Leila Eslami is an Industrial PhD candidate working jointly with Aalborg University and WS Audiology. She joined WS Audiology as part of her PhD and has a background in biomedical engineering and signal processing. She has worked on advanced signal processing methods, including adaptive beamforming and filtering techniques for ultrasound signals.

Her PhD research focuses on intention-based conversational partner detection and enhancement for hearing-aid users. The work aims to identify which speaker a hearing-aid user intends to engage with in multi-talker environments by analyzing spatial and temporal information, as well as behavioral and acoustic cues such as turn-taking patterns and voice activity dynamics. The research intersects audio signal processing, conversational interaction analysis, and probabilistic modeling, with the goal of improving communication for users in complex and real-life listening situations.