Dr. Madhu Pahar
Senior Research Fellow · University of Sheffield
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Self-driven, quick starter, passionate programmer with a curious mind who enjoys solving complex and challenging real-world problems using AI.
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In the Media
What your speech could reveal about your brain health
September 2026Express Healthcare
An interview discussing how CognoSpeak, an AI-powered tool analysing speech and language, could help identify patients who need further investigation for cognitive decline.
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Is your cough Covid-related?
September 2021News24
Coverage of research showing that COVID-19 positive coughs are 15% to 20% shorter than non-COVID coughs, highlighting the potential of audio classification as a non-contact screening tool.
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COVID-19 cough research on YouTube
September 2021YouTube
Video coverage of the Stellenbosch University research on detecting COVID-19 from cough sounds using machine learning and smartphone recordings.
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6 Papers Accepted to Interspeech 2026
2026We are thrilled to share that 6 of our papers have been accepted to Interspeech 2026, including work on speech biomarkers for dementia detection.
PROCESS-2: New Benchmark Speech Dataset Released
2026PROCESS-2 is a new large-scale speech dataset with 400 participants across the UK, designed for cognitive assessment and dementia detection research. Available now under controlled access.
Neural Audio Codec Models for Dementia Detection
2026Research visit at the University of Sheffield exploring neural audio codec models for dementia detection – a unified speech representation approach without requiring separate transcription.
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