Dorsa Zeinali

Dorsa Zeinali is a Computer Science PhD student at Northeastern University since July 2023, previously serving as an undergraduate researcher at Carnegie Mellon University from February 2022 to July 2023. Dorsa has developed expertise in speech recognition, independently learning frameworks such as ESPnet and contributing models to the toolkit on GitHub, including a speech recognition model for Bengali. Notable projects include creating benchmarks for language-universal alignments, improving automatic speech recognition for code-switching, and employing custom machine learning models during a data science internship at Behaivior. Dorsa's research experience encompasses a range of academic institutions, with skills in independent problem-solving, systematic experimentation, and conducting thorough literature reviews. Academic credentials include a Bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University and ongoing doctoral studies at Northeastern University.