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Dr. Giovanni Di Liberto

Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Assistant Professor (Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN))
OREILLY INSTITUTE
      
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Dr. Giovanni Di Liberto

Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
OREILLY INSTITUTE

 gdiliber@tcd.ie

 3531896 1261

Assistant Professor (Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN))


Giovanni is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, at Trinity College Dublin. He is also affiliated with the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) and the ADAPT Centre. Using computational methods grounded in Computer Science and Engineering, Giovanni's team investigates how the human brain processes speech and music, impacting a range of research domains, from the study of early brain development to hearing impairment. Giovanni's supervises a multidisciplinary team including six PhD students (+1 co-supervised student), one postdoctoral researcher, and eight Master's students. Giovanni received his Bachelor's degree in Information Engineering in 2011 and his Master's degree in Computer Engineering in 2013, both from the University of Padova, Italy. After a period working on his thesis at University College Cork (UCC, Ireland), he joined Edmund Lalor's research lab in Trinity College Dublin where he pursued a PhD in auditory neuroscience in the School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. He received his PhD in 2017 and he joined the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs at École Normale Superieure (Paris) immediately after, under the supervision of Alain de Cheveigné and Shihab Shamma. He holds the title of Assistant Professor in Intelligent Systems in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. Giovanni's scientific interests centre on understanding the brain mechanisms underlying speech comprehension. In his work, he develops data analysis methods and applies them to brain data to identify the neural processes responsible for the transformation of a sensory stimulus into its abstract meaning. Brain electrical data is measured with either non-invasive (e.g., electroencephalography) or invasive (e.g., electrocorticography, ECoG) technologies. The first aspect of his research is methodological and has produced novel experimental and analysis frameworks to investigate cortical auditory processing. The second aspect of his research is to use such novel methods to test theories on auditory perception, such as the hierarchical processing of speech and predictive processing theories (e.g. predictive coding). Finally, the third part of his work is translational and involves the identification of solutions to utilise his novel methods in applied settings, for example as tools to develop brain-computer interfaces (COCOHA project) or as objective measures for the monitoring of language development and healthy ageing.
  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   Audio-visual speech processing   COGNITIVE AGEING   COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT   COGNITIVE DECLINE   COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT   Cognitive science   Computational Linguistics   ECoG   EEG   MACHINE LEARNING   MEG   MUSIC PERCEPTION   Neural coding of complex stimuli, spatial transformations, speech perception   Perception   signal processing and machine learning   Speech Processing
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Guest editor in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Reviewer for the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference 2019
Co-ordinator of the Open Science initiative Cognition and Natural Sensory Processing (CNSP). Workshop and hackathon organiser, definition of standardisation protocols
Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Basic Basic
Italian Fluent Fluent Fluent
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Member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Member of ALBA network (The ALBA Declaration on Equity and Inclusion is a resource for concrete, positive, evidence-based actions that individuals and organizations at any level can take to promote equity and inclusivity) 2023
Amirhossein Chalehchaleh, Martin M Winchester, Giovanni M Di Liberto, Robust assessment of the cortical encoding of word-level expectations using the temporal response function, Journal of Neural Engineering, 22, (1), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Guilhem Marion, Fei Gao, Benjamin P Gold, Giovanni M Di Liberto, Shihab Shamma, IDyOMpy: A new Python-based model for the statistical analysis of musical expectations, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 415, 2025, p110347 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sara Carta, Emina Ali"kovi", Johannes Zaar, Alejandro López Valdés, Giovanni M Di Liberto, Cortical encoding of phonetic onsets of both attended and ignored speech in hearing impaired individuals, PLoS One, 19, (11), 2024, pe0308554 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Giovanni M Di Liberto, Aaron Nidiffer, Michael J Crosse, Nathaniel J Zuk, Stephanie Haro, Giorgia Cantisani, Martin M Winchester, Aoife Igoe, Ross McCrann, Satwik Chandra, Edmund C Lalor, Giacomo Baruzzo, A standardised open science framework for sharing and re-analysing neural data acquired to continuous stimuli, Neurons, Behavior, Data Analysis, and Theory, (October, 1"25), 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Keshavarzi, Mahmoud and Di Liberto, Giovanni M and Gabrielczyk, Fiona and Wilson, Angela and Macfarlane, Annabel and Goswami, Usha, Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia, Developmental science, 27, (1), 2024, pe13428 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
