Gen AI / Inclusive AI / Speech Processing
Satwinder Singh
AI/ML researcher and engineer building technologies for voices that conventional systems leave behind.
About
Technology should understand human difference before it claims to serve human needs.
I work on inclusive AI for speech and language technologies, with a focus on automatic speech recognition for atypical speech, low-resource settings, and accessibility-driven systems. My research sits between deep learning, clinical collaboration, and real-world deployment, translating technical systems into tools that can be useful beyond benchmark tables.
Skills
A research toolkit spanning speech systems, machine learning, implementation, and accessible product thinking.
Experience
Past roles across research, teaching, applied AI, and academic collaboration.
Accenture / Auckland, New Zealand
Creating AI solutions for clients
Dept. of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, University of Auckland / Auckland, NZ
> Working on Automatic Speech Recognition for Dysarthric Speech.
> Supervising undergraduate and postgraduate research.
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Massey University / Auckland, NZ
> Worked on Natural language processing for Q&A in indigenous/vernacular languages.
> Project funded by MBIE Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Singapore Data Science Research Programme.
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Massey University / Auckland, NZ
> Assisted with Course: Information Sciences Research Methods (158750).
> Worked on funding applications such as Marsden and MURF.
> Conducted research and data collection for Catalyst Funding Project.
Pinnacle Global Academy (PGA) / Auckland, NZ
> Taught Mathematics and Python programming.
> Prepared students for competitive exams.
Faculty of Computational Sciences, GNA University / Punjab, INDIA
> Taught graduate and post-graduate courses.
> Managed lecture scheduling and supervised examinations.
> Supervised students' postgraduate research.
Capabilities
Speech recognition for atypical speech and underrepresented speakers.
Language technologies designed for constrained and low-resource settings.
Deep learning systems with an accessibility-first research lens.
Collaboration with clinicians, students, and community partners.
Satwinder Singh*, Qianli Wang*, Zihan Zhong*, Clarion Mendes†, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson†, Waleed Abdulla*, Seyed Reza Shahamiri*
Interspeech 2026
Zihan Zhong, Qianli Wang, Satwinder Singh, Clarion Mendes, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Waleed Abdulla, Seyed Reza Shahamiri
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Satwinder Singh, Qianli Wang, Zihan Zhong, Clarion Mendes, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Waleed Abdulla, Seyed Reza Shahamiri
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), India, 2025
Qianli Wang, Zihan Zhong, Satwinder Singh, Clarion Mendes, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Waleed Abdulla, Seyed Reza Shahamiri
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), India, 2025
Lei, Chengxi; Singh, Satwinder; Hou, Feng; Wang, Ruili
Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia
Satwinder Singh, Zihan Zhong, Qianli Wang, Clarion Mendes, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Waleed Abdulla, Seyed Reza Shahamiri
International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), New Zealand, 2024
Chengxi Lei, Satwinder Singh*, Xiaoyun Jia, Feng Hou, Ruili Wang
ACM MM Asia, 2023
Selected Work
October 2025
Part 4 Research students delivered outstanding work across a range of impactful topics and Secured best industry project in image and voice processing catrory 1 and 2.
September 2025
Organized and led a one-day workshop on Transformer models with hands-on practical sessions at the University of Auckland.
April 2025
Presented two papers on dysarthric speech recognition at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in India.
December 2024
Presented research on comprehensive performance evaluation of Whisper models in dysarthric speech recognition at ICONIP in New Zealand.