Jonathan Avila

Hello! I recently graduated with a PhD in Computer Science under the guidance of Professor Nigel G. Ward at the University of Texas at El Paso. I'm actively seeking a position in applied research using machine learning for speech systems applications.

Publications

• Towards a Model of the Mapping Between English and Spanish Prosody. Jonathan E. Avila. Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso. 2023. PDF Companion site
• Towards Cross-Language Prosody Transfer for Dialog. Jonathan E. Avila and Nigel G. Ward. Interspeech 2023, 2143-2147. 2023. PDF ISCA Archive Poster GitHub repo
• A Dimensional Model of Interaction Style Variation in Spoken Dialog. Nigel G. Ward and Jonathan E. Avila. Speech Communication 149, 47-62. 2023. PDF
• Dialogs Re-enacted Across Languages. Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, and Emilia Rivas. UTEP Technical Report UTEP-CS-22-108. 2022. PDF
• Comparison of Models for Detecting Off-Putting Speaking Styles. Diego Aguirre, Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, and Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier. Interspeech 2022, 2303-2307. 2022. PDF ISCA Archive
• Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog. Nigel G. Ward, Jonathan E. Avila and Aaron M. Alarcon. Sigdial 2021, 2143-2147. 2021. PDF GitHub repo
• The UTEP Corpus of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog. Jonathan E. Avila, Nigel G. Ward, and Aaron Alarcon. UTEP Technical Report UTEP-CS-21-23. 2021. PDF

Projects

• Superres - a macOS application for upscaling images using Vision and Core ML to optimize performance on Mac hardware

Talks

• Towards Continuous Estimation of Spoken Dialog. Sigdial 2021. July 2021. YouTube (short) YouTube (full)
• Detecting Disappointment and Annoyance From Prosody in Merchant-customer Conversations. Texas Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. April 2021. Talk page