Research Associate at IRCAM, on project VIVOS, working on expressive speech synthesis for use in T2S for computer animation and voice adaptation for possible use in the entertainment industry (games and films).http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/vivos

• 1992   PhD: Doctorate of the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble, "An information-theoretical study of speech processing in the peripheral auditory system and cochlear nucleus: application to the recognition of French voiced stop consonants" (grade "Tres honorable, avec felicitations").
• 1988   B.A. Hons. in mathematics (grade: 2-1)
• 1979   RIBA Part 1 (BA) architecture
• 1973   A level Maths (1), further maths (1), special maths (1), physics (2)
• 1973   Driving licence, car and motorbike

English (native), French(good), Spanish (good)

C (19 years), C++(3 years), Java (6 months), Pascal, Fortran, Linux and Windows operation systems.

• Expressive speech synthesis
• Natural language understanding
  
• Speaker verification & identification
• Computer speech recognition
• Machine learning (including Hidden Markov models, neural networks, Bayesian networks)
• Neurocomputing applications
• Probability and information theory

• Philosphy of mind & neural modelling
• Fitness (including football, skiing, jogging, swimming, squash, badminton, table-tennis, salsa)
• Painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, music (ex guitarist in flamenco group)

• Programming for real-time biometrics based user authentication on PDA (C++ & Java) (combining voice, face and signature)
  
• Programming state of the art and novel methods for speaker and speech recognition (C/C++)
  
• Applied mathematics (including differential calculus, linear algebra, information theory, graph theory, operations research, statistical analysis, machine learning, signal processing)
• HMMs, neural networks & Bayesian networks for speech recognition, speaker recognition and time series prediction (21 years), 2D computer graphics for map and image processing (5 yrs), 3D computer graphics for engineering (1  yr).

• 2004-2006.5

• 1998-2002
Research Scientist, Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive (IDIAP), Martigny, Switzerland.

Created mathematical model for all-combinations multi-band and multi-stream processing.

Also contributed to other theoretical developments and implementation of novel techniques for noise robust ASR. New techniques were developed in the areas of the multi-band, multi-stream and missing-data processing. Work was within the European Commission projects MULTICHAN, COST249, SPHEAR and RESPITE. 2 journal publications. 14 conference publications.

• 1995-98
Research associate, Speech and Hearing Research Group, Sheffield University, Dept. of Computer Science.

• 1993-95
  Research Associate, GTH (Speech Technology Group), ETSI de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.

Some work on reducing the computational complexity for a model for simulating the behaviour of small groups of neurons. Applied auditory model for onset detection to phoneme transition detection in ASR system. 2 conference publications.

Created system for speech recognition using only the fraction of speech data which occurs at phoneme transitions. This was based on a new technique for phoneme transition detection which was developed during my PhD.

1995  Chairperson, session MOpm2E "Auditory models", Eurospeech '95.

1995  Member of PhD jury for Sr. Manuel Leandro, July 1995, ETSIT, UPM, Madrid.

• 1989-93 Research assistant, European project SC1.0044.C(H) "Investigation of automatic speech recognition based on a physiological model of the auditory system", ICP (Institut de la Communication Parlée), INPG, Grenoble, France.

• 1984-89
  Programmer, Laser-Scan Laboratories Ltd., Cambridge, UK.

• 1983-84
  Research assistant, computer aided engineering, Polytechnic of Central London, UK.