PhD in Information Technology (Affective Computing), James Cook University
Arushi
(Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology))
College of Business, Law & GovernanceQualification
PhD in Information Technology (Affective Computing)
Institution
James Cook University
Country
SG
City
Singapore
Subject
Affective Computing
Date
2019 - 2025
Description
• Created a proprietary dataset (VRPS) with 60 participants, labeling stressed vs non-stressed voice samples • Developed signal processing pipelines for audio cleaning, feature extraction (MFCCs, RMS, ZCR et cetera) and model input • Designed and deployed real-time ML models for voice-based stress detection using Librosa, TensorFlow and Keras • Built a Virtual Reality public speaking training application integrating real-time stress feedback and adaptive agents • Achieved high accuracy using ANN architectures for stress classification • Presented findings at IEEE CoG and TALE; published 3+ peer-reviewed papers