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grazina korvel

Prof. Dr. Gražina Korvel

Department: Image and Signal Analysis Group
Position: Senior Researcher, Project Principal Researcher, Professor

Address: Akademijos st. 4, room 627, Vilnius
Tel: +370 5 210 9315
E-mail:  

 

 

Scientific and Pedagogical Background

Ph.D. 2013 Technological Sciences, Informatics Engineering (07T) Vilnius University, Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies
Research Advisor:  Prof. Dr. Vytautas Slivinskas, Academic Consultant: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Virginija Šimonytė
Thesis Title: “Analysis and synthesis of Lithuanian phoneme dynamic sound models”

M.Sc. 2009 Informatics (with honours) Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius

B.Sc. 2007 Mathematic Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius

Scientific activities

Research areas:
Signal model parameter estimation
Developing of sound mathematical models
Speech signal processing

 

Membership in scientific organizations:

Vice-Chairperson of the Young Academy of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Member of Lithuanian Computer Society
Member of Lithuanian Mathematical Society
Member of IEEE Computer Society
Member of INSTICC (the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information) 

Member of the SAPEA (Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission) group "Successful and timely uptake of Artificial Intelligence in science in the EU". The period of work is from September 2023 to February 2024.

 

Editorial Board member:

A member of editorial board of The Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (https://link.springer.com/journal/10844) 

Member of the Advisory Board, Natural Language Processing book series, John Benjamins Publishing Company (https://benjamins.com/catalog/nlp)

 

Conference organizing:

Program committee member at  International Conference “Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages” (LaTeLL 2026), 28–30 September 2026, Fes, Morocco.

Program Committee Member, 35th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2026), 14–17 September 2026, Padua, Italy

Program Committee Member, Research Track, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2026), 7–11 September 2026, Naples, Italy

Program Committee Member, Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026), 11–12 June 2026, Alicante, Spain

Program Committee Member, 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-12), 11 May 2026, Palma, Mallorca, Spain

Conference Chair, 14th Young Scientists’ Conference “Interdisciplinary Research in Physical Sciences and Technology”, 17 April 2026, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Program committee member at European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2025), September 15-19, 2025,  Porto, Portugal

Program committee member at 34th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks" (ICANN2025), September 9-12, 2025,  Kaunas, Lithuania

Workshop chair and Program committee member at "21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions" (MWE 2025), 4 May 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Organizing Committee Member and Discussion moderator, 13th Young Scientists' Conference "Interdisciplinary Research in Physical Sciences and Technology", 11 April 2025, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

Plenary session chair at the 15th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 28-30, 2024 Druskininkai, Lithuania

Program committee member of the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2024, 17-19 June 2024, Poitiers / Futuroscope, France

Discussion moderator, 12th Young Scientists' Conference "Interdisciplinary Research in Physical Sciences and Technology", 14 May 2024, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

Program committee member of European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2024), September 9-13, 2024, Vilnius

Session chair at the 14th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 30 – December 2, 2023 Druskininkai, Lithuania

Program committee member of International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2022, 3-5 October 2022, Cosenza, Italy

Session "Multidimensional Signal Processing" chair, the 16th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia, SIGMAP 2019, 26-28 July, Prague, Czech Republic

Session „Intelligent Audio Processing“ programme committee member, the 11th International Conference on Multimedia and Network Information System, 12-14 September 2018, Wrocław, Poland (https://missi.pwr.edu.pl/2018/sessions/MISSI_IAP_2018.pdf)

 

Reviewer of international journals:

Informatica www.mii.lt/informaticaBaltic Journal of Modern Computing https://www.bjmc.lu.lv/The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society www.aes.org/journalThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America https://asa.scitation.org/journal/jasScientific Reports: https://www.nature.com/srep/SN Applied Sciences: https://www.springer.com/journal/42452International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science https://www.amcs.uz.zgora.plInternational Journal of Human-Computer Interaction  https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/hihc20Discover Applied Sciences, Springer, https://link.springer.com/journal/42452Metrology and Measurement Systems http://www.metrology.pg.gda.plThe Journal of Intelligent Information Systems https://link.springer.com/journal/10844Phenomics https://www.springer.com/journal/43657 
 

