erdogan, M. Mandel, L. Lu, J. R. Hershey, M. L. Seltzer, G. Chen, Y. Zhang, and D. Yu, "Discriminative beamforming with phase-aware neural networks for speech enhancement and recognition," in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting, Deep Learning (S. Watanabe, M. Delcroix, F. Metze, and J. R. Hershey, eds.), ch. 4, Springer, 2017. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
H. Erdogan, J. Hershey, S. Watanabe, M. Mandel, and J. L. Roux, "Improved MVDR beamforming using single-channel mask prediction networks," in Proceedings of Interspeech, 2016. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
J. Devaney, M. I. Mandel, D. Turnbull, and G. Tzanetakis, eds., Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). ISBN: 978-0-692-75506-8. New York, 2016. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2016
M. I. Mandel and J. P. Barker, "Multichannel spatial clustering for robust far-field automatic speech recognition in mismatched conditions," in Proceedings of Interspeech, 2016. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
M. I. Mandel, "Directly comparing the listening strategies of humans and machines," in Proceedings of Interspeech, 2016. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
M. I. Mandel, S. E. Yoho, and E. W. Healy, "Measuring time-frequency importance functions of speech with bubble noise," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 140, pp. 2542-2553, 2016. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
X. Xiao, S. Watanabe, H. Erdogan, L. Lu, J. Hershey, M. L. Seltzer, G. Chen, Y. Zhang, M. Mandel, and D. Yu, "Deep beamforming networks for multi-channel speech recognition," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2016. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
D. Bagchi, M. I. Mandel, Z. Wang, Y. He, A. Plummer, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "Combining spectral feature mapping and multi-channel model-based source separation for noise-robust automatic speech recognition," in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
M. I. Mandel and N. Roman, "Enforcing consistency in spectral masks using Markov random fields," in Proceedings of EUSIPCO, 2015. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
M. I. Mandel and Y. S. Cho, "Audio super-resolution using concatenative resynthesis," in IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2015. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
S. S. Tirumala and M. I. Mandel, "Exciting estimated clean spectra for speech resynthesis," in IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2015. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
National Science Foundation Award IIS-1750383, June 2018 - May 2023. "CAREER: Integrating perceptual models of auditory importance into deep learning-based noise-robust speech recognition." PI: Michael Mandel. $497,162. (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
National Science Foundation Award OPP-1839185, September 2018 - August 2023. " Collaborative Research: Navigating the New Arctic (NNA): Soundscape ecology to assess environmental and anthropogenic controls on wildlife behavior." PI: Michael Mandel. $535,581. (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
Top 10% of reviewers Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2018, awarded free registration (Awards and Honors) 2018
Alfred P Sloan Foundation. CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award for Science and Engineering (JFRASE). April 2017 - March 2016. $50,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
National Science Foundation REU Supplement to Award IIS-1618061. July 2017 - December 2017. $8,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
Third prize for project "Auditory Bubbles Game", New York City Media Lab Summit, Demo Expo, 2017, $500 (Awards and Honors) 2017
Google Research Award, February 2016, "Incorporating a speech model into multichannel spatial clustering." PI: Michael Mandel. $50,430 (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
National Science Foundation Award IIS-1618061, June 2016 -- May 2019. "RI:Small: Concatenative Resynthesis for Very High Quality Speech Enhancement." PI: Michael Mandel. $449,958. (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Trad-B Project #69638-00 47, July 2016, "A game for identifying important speech cues." PI: Michael Mandel. $5,931. (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
Professional Leadership
Brooklyn College Computer and Information Science Appointments committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Brooklyn College Computer and Information Science Undergraduate Outcomes Assessment Committee Chair (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Brooklyn College Faculty Council Undergraduate Admissions Committee chair (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Organizer, North Eastern Music Information Special Interest Group (NEMISIG) Workshop (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
Program Chair, Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
Associate Editor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Speech Communication area (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2017
Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, 2016 - 2019 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2016
Publications chair, International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2016 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2016