Stuart N Wrigley

BSc(Hons) PhD MIET MBCS SMIEEE MAHEP
Operations and Business Development Manager, UKRI CDT in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications

I am the Operations and Business Development Manager (BDM) for the £8 million UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications hosted in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. I have a First Class BSc(Hons) and PhD in Computer Science.

I was an ex officio Board Member of Sheffield Digital from Dec 2015 until Summer 2022.

From November 2015 until April 2019, I was the Business Development Manager for both the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

Prior to November 2015, I was a post-doctoral researcher (firstly Research Associate, then Research Fellow) for 13 years (2002 - 2015) funded by numerous EU FP projects with research interests covering low-cost sensing, citizen engagement in science, semantic search, software interface evaluation and novel approaches for improving data understanding. I also have interests in audio and speech processing, auditory perception and automatic speech recognition (my 2002 PhD modelled how attention influences the perception and understanding of sound). During my PhD and initial postdoctoral period (to 2009), I worked within the Speech and Hearing research group. During this time, I worked with Prof Thomas Hain on the creation of the world's first web-based fully functioning automatic speech recogniser (webASR) for which I wrote the web service and API. From 2009, I was a senior researcher within the Organisations, Information and Knowledge (OAK) research group. From 2014 until November 2015, I was Principle Investigator (PI) and Project Coordinator of the €170,000 Crowd4Sat (Crowdsourcing For Observations From Satellites) project which was funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) involving 6 European industrial partners.

SLT CDT: UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications (UKRI) - Centre Manager
Crowd4Sat: Crowdsourcing For Observations From Satellites (European Space Agency: €170K) - Principle Investigator (PI)
WeSenseIt: Citizen Observatory of Water (EU FP7: €6.97M) - overall project technical manager
EIDC: Energy Innovation for Deprived Communities aka Big Energy Upgrade (ERDF) - energy consumption monitoring lead
SEALS: Semantic Evaluation At Large Scale (EU FP7: €4.7M) - Work Package Leader for two work packages; coordinator of two international evaluation campaigns; Project Management Board
AMIDA: Augmented Multi-party Interaction with Distance Access (EU FP6: €13.26M) - Work Package Manager with overall responsibility for all audio, video and multimodal processing
AMI: Augmented Multi-party Interaction (EU FP6: €16.82M)
M4: MultiModal Meeting Manager (EU FP5: €2.83M)
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) project - then an agency of the UK Government's MoD, now QinetiQ
Hossein Farmy PhD Scholarship

I have not been research-active since November 2015.

S. Mazumdar, S.N. Wrigley, N. Ireson and F. Ciravegna (2018). Harnessing location-based services for effective citizen observatories. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 13, 101-108.
Gonzalez et al. (2017). Project SunbYte: solar astronomy on a budget. Astronomy and Geophysics 58(2) 2.24-2.25.
S. Mazumdar, S.N. Wrigley and F. Ciravegna (2017). Citizen science and crowdsourcing for earth observations: an analysis of stakeholder opinions on the present and future. Remote Sensing 9(1) 87-107.
S. Mazumdar, V. Lanfranchi, N. Ireson, S.N. Wrigley, C. Bagnasco, U. Wehn, R. McDonagh, M. Ferri, S. McCarthy, H. Huwald, F. Ciravegna (2016). Citizens Observatories for Effective Earth Observations: the WeSenseIt Approach. Environmental SCIENTIST Journal 25(2) 56-61.
K. Elbedweihy, S.N. Wrigley, P. Clough and F. Ciravegna (2015). An overview of semantic search evaluation initiatives. Journal of Web Semantics 30 82-105.
R. García-Castro, S.N. Wrigley, J. Heflin, H. Stuckenschmidt (2013). On a steady path to semantic technology evaluation. Journal of Web Semantics 21 1–2.
S.N. Wrigley and T. Hain (2011). Web-based automatic speech recognition service - webASR. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), Florence, Italy, 28-31 August 2011.
S.N. Wrigley and T. Hain (2011). Making an automatic speech recognition service freely available on the web. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), Florence, Italy, 28-31 August 2011.
H. Christensen, N. Ma, S.N. Wrigley and J. Barker (2009). A speech fragment approach to localising multiple speakers in reverberant environments. Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, 19-24 April 2009.
T. Hain, A. El Hannani, S.N. Wrigley and V. Wan (2008). Automatic speech recognition for scientific purposes - webASR. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2008), Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 September 2008.
S.N. Wrigley, G.J. Brown, V. Wan and S. Renals (2005). Speech and crosstalk detection in multi-channel audio. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 13(1) 84-91.
S.N. Wrigley and G.J. Brown (2004). A computational model of auditory selective attention. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Special Issue on Temporal Coding for Neural Information Processing. 15(5) 1151-1163.
S.N. Wrigley (2002). A theory and computational model of auditory selective attention. PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK. (doubled sided pdf | single sided pdf)
Supervised by Professor Guy Brown. Examined on 26 November 2002 by Professor Roy Patterson (then head of the MRC Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, University of Cambridge) and Professor Phil Green (then head of the Speech and Hearing Research Group, University of Sheffield).

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Dr. Stuart N. Wrigley BSc(Hons) PhD MIET MBCS SMIEEE MAHEP
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello
Sheffield S1 4DP
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)114 222 1880

Email: s.wrigley@sheffield.ac.uk