Dr Gašper Beguš PhD


Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Linguistics

Research Themes:  Evolving Language in an Information Economy, The Communicating Mind and Body

Gasper Begus is an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley where he directs the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab. He is also the Linguistics Lead at Project CETI and a Member of Berkeley's Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Harvard.

In his research, he uses human, animal, and machine intelligence to understand the inner workings of AI and to better understand what language is and how it is learned. Gasper combines machine learning and statistical models with neuroimaging and behavioral experiments to better understand how deep neural networks learn internal representations and how humans learn to speak.
 
Research interests: Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Machine Learning, Phonetics, Phonology, Speech, Speech Perception

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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