Join Dr. Ivan Tashev, Partner Software Architect at Microsoft Research, for an insightful session on "Generative Audio and Its Applications." Explore the cutting-edge role of audio in generative AI, from enhancing emotional connections to enabling multimodal experiences. Dr. Tashev will delve into innovative AI systems that generate and synchronize audio across different modalities, with real-world applications in fields like accessibility, entertainment, and beyond. This talk will feature key research from the Audio and Acoustics Research Group at Microsoft Research, shedding light on how generative audio is transforming the way we interact with technology. Topic: Generative audio and its applications Description: Audio—including sound and music—has the power to foster emotional connections and promote social bonding. As a vital human sense that complements vision, it remains relatively underexplored in generative AI research. By positioning audio as a key social-emotional layer of AI, we underscore its transformative potential in building more inspiring and context-aware systems. This talk presents an overview of key approaches within the broader generative AI landscape, with a focus on the role of audio. Audio-language models can generate captions, labels, or free-form text from audio signals, enabling applications such as question answering. Moreover, generating audio from prior audio inputs or from other modalities—such as text, images, or video—opens the door to compelling multimodal models and experiences. For instance, AI systems can synchronize audio and video streams or produce coordinated audio-visual outputs. The talk will be illustrated with research projects from the Audio and Acoustics Research Group at Microsoft Research. Biography: Dr. Ivan Tashev is a Partner Software Architect in Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond, WA, USA, where he leads the Audio and Acoustics Research Group. His interests include multichannel signal processing and machine learning and artificial intelligence for signal processing. Ivan Tashev also coordinates the Brain-Computer Interfaces project in MSR. Dr. Tashev have published two books, two book chapters, 100+ scientific papers, listed as inventor in 50 US patents. Ivan Tashev is affiliate professor in the Department for Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Washington in Seattle, USA, and honorary professor at Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Technologies created by Dr. Tashev are incorporated in many Microsoft products, he served as the audio architect for Kinect and for HoloLens. He is an IEEE Fellow, member of AES and ASA. More details about him can be found in his web page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/ivantash/. [] Agenda: 5 PM - 5.30 PM Networking and light snacks 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM Guest Talk by Distinguished Speaker Dr. Ivan Tashev 6.30 PM - 7.00 PM Networking and Wrap up Room: 629, Bldg: Bannan, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109-5210, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/497967

#ieeeday Free Registration (with a Zoom account; you can get one for free if you don't already have it. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account — not necessarily the one you used to register for the event.): https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/GGH84KjiSTiIr_W1K8MJVg Synopsis: In an era where data never sleeps, streaming algorithms offer a powerful toolkit for extracting meaningful insights from high-velocity data flows. This talk explores some foundational techniques that enable efficient, real-time analytics with minimal memory requirements. The algorithms covered include a clever bit-based strategy for approximating the count of 1s in a sliding window, ideal for binary streams where space efficiency is paramount. Another algorithm helps estimate statistical moments (mean, variance, skewness) using compact sketches, enabling a deeper understanding of stream distributions without storing the entire dataset. One other algorithm identifies trending items with exponential decay, giving more weight to recent data, a crucial method for dynamic environments like social media or sensor networks. Techniques like these form the backbone of intelligent stream processing. Through intuitive examples and practical applications, this session will demystify how these algorithms work, why they matter, and how they can be used to monitor, summarize, and react to data in motion. --------------------------------------------------------------- By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Speaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/497694

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EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/492308

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