Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan received her Ph.D. in 2016 from Department of Electrical Engineering at university of Texas at Dallas, the Center for Robust Speech Systems. In December 2016 she joined Bosch Research and Technology Center at Sunnyvale, CA as research scientist.  Her research interests include the areas of human-machine systems, relating to audio, language, and cognitive processing. In her work at Bosch, she incorporates acoustic signal processing and domain-specific machine learning methods to develop hearing sense for machines. Shabnam is part of Bosch SoundSee team located at Sunnyvale, CA and Pittsburg, PA, USA.