Aaricia Herygers

[Zoekt NT2-docenten voor onderzoek!] Speech & Language Technology Researcher

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

About

I’m a certified Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer. My background as a Voice Technologist (MSc Hons) and Linguist (MA) allows me to bring in a fresh perspective to AI teams. My interests include speech, tech, and attitudes toward German. I’ve worked and published research on Trustworthy Speech Processing, specifically looking at Bias in Flemish Speech Recognition, Cross-lingual Phoneme Recognition, and EdTech. I also chaired the KONVENS 2023 Conference on Natural Language Processing and StuTS/TaCoS 2022 Student Conference on (Computational) Linguistics. I’m passionate about empowering women, providing girls with the tools to get into STEM fields, breaking down barriers, and all things gender. I spend my free time volunteering, for example as part of the Publicity Committee for INTERSPEECH 2025 or by co-organizing the Young Female* Researchers in Speech Workshop 2024. In the past I was on the on the boards of ISCA-SAC as lead for the Doctoral Consortium 2024 organization, Junge Sprachwissenschaft e.V., and the International Language & Linguistics Students' Association.

Experience

  • Junior Researcher at The University of Göttingen
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    Interpretability of Transfer in Multilingual Models

  • IT Trainer at edv-coaching.de GmbH
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    IT trainings for Python, SPSS, R, LaTeX

  • Co-Founder & Social Media Manager at CodeStart
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Computational Linguist at alphaspeech
    Aug 2024 - Jan 2025 · 6 mos

    Automatic Speech Recognition Research & Development

  • Junior Researcher at University of Amsterdam
    Feb 2024 - Jun 2024 · 5 mos

    Research and Data Science in Persuasive Communication at Department of Communication Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences