About
I am a PhD student at the Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA, advised by Prof.Abeer Alwan.
Prior to this, I obtained a BSc degree with First Class Honours in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
My current research focuses on investigating the Automatic Speech Recognition.
Selected Publications
View All →Selective Attention Merging for low resource tasks: A case study of Child ASR
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Eray Eren, Abeer Alwan
ICASSP 2025
CHSER: A Dataset and Case Study on Generative Speech Error Correction for Child ASR
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Kaiyuan Zhang, Mohan Shi, Abeer Alwan
Interspeech 2025
News
2026-01
Our work has been accepted by ICASSP 2026 🎉
2025-12
Passed my PhD Preliminary Exam!