Dr. Cenk Demiroğlu is a faculty member at Özyeğin University, Istanbul, in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006, where he specialized in multisensor-based speech enhancement. He also holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from the University of Nebraska and Boğaziçi University, respectively.
With a professional career spanning academia and industry, Dr. Demiroğlu has worked at institutions such as Sensory Inc., MultiModal Technologies, and Custom Speech USA, where he developed speech synthesis and recognition systems for embedded and medical applications. Since 2009, he has led the Speech and Language Research Lab at Özyeğin University.
His research interests include voice-based health diagnostics (e.g., detecting depression, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s), conversational systems, large language models, speech synthesis and recognition, and speaker verification with a focus on spoofing and counter-spoofing techniques.
He has supervised numerous M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and led multiple nationally and internationally funded projects, including those by TUBITAK and the European Union. Dr. Demiroğlu has published extensively in top-tier journals and conferences and holds a U.S. patent on speaker-dependent speech user profiling.