Amir Ivry

I’m an incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (Language Technologies Institute), working with Prof. Shinji Watanabe.

My research develops models, measures, and methods that align the evaluation of spoken dialogue and speech systems with the ultimate compass: human perception. I focus on rebuilding today’s “broken compass” of evaluation to accelerate progress in speech-driven AI through reliable, fair, and perceptually grounded assessment of human-agent voice interactions.

From 2015–2025, I worked as an industry research scientist-most recently as Principal Researcher and Head of Data for Microsoft Teams. I completed a direct-track PhD at the Technion (2018–2023) on efficient personalization in speech systems, and was extremely fortunate to be advised by Prof. Israel Cohen and Dr. Baruch Berdugo.