... I am fascinated by methods that give access to meaning in data and that allow machines to perform tasks that are even beyond our own abilities. This is an age of enormous opportunity, but that also puts huge responsibility on us to produce technology that does not leave people behind ...
I am a professor at the school of computer science at the University of Sheffield, UK, and a fellow of ISCA and AAIA. My main research interests are on machine learning methods applied to speech, language and audio technology. I am also a co-founder of fetch.ai which relates to my interest in agent modelling and blockchain technologies.
I am heading the Machine Intelligence for Natural Interfaces , am a member of the Speech and Hearing Research Group and the Machine Learning Research Group, the Director of the UKR AI Centre of Doctoral Traning Centre in Speech and Language Technolgoies, as well as the Liveperson Centre for Speech and Language Technology at the university of Sheffield.