Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro

Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro

  • Since 2025:
    Management Committee member in Germany for the European Network to Advance the Development and Implementation of Vocal Biomarkers (eVoiceNet)
  • 07.2025-ongoing:
    Scientific Representative, Profile Center Medical Engineering (FAU MT), Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • Since 2024:
    Postdoctoral Researcher at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • 12/2023-01/2025:
    Guest researcher at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
  • Since 08/2023:
    Guest researcher at King's College, London
  • 2022:
    Activity-Leader/Coordinator of the EIT Health M.Sc. in HMDA
  • 04/2021 - 08/2024:
    PhD Candidate at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • 10/2020-04/2021:
    Spirio Sessions Projekt at TH Nürnberg
  • 01/2019-07/2024:
    Lecturer at Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Antioquia, Colombia

2024

  • Netzschutz-KI: Coordinated grid protection based on machine learning methods

    (Third Party Funds Single)

    Project leader: , ,
    Term: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027
    Acronym: Netzschutz-KI
    Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)

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2025

  • : Elsbeth Wendler-Kalsch Promotionspreis – 2025
  • : ATE Promotionspreis (Alumni TF Erlangen) – 2025

2024

  • : Taukadial Challenge (Interspeech 2024) – 2024
  • : Summa Cum Laude PhD Thesis (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – 2024

2023

  • : Travel Grant (Interspeech) – 2023

2020

  • : Scholarship for exchange students (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)) – 2020

2019

  • : Research Intership (Bayerische Hochschulzentrum für Lateinamerika (BAYLAT)) – 2019
  • : "Estudiante Instructor" Best Admission Exam for Master's degree (Univesity of Antioquia) – 2019

2018

  • : Best Bachelor degree projects (University of Antioquia) – 2018

Current Theses & Projects

Title Type Student Period Status
AI-Driven IVI Startup Performance Diagnostics and Optimization Recommendations Using LLMs MA thesis Anson Jose May 2026 – Nov 2026 running
MRI Reconstruction MA thesis Aug 2026 running
Alzheimers subtype classification and analysis Project Fayaiz Uddin May 2026 – Oct 2026 running
Speech Emotion Recognition MA thesis Ahmed Abdelwahed running
Machine Learning Approaches for Depression Detection Using Speech Data MA thesis Vanshika Vanshika running
Prediction of the ear canal from 3D ear impression models MA thesis Mahshid Afshari running
Large Language Models for Surgical Workflow Monitoring and Summarization MA thesis Daoqi Jin running
Temperatures in MRI Scanners MA thesis running
Multimodal Speech MRI MA thesis Julian Hernadez-Potes running
Multimodal Aphasia Detection MA thesis Ziyue Wang running
Towards Autonomous Knowledge Evolution: A Self-Evolving Knowledge Graph-Based Retrieval Framework for Domain-Specific Intelligent Systems MA thesis Souranil Kahali Oct 2025 – Apr 2026 running
Aphasia Assessment with Speech and Language MA thesis running
Aphasia Assessment Using Deep Learning MA thesis Piuli Basu running
Text Embedddings in Pathological Speech Project running
Transferring of emotional knowledge: from quantitative emotions to qualitative emotions Project Maneesha Thomas Dec 2023 running

Open Positions

Title Type Student Period
ASR In Medical Domain with Siemens MA thesis Jul 2026 – Jan 2027

Completed Theses & Projects

Title Type Student Period Status
Automatic Prediction of German Regional Accents MA thesis Veronika Stengl finished
Machine Learning Approaches for Depression Detection Using Speech Data MA thesis Vanshika Vanshika finished
DistNeural networks for hearing aid processing MA thesis Amiri Paria finished
Investigating the Influence of Different Motion Sensors for Detecting Parkinson’s Disease MA thesis Mohammad Hamza Sep 2025 finished
MRI-Based Learning Approaches for Cross-Dataset Dementia Classification MA thesis Hamideh Hamidnezhad finished
Annotation by Speech in Radiology MA thesis Jan Geier finished
Android App Respiratory Diseases MA thesis finished
Gen AI: Speech Emotion Recognition MA thesis Md Raihan May 2025 – Nov 2025 finished
Speech Emotion Recognition Demo Project finished
Text Generation in Alzheimer’s Disease MA thesis Mahmoud Alimizel Jul 2024 – Jan 2025 finished
A Bias Analysis on Audio and Linguistic Embeddings for the Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease MA thesis Kashaf Gulzar Sep 2023 finished
Generation of Clinical Text Reports from Chest X-Ray Images Project Md Hasan Feb 2024 – Aug 2024 finished
Graph Neural Networks in Pathological Speech MA thesis finished
Cross-Dataset Phonological Speech Analysis of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate MA thesis Marta López-Brea García Dec 2023 – Jun 2024 finished
Automatic recognition of bavarian dialects Project Veronika Stengl Nov 2023 – Apr 2024 finished
Large Language Model for Generation of Structured Medical Report from X-ray Transcriptions MA thesis Uttam Asodariya Sep 2023 – Mar 2024 finished
Natural Language Text Generation for Symbolic Descriptions Using Language Models MA thesis Deepak Parappagoudar Aug 2023 – Dec 2023 finished
Word Embeddings Applied to Alzheimer’s Disease Project Uttam Chandubhai Asodariya Nov 2022 – Mar 2023 finished
Edge-AI: Self-sensing backpressure estimation in piezoelectric micropumps using machine learning methods on a limited hardware MA thesis Mohammadhossien Sheikhsarraf May 2023 – Nov 2023 finished
Alzheimer’s Disease and Depression: A Bias Analysis and Machine Learning Investigation Project Kashaf Gulzar Oct 2023 finished
Empathetic Deep Learning to the Rescue: Speech Emotion Recognition from Adults to Children MA thesis Elina Lesyk Feb 2022 – Jul 2022 finished
Classical Acoustic Markers for Depression in Parkinson’s Disease BA thesis Luca Manzke Feb 2022 – Jul 2022 finished