Guest speakers
In addition to the various seminar series run by the Speech and Hearing research group, the Natural Language Processing research group, and our host department, the CDT runs two seminar series focused on Industrial R&D and Entrepreneurship and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as well as organising keynote talks at our Annual Conference (2021, 2022).
Our recent talks have included:
Professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Director of the Statistical Speech and Technology Group, University of Illinois, USA
Child-rearing families, language families, and the support for people with disabilities: Thoughts about what it means to be human
Dr Emmanuel Vincent
Senior Research Scientist & Head of Science, Inria Nancy - Grand Est
Speech anonymization
Dr Duc Le
Research Scientist Manager at Meta AI Speech, USA
Automatic Speech Recognition Research at Meta
Dr Bhuvana Ramabhadran
Google, USA
Large Scale Self/Semi-Supervised Learning for Speech Recognition
Professor Emine Yilmaz
Professor and Turing Fellow, University College London UK and Amazon Scholar for Amazon, UK
Research Challenges in Devising the Next Generation Information Retrieval and Access Systems
Professor Laurence Brooks
Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK
The Ethical and Human Rights Implications of AI
Dr Dirk Hovy
Associate Professor, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
More than words – Integrating social factors into NLP
Jesse Shemen
Co-founder and CEO, Papercup
Startups, tech giants, or academia? How to decide your career path
Dr Peter Waggett
Director of Research, IBM UK
IBM Research - Our Strategic Focus in 2022
Therése Svensson
Data science and AI ethics solution specialist, IBM
Trustworthy AI put into action
Yvonne Soh
Co-founder and CEO, NoodleFactory
The practical dilemma, tech vs business in AI startups
Alex Chan
CEO, Babbobox
Lies, damned lies and AI. But what are you doing to change the world? Views of an Asian perspective.
Dr Steve Beet
Principal R&D engineer, Aculab
Answering machine detection – AI R&D in a commercial environment
Dr Catherine Breslin
Founder, Kingfisher Labs
Voice technology in industry
Dr Jason Baldridge
Research scientist, Google
Substantiating words
Alan Nichol
Co-founder, Rasa Technologies
What do developers need to build great conversational AI?
Professor Jochen Leidner
Director of research, Refinitiv, UK
NLP and ML applications for fun and profit
Professor Susan M Fitzmaurice
Vice President and Head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sheffield, UK
Language and Speech Research at Sheffield: transdisciplinary approaches and perspectives
Professor Milica Gašić
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Towards dynamic dialogue models
Professor Mark Sanderson
RMIT University, Australia
Creating a Conversational Search System
Emilio Monti
Amazon, UK
Natural Language Understanding as Machine Translation
Dr Giuseppe 'Pino' Di Fabbrizio
VUI Inc., USA
Conversational agents for e-commerce