Scientific publications

List of publications

Key publications over the last 5 years:
 
Plikynas, Darius; Marcinkevičius, Virginijus; Rizgelienė, Ieva; Zubaitienė, Vilma; Korvel, Gražina; Maliukevičius, Nerijus; Zaranka, Paulius. Propagandos aptikimas ir poveikis informacinio karo kontekste : monografija. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2026. 492 p. ISBN 9786090712573. eISBN 9786090712580. DOI: 10.15388/vupbook0059

Ramonaitė, Justina; Korvel, Gražina; Tamulevičius, Gintautas. Generative adversarial networks in speech enhancement: a survey // IEEE Access. Piscataway, NJ : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). ISSN 2169-3536. 2026, vol. 14, p. 29048-29071. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3667063

Blaszke, Maciej; Korvel, Gražina; Kostek, Bozena. Exploring neural networks for musical instrument identification in polyphonic audio // IEEE intelligent systems. Los Alamitos : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. ISSN 1541-1672. eISSN 1941-1294. 2024, vol. 39,
iss. 5, p. 25-36. DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2024.3392586

Korvel, Gražina; Treigys, Povilas; Kąkol, Krzysztof; Kostek, Bozena. Investigation of the Lombard effect based on a machine learning approach // International journal of applied mathematics and computer science. Warsaw : Sciendo. ISSN 1641-876X. eISSN 2083-8492. 2023, vol. 33, no. 3, p. 479-492. DOI: 10.34768/amcs-2023-0035

Koszewski, Damian; Görne, Thomas; Korvel, Gražina; Kostek, Bozena. Automatic music signal mixing system based on one-dimensional Wave-U-Net autoencoders // Eurasip journal on audio speech and music processing. New York : Springer. ISSN 1687-4722. eISSN 1687-4722. 2023,
vol. 2023, no. 1, art. no. 1, p. [1-17]. DOI: 10.1186/s13636-022-00266-3

Erdem, Erkut; Menekse, Kuyu; Semih, Yagcioglu; Frank, Anette; Parcalabescu, Letitia; Babii, Andrii; Oleksii, Turuta; Erdem, Aykut; Calixto, Iacer; Plank, Barbara; Lloret, Elena; Apostol, Elena-Simona; Truica, Ciprian-Octavian; Sandrih, Branislava; Martincic-Ipsic, Sanda; Berend, Gabor; Gatt, Albert; Korvel, Gražina. Neural natural language generation: a survey on multilinguality, multimodality, controllability and learning // Journal of artificial intelligence research: AI Access Foundation. ISSN 1076-9757. eISSN 1943-5037. 2022, vol. 73, p. 1131-1207. DOI: 10.1613/jair.1.12918

 

Presentations at scientific conferences

Invited talk:

Invited Panellist, “International Panel Discussing the Future of NLP Methods/Models”, NLPAICS 2026 Summer School, University of Alicante, Spain.

Conference participation:

