Wafaa Wardah

Wafaa Wardah is a Senior Research Scientist at the Quality and Usability Lab at Technische Universität Berlin. Originally from the Fiji Islands, she researches acoustics, speech and audio signal processing, human perception, and machine learning.

Her work focuses on understanding and modelling how humans perceive speech and audiovisual quality, including transformer-based approaches to perceptual quality prediction. Her research outputs contribute to ITU-T standardization efforts. She is also interested in AI-generated and AI-enhanced media and multimodal perception.

More broadly, her scientific interests lie in the fundamental principles of sound, signals, and perception, and in using computational methods to understand them. She is also curious about fundamental physics and the nature of physical reality.