Karn Watcharasupat
PhD candidate, Music Technology; Audio ML/AI/DSP Researcher
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Joined July 2026
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Karn is an accomplished academic in Music Technology, currently pursuing a PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology in the Music Informatics Group. Her research is centered on audio source separation, specifically developing algorithms to isolate individual instruments from complex audio mixes with flexibility and precision. gatech+3
She has a strong background in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University, graduating with highest honors and receiving the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal. This engineering foundation supports her interdisciplinary work in audio machine learning, AI, and digital signal processing. orcid+1
Karn has gained valuable industry experience through internships at top technology companies like Netflix and Apple, applying her audio separation research to real-world applications in film production and inclusive audio technologies. gatech+1
Her exceptional academic and research contributions have been recognized with prestigious awards such as the Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Machine Perception, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Scholarship, and the AAUW International Doctoral Degree Fellowship. gatech+2
Karn is a prolific researcher with over 20 peer-reviewed works and a co-inventor of a granted patent in asynchronous array source separation, demonstrating her significant impact on the fields of music information retrieval, machine learning, and audio signal processing. google+1
Work
Education
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Soundscape descriptors in eighteen languages: Translation and validation through listening experiments
January 1, 2024ARAUS: A large-scale dataset and baseline models of affective responses to augmented urban soundscapes
January 1, 2023Preliminary results of the Soundscape Attributes Translation Project (SATP): Lessons Learned and Next Steps
January 1, 2023FRCRN: Boosting feature representation using frequency recurrence for monaural speech enhancement
January 1, 2022Quantitative evaluation approach for translation of perceptual soundscape attributes: Initial application to the Thai Language
January 1, 2022Examines a quantitative evaluation method based on the circumplex model of soundscape perception to assess overall translation quality of soundscape attributes from English to Thai.
Crossing the linguistic causeway: A binational approach for translating soundscape attributes to Bahasa Melayu
January 1, 2022Probably Pleasant? A Neural-Probabilistic Approach to Automatic Masker Selection for Urban Soundscape Augmentation
January 1, 2022SALSA: Spatial Cue-Augmented Log-Spectrogram Features for Polyphonic Sound Event Localization and Detection
January 1, 2021SALSA-Lite: A Fast and Effective Feature for Polyphonic Sound Event Localization and Detection with Microphone Arrays
January 1, 2021DCASE 2021 Task 3: Spectrotemporally-aligned Features for Polyphonic Sound Event Localization and Detection
January 1, 2021Hobbies
Karn was a 'band kid' in high school, deeply involved in band programs and developed a love for music and mathematics. gatech
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