Mahmoud Keshavarzi

(he/him/his)

University Position

Research Associate

Interests

Dr Mahmoud Keshavarzi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology. His research investigates the neural basis of speech and language processing, with a particular focus on dyslexia and developmental language disorder. He completed his PhD in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral research examined neural speech processing and its relationship to phonological and auditory difficulties in dyslexia. His research interests include developmental language disorders, dyslexia, auditory neuroscience, hearing , machine learning and signal processing.

Key Publications

Publications

Using recurrent neural networks to improve the perception of speech in non-stationary noise by people with cochlear implants

DOI: http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rukv3
Journal:
E-pub date: 11 Apr 2019
Authors: T Goehring, M Keshavarzi, R Carlyon, B Moore

Comparison of effects on subjective intelligibility and quality of speech in babble for two algorithms: A deep recurrent neural network and spectral subtraction.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1121/1.5094765
Journal: J Acoust Soc Am
E-pub date: 1 Mar 2019
Authors: M Keshavarzi, T Goehring, RE Turner, BCJ Moore

Use of a Deep Recurrent Neural Network to Reduce Wind Noise: Effects on Judged Speech Intelligibility and Sound Quality.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/2331216518770964
Journal: Trends Hear
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2018
Authors: M Keshavarzi, T Goehring, J Zakis, RE Turner, BCJ Moore