  1.  Lėveris V., Korvel G. “Investigation of VITS Text-to-Speech for the Lithuanian Language”, Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai, 6 May 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  2. Černiauskas I., Korvel G. “Teksto požymių analizė ir jų efektyvumo vertinimas emocijų klasifikavimo uždavinyje”, Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai, 6 May 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  3. Bareikaitė E., Korvel G., Kilienė I. “Matematinių uždavinių klasifikavimas taikant natūralios kalbos apdorojimo ir mašininio mokymosi metodus”, Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai, 6 May 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  4. Mititelu V. B., Giouli V., Korvel G., Liebeskind C., Lobzhanidze I., Makhachashvili R., Markantonatou S., Markovic A., Stoyanova I. “The Challenges of Syntactic Descriptions of Multiword Expressions in Electronic Lexicography”, Electronic Lexicography in the 21st Century: Intelligent Lexicography (eLex 2025), 18–20 November 2025, Bled, Slovenia.
  5. Navickas G., Korvel G., Tamulevičius G. “Initial Study of Lithuanian Emotional Speech Synthesis” , 16th Conference on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 27–29, 2025 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  6. Dovidaitytė G., Korvel G. “Automatic Propaganda Technique Classification in Lithuanian News Articles Using Pretrained Language Models” , 16th Conference on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 27–29, 2025 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  7. Skirmantaitė G., Korvel G. “Survey of NLP Techniques for Detecting Alport Syndrome in Electronic Health Records”, 16th Conference on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 27–29, 2025 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  8. Rizgelienė, I., Vaitkevičiūtė, E., Korvel, G.; Zubaitienė, V., "A cluster-based linguistic analysis of propaganda techniques in Lithuanian news articles", ICAME46. Per Corpora ad Astra: exploring the past, mapping the future, 17-21 June 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania 
  9. Vaitkevičiūtė E., Korvel G., "Propagandos technikų lingvistinių požymių lyginamoji analizė taikant natūralios kalbos apdorojimo metodus", Mokslinė konferencija „Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai“, 2024 m. gegužės 13 d., Lietuvos mokslų akademija, Lietuva
  10. Žygas, A., Korvel, G. "Muzikos garso šaltinių atskyrimo giliojo mokymosi modelio SCNet apmokymas skirtingais duomenų rinkiniais", Mokslinė konferencija „Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai“, 2024 m. gegužės 13 d., Lietuvos mokslų akademija, Lietuva
  11. Ramonaitė J., Žiliajevas F., Korvel G., Tamulevičius G., "Noisy Phoneme Recognition Using 2D Convolution Neural Network"; 12th Workshop on Advances in Information, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (AIEEE), May 15-17, 2025, Lithuania
  12. Korvel G., Ramonaitė J., Zakševski D., Tamulevičius G., "Šnekos signalo kokybės didinimas naudojant gilųjį mokymąsi ir triukšmo profiliavimą", 65-oji Lietuvos Matematikų Draugijos konferencija, 2025 m. birželio 26 – 27 d., Klaipėdos univeritetas, Klaipėda, Lithuania
  13. Mititelu, V., Giouli, V., Korvel, G., Liebeskind, C., Lobzhanidze, I., Makhachashvili, R., Markantonatou S., Markovic A., Stoyanova, I., Survey on Lexical Resources Focused on Multiword Expressions for the Purposes of NLP. The 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions, May 4, 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
  14. F. Žiliajevas, J. Ramonaitė, D. Zakševski, G. Korvel, G. Tamulevičius, "Noise Dataset for Deep Learning-Based Speech Enhancement“, 15th Conference on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 28–30, 2024 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  15. A. Žygas, G. Korvel, "An Overview of the Machine Learning Algorithms Used for Music Source Separation“, 15th Conference on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 28–30, 2024 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  16. G Navickas, G. Raškinis, D. Mikulėnienė, V. Kardelis, I. Makauskaitė, P. Kasparaitis, M. Beniušė, L. Vėbra, S. Tolomanovas, A. Kazlauskienė, S. Milčiuvienė, G. Korvel, "Development of a Large Lithuanian Speech Corpus for Speech Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and Other Innovative Language Technologies“, 15th Conference on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 28–30, 2024 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  17. Rizgelienė, I., Korvel, G. "Comparative Analysis of Various Data Balancing Techniques for Propaganda Detection in Lithuanian News Articles". 16th International Baltic Conference, Baltic DB&IS 2024, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 30 – July 3, 2024
