Hi, I'm Darius!
Current Role
I am a Research Scientist at Netflix, working on Speech and Audio. Previously, I was an Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI on the Audio Foundation Model team, working on audio understanding and reasoning.
Research Focus
My research focuses on audio and speech source separation and neural audio coding, with additional work in audio classification, automatic speech recognition, and generative modeling. I have published in venues such as IEEE Transactions, ICASSP, WASPAA, and ISMIR.
Background
I earned my PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering from Indiana University, advised by Dr. Minje Kim.
Before my PhD, I worked as a full-time engineer on the Apple Music Apps Team (Logic Pro, GarageBand). During my PhD, I completed research internships at:
