Media & Honors

Press (selected)

Animal communication work

Relevant papers:

• Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference
• Vowels and Diphthongs in Sperm Whales

Selected coverage:

• National Geographic — Exclusive: Sperm whale speech has human-like “vowels” (Nov 12, 2025)

• The Economist — Sperm whales communicate with vowels (Nov 12, 2025)

• Nature (News Feature) — AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them? (Sep 17, 2025)

• The New Yorker — Talk to Me: Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species? (Sep 4, 2023)

• The Washington Post — Scientists are starting to decode what sperm whales are saying. (May 7, 2024)

• SFGATE — Scientists hail breakthrough in decoding whale communication (Nov 17, 2025)

• The New Scientist - We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first? (Aug 25, 2025)

More coverage:

• Project CETI — News feed
• Gašper Beguš (PI) — Press page

Awards & Honors (selected)

• Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award nominee (2026)
• NeurIPS Scholar Award (2025)
• Rackham Conference Travel Grant (2025)