  18. Ramonaitė J., Korvel G., Wave-U-Net modelio pritaikymas šnekos signalo gerinimui triukšmingoje aplinkoje: Blockchain skaičiaus optimizavimo tyrimas ir jų įtaka šnekos signalo kokybei bei suprantamumui, 65-oji Lietuvos Matematikų Draugijos konferencija, 2024 m. birželio 27 – 28 d., Vilniaus universiteto Šiaulių akademija
  19. Petkutė, D., & Korvel, G. "Draudimo sektoriaus klientų atsiliepimų ir vertinimų nuotaikų kaitos analizė laike". Mokslinė konferencija „Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai“, 2024 m. gegužės 10 d., Lietuvos mokslų akademija
  20. Kondrataitė, E., Korvel, G. "Early Detection of Rare Diseases using Natural Language Processing". Mokslinė konferencija „Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai“, 2024 m. gegužės 10 d., Lietuvos mokslų akademija
  21. Zaranka, P., & Korvel, G. "Propagandos atpažinimas lietuviškame tekste naudojant transformeriais pagrįstus, iš anksto apmokytus daugiakalbius modelius". Mokslinė konferencija „Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai“, 2024 m. gegužės 10 d., Lietuvos mokslų akademija
  22. J. Ramonaitė, P. Gore, G. Korvel, G. Tamulevičius “Investigation of Speech Signal Processing Parameters in Wave-U-Net Source Separation”, The 14th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 30 – December 2, 2023 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  23. T. Piernicki, G. Korvel, B. Kostek “Acquiring Knowledge for Mimicking Dysarthric Speech by Incorporating Its Features into Synthetic Speech”, The 14th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 30 – December 2, 2023 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  24. G. Navickas, G. Korvel “UniDive – Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology”, The 14th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 30 – December 2, 2023 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  25. J. Ramonaitė, G. Korvel, "Noisy Phoneme Recognition Using 2D Convolution Neural Network"; 10th Jubilee Workshop on Advances in Information, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (AIEEE), April 27-29, 2023, Vilnius
  26. G. Korvel, A. Katsalis, K. Diamantaras, E. Lloret „Enrich Knowledge Graphs and Test Pre-trainedEnrich Knowledge Graphs and Test Pre-trainedLanguage Models in Graph2seq Tasks“, The 13th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, December 1 – 3, 2022 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  27. G. Korvel, G. Tamulevičius, J. Devenson „Speech Signal Enhancement for Audio Forensics: An Initial Study“, The 13th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, December 1 – 3, 2022 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  28. G. Korvel, P. Treigys, B. Kostek „Evaluation of Measures Applied to Monitor the Lombard Speech Signal
    in the Presence of Noise“, The 13th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, December 1 – 3, 2022 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  29. G. Korvel, K. Kąkol, P. Treigys, B. Kostek “Investigating the influence of noise interference on speech towards a future machine learning-based system for applying the Lombard effect automatically”, ISMIS 2022 : 26th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, 3-5 October, Cosenza, Italy
  30. G. Korvel, K. Kąkol, P. Treigys, B. Kostek „Examining the Self-Similarity Method for the Lombard Effect Recognition", The 12th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, December 2 – 4, 2021 Druskininkai, Lithuania
  31. G. Korvel, K. Kąkol, B. Kostek. “Similarity matrices applied to differentiate between Lombard and natural speech”. A lecture presentation at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Seattle, November 29 – December 3, 2021, Washington
  32. G. Korvel, P. Treigys, K. Kąkol, B. Kostek. "Lombardo šnekos ir jos akustinių ypatybių analizė". 20th Computer Science Scientific Conference, Computer Days – 2021, September 23-24, 2021, Klaipėda: KU, Lithuania
  33. G. Korvel, P. Treigys, B. Kostek. "Akustinių parametrų panašumo matricos taikymas tarpkalbiniams fonemų skirutumams išryškinti". The 62th Conference of Lithuanian Mathematical Society, June 16–17, 2021, Vilnius: VGTU, Lithuania.
