Publications

This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.

2026

Speech Codec Probing from Semantic and Phonetic Perspectives

Xuan Shi, Chang Zeng, Tiantian Feng, Shih-Heng Wang, Jianbo Ma, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10371,  2026

VoxCare: Studying Natural Communication Behaviors of Hospital Caregivers through Wearable Sensing of Egocentric Audio

Tiantian Feng, Kleanthis Avramidis, Anfeng Xu, Deqi Wang, Brandon M Booth, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10888,  2026

Trade-offs Between Capacity and Robustness in Neural Audio Codecs for Adversarially Robust Speech Recognition

Jordan Prescott, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09034,  2026

Accent Vector: Controllable Accent Manipulation for Multilingual TTS Without Accented Data

Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Thanapat Trachu, Jihwan Lee, Tiantian Feng, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07534,  2026

Targeted Speaker Poisoning Framework in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech

Thanapat Trachu, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07551,  2026

Learning-free L2-Accented Speech Generation using Phonological Rules

Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Yoonjeong Lee, Jihwan Lee, Tiantian Feng, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07550,  2026

Reconstruct! Don't Encode: Self-Supervised Representation Reconstruction Loss for High-Intelligibility and Low-Latency Streaming Neural Audio Codec

Junhyeok Lee, Xiluo He, Jihwan Lee, Helin Wang, Shrikanth Narayanan, Thomas Thebaud, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jesús Villalba, Najim Dehak
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.05887,  2026

Affect Decoding in Phonated and Silent Speech Production from Surface EMG

Simon Pistrosch, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Jihwan Lee, Monica Gonzalez-Machorro, Shrikanth Narayanan, Björn W Schuller
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11715,  2026

Towards defending crosstalk-mediated attacks in multi-tenant quantum computing

Devika Mehra, Amir Kalev
Physica Scripta,  2026

Exploring Perceptual Limitations of Multimodal LLMs on Small Visual Objects

Jiarui Zhang, Jinyi Hu, Mahyar Khayatkhoei, Filip Ilievski, Maosong Sun
Transactions on Machine Learning Research,  2026

Guest editor’s note: Special issue on system-level innovations for performance and fairness at scale: From interconnects to schedulers

Roman Wyrzykowski, Ewa Deelman
The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 40 (2 …,  2026

BBRv3 Startup Behavior: Analysis and Fairness Enhancements

Imtiaz Mahmud, Kesheng Wu, Alex Sim, Anirban Mandal, Ewa Deelman
2026 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications …,  2026

Validating TCP Behavior in DISTRI: A Comparison of Simulated and Real-World Network Performance for Distributed Computing

Imtiaz Mahmud, Kesheng Wu, Alex Sim, Anirban Mandal, Ewa Deelman
2026 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications …,  2026

CUT&tag analysis reveals a crucial role of H3K4 trimethylation occupancy in cold-related genes by cold stress on cotton

Yu Gao, Ahmed Nasre, Mayamiko Masangano, Yuzhi Zhang, Gongye Cheng, Songjuan Tan, Meng Kang, Yu Liang, Xiaoyu Cao, Xiaoyu Pei, Xiang Ren, Kunlun He, Xingxing Wang, Xiongfeng Ma, Zhenyu Wang
BMC plant biology,  2026

An Approach to Simultaneous Acquisition of Real-Time MRI Video, EEG, and Surface EMG for Articulatory, Brain, and Muscle Activity During Speech Production

Jihwan Lee, Parsa Razmara, Kevin Huang, Sean Foley, Aditya Kommineni, Haley Hsu, Woojae Jeong, Prakash Kumar, Xuan Shi, Yoonjeong Lee, Tiantian Feng, Takfarinas Medani, Ye Tian, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Krishna S Nayak, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Richard M Leahy, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04840,  2026

Asymmetric Idiosyncrasies in Multimodal Models

Muzi Tao, Chufan Shi, Huijuan Wang, Shengbang Tong, Xuezhe Ma
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22734,  2026

Theory Discovery in Social Networks: Automating ERGM Specification with Large Language Models

Yidan Sun, Mayank Kejriwal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04306,  2026

Fragile Thoughts: How Large Language Models Handle Chain-of-Thought Perturbations

Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Mayank Kejriwal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03332,  2026

ECHO: Encoding Communities via High-order Operators

Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22446,  2026

MOSAIC: Unveiling the Moral, Social and Individual Dimensions of Large Language Models

Erica Coppolillo, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.00048,  2026