About Me
Hello! I’m Karan Thakkar, a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Under Professor Mounya Elhilali at the Laboratory of Computational Audio Perception, I’m pioneering AI and brain-inspired models to decode how we hear and process sound.
Beyond the lab, I paint and mix music—melding creativity with computation. Explore my technical journey in my CV, and feel free to reach out—I’m always up for new ideas and collaborations!
Milestones in My Ph.D. Journey
- Apr'25: Computational Modelling of Auditory Attention — Thesis proposal & GBO completed.
- Feb'25: SoloAudio at ICASSP 2025.
- Oct'24: Paper in Nature Communications Biology.
- Aug'24: Internship at Apple.
- Apr'24: DreamVoice accepted at INTERSPEECH 2024.
- Dec'23: Two ICASSP 2024 acceptances — diffusion-based extraction & self-supervised audio representations.
- Nov'23: Released PyTorch repo for auditory envelope decoding from EEG.