  34. G. Korvel, B. Kostek „Discovering rule-based learning systems for the purpose of music analysis“, 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2–6 December 2019, San Diego, California
  35. Tamulevičius, G. Korvel, J. Bernatavičienė, P. Treigys “The Impact of Data Augmentation Based on White Noise for Noise-Robust CNN-Based Speech Recognition” 11th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 28 – 30, 2019, Druskininkai, Lithuania
  36. Korvel, K. Kąkol, B. Kostek “Evaluation of Lombard Speech Models in the Context of Speech Enhancement” 11th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 28 – 30, 2019, Druskininkai, Lithuania
  37. G. Navickas, G. Korvel, J. Bernataviciene “Overview of speech synthesis using LSTM neural networks” Computer Data Analysis and Modeling: Stochastics and Data Science : Proc. of the Twelfth Intern. Conf., Minsk, Sept. 18-22, 2019. – Minsk : BSU, 2019. – P. 257-261.
  38. G Korvel, O Kurasova, B Kostek "An Attempt to Create Speech Synthesis Model That Retains Lombard Effect Characteristics". The 16th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, SIGMAP 2019, 26-28 July, Prague, Czech Republic.
  39. G. Korvel, P. Treigys, G. Tamulevičius, J. Bernatavičienė, B. Kostek "Giliojo mokymo algoritmų taikymas lietuvių šnekos atpažinimo uždaviniuose". The 60th Conference of Lithuanian Mathematical Society, June 19–20, 2019, Vilnius: LKA, Lithuania.
  40.  K. Kąkol, G. Korvel, B. Kostek “Analysis of Lombard speech using parameterization and the objective quality indicators in noise conditionse”. 10th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 29 – December 1, 2018, Druskininkai, Lithuania
  41. G. Korvel, G. Tamulevičius, P. Treigys, J. Bernatavičienė, B. Kostek “Investigating Feature Spaces for Isolated Word Recognition”. 10th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, November 29 – December 1, 2018, Druskininkai, Lithuania
  42. M. Piotrowska, G. Korvel, A. Kurowski, B/ Kostek, A. Czyzewski "Machine Learning Applied to Aspirated and Non-Aspirated Allophone Classification–An Approach Based on Audio “Fingerprinting”", Audio Engineering Society Convention 145, October 17–20, 2018, New York, USA
  43. G Korvel, O Kurasova, B Kostek. „Comparative Analysis of Spectral and Cepstral Feature Extraction Techniques for Phoneme Modelling“. International Conference on Multimedia and Network Informa5on System, 12-14 September 2018, Wrocław, Poland
  44. M. Piotrowska, G. Korvel, B. Kostek, A. Rojczyk, A. Czyżewski "Objectivization of phonological evaluation of speech elements by means of audio parametrization", 11th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI), July 4-6, 2018, Gdansk, Poland
  45. G. Korvel, B. Kostek "Examining feature vector for phoneme recognition",  IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, December 18-20, 2017, Bilbao, Spain
  46. G. Korvel, P. Treigys, G. Tamulevičius „An Initial Investigation of Keyword Spotting using Convolutional Neural Network“, 9th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, 30 November – 2 December, 2017, Druskininkai, Lithuania
  47. G. Korvel “Parameter investigation of speech signals”, The 58th Conference of Lithuanian Mathematical Society, June 26–27, 2017, Vilnius: VU, Lithuania.
  48. G. Korvel “Analysis and synthesis of Lithuanian consonants”, The 8th International Workshop Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, December 1–3, 2016, Druskininkai, Lithuania
  49. G. Korvel “Developing mathematical models for speech sounds”, The 10th International Scientific Congress of Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum,  30 Juny – 2 July, 2016, Lodz, Poland
  50. G. Korvel, V. Šimonytė, V. Slivinskas “Mathematical modelling of Lithuanian speech consonants”,  The 55th Conference of Lithuanian Mathematical Society, June 26–27, 2014, Vilnius: MRU, Lithuania
  51. G. Korvel, V. Šimonytė, V. Slivinskas, “Random sequences analysis in excel using NUMXL” The 15th International Conference Teaching Mathematics: Retrospective and Perspectives, May 8–10, 2014, Liepaja, Latvia
  52. G. Korvel, V. Šimonytė, V. Slivinskas “Using Accord.Math library for the solution of mathematical modelling tasks” ” The 15th International Conference Teaching Mathematics: Retrospective and Perspectives, May 8–10, 2014, Liepaja, Latvia
  53. V. Slivinskas, G. Korvel, V. Šimonytė “Problems of Lithuanian speech synthesis”, The 5th International Workshop Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems, December 5–7, 2013, Druskininkai, Lithuania.

