Presenter

Ishwarya Ananthabhotla is a Research Scientist on the Meta Reality Labs Research Audio Team. She works on machine learning applied to problems in room acoustics, spatial audio, auditory perception, and behavior and communication understanding in conversations. More generally, her research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, audio, signal processing, and auditory cognition. She completed her Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2015, her M.Eng. from MIT in 2016, and her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2021. She was supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016-2019) and the Apple AI/ML Fellowship (2020-2022).