HjortkjÊr, Jens and Wong, Daniel D.E. and Catania, Alessandro and MÀrcher-RÞrsted, Jonatan and Ceolini, Enea and Fuglsang, SÞren and Kiselev, Ilya and Liberto, Giovanni Di and Liu, Shih-Chii and Dau, Torsten and Slaney, Malcolm and de Cheveigné, Alain, Real-time control of a hearing instrument with EEG-based attention decoding, 2024, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED  DOI
Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Adam Attaheri, Giorgia Cantisani, Richard B. Reilly, Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Sinead Rocha, Perrine Brusini & Usha Goswami, Emergence of the cortical encoding of phonetic features in the first year of life, Nature Communications, (14), 2023, Notes: [Article number: 7789], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Klimovich-Gray Anastasi, Di Liberto Giovann, Amoruso Luci, Barrena Ande, Agirre Enek, Molinaro Nicol, Increased top-down semantic processing in natural speech linked to better reading in dyslexia, NeuroImage, 273, 2023, p120072-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Carta S, Mangiacotti AMA, Valdes AL, Reilly RB, Franco F, Di Liberto GM., The impact of temporal synchronisation imprecision on TRF analyses., Journal of neuroscience methods, 385, 2023, p109765 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Tan, Sok Hui Jessica and Kalashnikova, Marina and Di Liberto, Giovanni M and Crosse, Michael J and Burnham, Denis, Seeing a Talking Face Matters: Gaze Behavior and the Auditory-Visual Speech Benefit in Adults' Cortical Tracking of Infant-directed Speech, Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 35, (11), 2023, p1741â€"1759 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Carta Sara, Alickovic Emina, Zaar Johannes, Lopez Valdes Aleiandro, Di Liberto Giovanni, Cortical over-representation of phonetic onsets of ignored speech in hearing impaired individuals, 2023, -, Notes: [Pre-Print], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Attaheri, A., Choisdealbha, Á.N., Di Liberto, G.M., Rocha, S., Brusini, P., Mead, N., Olawole-Scott, H., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Williams, I., Grey, C., Flanagan, S., Goswami, U., Delta- And theta-band cortical tracking and phase-amplitude coupling to sung speech by infants, bioRxiv, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Wong, D.D.E., Di Liberto, G.M., de Cheveigné, A., Accurate Modeling of Brain Responses to Speech, bioRxiv, 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
ADAPT "Early detection of developmental dyslexia through novel neurophysiology measurements with realistic and engaging tasks" €67,829 Q1 2025
IRC postgraduate scholarship (John O'Doherty) €110,000 Sept 2023 - Aug 2027
Special commendation - IRC Best young research of the year award 2022 2022
William Demant Foundation + SFI/CRT-AI - "Investigating the hierarchical neural mechanisms of attention switching (€165,000) Sept 2022 - Aug 2026
IRC ULYSSES Scheme, Joint project with Yves Boubenec's team, ENS Paris (€2,500) Sept 2022 - Dec 2023
Research Boost Programme, Trinity College Dublin (€22,104) 2021
William Demant Foundation Grant (supporting one MSc-by-research student), €13,383 2021
Dunhill Medical Trust Research Project Grant, PI: Prof. Fabia Franco, Middlesex University, £299,202 (Co-PI's portion: €8,576) 2021-2023
. IRC ULYSSES Scheme, "Joint prediction of audio and brain signals", €5000 2015
Irish Research Council, Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship, €96,000 2013-2017
Invited Young Lecturer - Universal Acoustical Communication Symposium, Sendai (Japan), ¥200,000 2018
Travel grant - Neuroscience Ireland, travel award to the Society for Neuroscience meeting, €300 2016
Best oral presentation award, 3rd prize - Cognitive Science Arena, Brixen (Italy) 2016
Travel grant - Guarantors of Brain, travel award to visit Dr. Rebecca Millman at York Neuroimaging Centre, University of York (UK), £350 2016
Best oral presentation award, 1st prize - Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Winter Symposium 2015
Scholarship, 20th Jelinek Summer Workshop in Speech and Language Technology, University of Washington Visiting International Student Internship Training Program. $14,500 2015
Best poster presentation award - Young Neuroscientists Symposium, Dublin. 2014
Luciano Iglesias foundation award for graduate students in computer engineering, €1,000 2013