 

Scientific and other projects

R&D Project on Development of a Lithuanian Speech Synthesizer”, Agreement with the Media Support Fund No. (1.57) 15600 SU-4004, 25 November 2025 – December 2026. Position in the project: Research Activities Coordinator.

COST Action CA24128 “European Network to Advance the Development and Implementation of Vocal Biomarkers”, 27 October 2025 – 26 October 2029. Position in the project: MC Member.

Project of the Research Council of Lithuania No. S-MIP-24-118 “Human perception-inspired speech enhancement: integration of deep learning, noise profiling, and human auditory knowledge”, 2 September 2024 – 31 August 2027. Position in the project: Project Leader.

Project “Creation of the Great Lithuanian Speech Corpus (LIEPA-3)”, Project No. 02-023-K-0001, 12 March 2024 – 30 April 2026. The project is funded by the Economic Recovery and Resilience Plan “New Generation Lithuania”. Position in the project: Project Leader.

Project “Creation of the Lithuanian Language Speech Corpus for Generating Neural Voices for Speech Synthesis”, Contract No. (1.57) 15600-INS-70, 12 May 2025 – 30 April 2026. Position in the project: Coordinator of annotation activities.

Project of the Research Council of Lithuania No. S-SV-24-101 “Application of natural language processing methods for identification of clinical terms in electronic records”, 1 July 2024 – 30 August 2024. Position in the project: Scientific Supervisor.

Project “EDIH VILNIUS: accelerating green and digital transformation in Vilnius region”, No. 101083844, 15 February 2024 – 23 August 2024. Work carried out under an agreement with Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos. Position in the project: Senior Researcher.

Project of the Research Council of Lithuania No. S-VIS-23-8 “Research on propaganda and disinformation: automatic recognition by machine learning, impact and societal resilience”, 1 September 2023 – 30 June 2026. Position in the project: Principal Researcher.

COST Action CA21167 “Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive)”, September 2022 – September 2026. Position in the project: MC Member.

Postdoctoral Project “Investigating speech in the presence of noise interferences employing signal processing and machine learning methods”, July 2021 – July 2023. Position in the project: Researcher.

COST Action CA18231 “Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation”, 2019–2023. Position in the project: MC Member.

Postdoctoral Project “Analysis and Modeling of Consonants Using the Joint Additive Synthesis and Source-Filter Model Method”, December 2018 – December 2019. Position in the project: Researcher.

EU Structural Funds Project LIEPA2, December 2017 – December 2020. Position in the project: Senior Researcher.

COST Action CA15225 “Fractional-order systems – analysis, synthesis and their importance for future design”, 2016–2020. Position in the project: MC Substitute.

EU Structural Funds Project LIEPA (Services Controlled by Lithuanian Voice), 2013–2015. Position in the project: Project Expert.

