Recent News

We are pleased to announce that the 2DN team has published a new editorial in the New Zealand Medical Student Journal (Issue 39) titled: “With data in mind: AI applications in depression, autism and dementia care.” This editorial explores how AI and big data can...

We are delighted to share that our members, Dushanthi Madhushika and Rabia Rao, had their abstracts accepted at the HealtheX 2025 Conference. Dushanthi Madhushika presented her research through an oral presentation, showcasing her work on “Speech as a Digital...

We look forward to seeing you there.Whisper is one of the most advanced speech processing models, enabling state-of-the-art transcription and translation capabilities. This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of speech processing, explore Whisper and...

We are delighted to announce that the atypical speech team has two papers accepted at ICASSP 2025 around Dysarthric Speech Recognition! Dr. Singh will present the papers on 2DN behalf. The first paper, entitled "Dysarthric...

The 2DN team has four papers accepted at ICONIP 2024 and presented the papers in Auckland, New Zealand! The papers are yet to be indexed, so their links will be shared here.  

Should we be concerned about AI use in healthcare? Listen to Dr. Shahamiri's interview with Radio New Zealand to hear his thoughts.

Dr. Shahamiri spent the 2024 summer at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. While there, he further established collaboration with Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and his Statistical Speech...

"AI is revolutionizing many aspects of health provision and delivery, such as diagnostics and drug discovery". Read Dr. Shahamiri's opinion piece on the potential of AI in Healthcare at...

Researchers at the University of Auckland and 2DN were recently interviewed about AI's exciting opportunities and challenges.