As an artist, researcher and teacher, Anita brings transdisciplinary perspectives to research involving qualitative approaches and many forms of arts research in relation to curriculum studies and social and cultural issues in education. Research interests: artwork scholarship, arts research, a/r/tography, arts-based pedagogies, international art education, history of education, material culture, life writing, social fiction, spatial design of classrooms, curriculum theory, sociology of education, community art education, and pre-service and in-service teacher education.
Series Lead Editor, Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education
https://www.intellectbooks.com/artwork-scholarship-international-perspectives-in-education
Education
PhD, University of British Columbia
Research Interests
My long-term research goal is to build machines that naturally converse with humans. This represents an essential step to reach higher levels of artificial intelligence. My research mainly focuses on deep learning methods for Conversational AI. I’m the author or co-author of more than 60 papers. My current research interests are cooperative deep learning, self-supervised learning, and the development of novel neural models for sequence processing.
I’m the founder and leader of the SpeechBrain project. SpeechBrain is an open-source conversational AI toolkit that is gaining popularity within the speech and deep learning communities.