professional development

  • VU Educational Competence Center 23-hour training program „International student groups: teaching, communication, and preparation of learning materials in English“, March 5-26, 2026
  • Lecture "How to learn to learn: tips for teachers and students" (2 hours), May 7, 2025
  • Lecture "Neuromyths and scientific literacy: how to distinguish research-based practices from myths or trends?" May 14, 2025
  • Lecture "Artificial intelligence from the perspective of learning sciences: how to create a sustainable future and avoid mistakes?" (2 hours) May 21, 2025
  • VU Educational Competence Center 16-hour training program "Teacher-Student Interaction. Motivation for learning", from 9 to 16 April, 2024
  • VU Educational Competence Center 20-hour training program on "Preparation of teaching materials", from 27 February to 26 March, 2024
  • Erasmus staff training visit to The Progress and Business Foundation in Krakow, Poland, 19-23 February, 2024
  • Scientific training at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, Period: 19 June - 1 July, 2023, Advisor: Prof. dr. hab. Inż. Bożena Kostek
  • Short-term scientific missions (STSM) at The International Hellenic University (IHU), Greece, Period: 15-20 May, 2023, Advisor: Prof. Konstantinos I. Diamantaras
  • Erasmus staff training visit to the Technical University of Košice (Slovakia), February 13-17, 2023
  • Scientific training at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, Period: 20 June - 9 July, 31 October - 5 November, 2022, Advisor: Prof. dr. hab. Inż. Bożena Kostek
  • The 11th Lisbon Machine Learning School – LxMLS 2021, July 7–15, 2021, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Scientific training at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, Period: 21 May - 15 June, 8-13 September, 22-27 September, 2019, Advisor: Prof. dr. hab. Inż. Bożena Kostek
  • Scientific training at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, Periods: 15 - 27 Januar, 15 April - 12 May, 2 - 27 October, 2018, Advisor: Prof. dr. hab. Inż. Bożena Kostek
  • Scientific training at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, Periods: 18 April - 18 Jun, 4-30 September, 23 October – 22 November, 2017, Advisor: Prof. dr. hab. Inż. Bożena Kostek
  • The 8th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, May 21–25, 2012, Estoril, Portugal.

Honours and Awards

2025

Vinius University Rector’s Science Award for outstanding scientific achievements.

2022

Best Poster Award, 13th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems,  Druskininkai, Lithuania

2019

Winner of the INFOBALT scholarship for young scientists. The presented work “Comparative analysis of Lithuanian consonant phoneme features”

Laureate of the 9rd young scientist conference “Interdisciplinary research in physical and technological sciences”, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Lithuania

2018

Best Poster Award, 10th International Workshop on Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems,  Druskininkai, Lithuania

2016

Certificate of Distinction for superior performance at the Young Researcher’s poster presentation, 10th International Scientific Congress of Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum, Lodz, Poland

2014

Certificate of merit for scientific work „Analysis and synthesis of Lithuanian phoneme dynamic sound models”, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Lithuania

2013

Diploma for the best presentation, 3rd young scientist conference “Interdisciplinary research in physical and technological sciences”, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Lithuania

 

Teaching Experience

Courses taught

Since 2024, a lecturer in Natural Language and Speech Signal Processing (Data Science, MSc).
Since 2020, a lecturer in Natural Language Processing (Information Systems Engineering and Data Science, BSc).
Since 2016, a developer and consultant for the PhD study modules Digital Signal Processing and Natural Language Processing.

International and invited teaching

Erasmus+ Teaching Visit, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia, 19-23 July, 2025
Lecturer, 3rd International Interdisciplinary PhD Summer School “AI and Beyond: Thinking Machines, Thinking Humans”, Vilnius University, Lithuania, 16–20 June 2025.
Erasmus+ Teaching Visit, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, 28-31 October, 2024
Erasmus+ Teaching Visit, University of Maribor (Slovenia), 15-19 April, 2019
Erasmus+ Teaching Visit, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, 16-20 October, 2017
Erasmus+ Teaching Visit, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, 12-17 December, 2016

Student Supervision

Ph.D. Students:

Justina Ramonaitė

  • Period of study: 1st October 2023–30th September 2027
  • Science field: Informatics (N 009)
  • The title of Thesis: Deep learning-based speech signal enhancement
  • Defended:

Academic consultant of Krzysztof Kąkol
Dissertation defended on 12 January 2023 at Gdansk University of Technology
Topic of research „A method for improving speech intelligibility using the Lombard effect and deep learning“

 

Master students:

Justina Ramonaitė, "Noisy speech recognition using machine learning", MIF VU, 2023

Eglė Kondrataitė, "Medical entity extraction from electronic health records for Alport syndrome patients, VU MIF, 2025 

Zaranka Paulius, "Utilizing transformer-based pre-trained multilingual models for propaganda technique span identification in Lithuanian textual data", VU MIF, 2025