Iñigo Casanueva
Birth
Address
Nationality
Gender
July 4, 1987
8 Cyprus Terrace,
S6 3QH, Sheffield, UK
Spanish
Male
January 20, 2016
[email protected]
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/∼inigo/
Education
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PhD. Computer Science
University of Sheffield
2013-present
Sheffield, UK
– Ph.D. title: Personal adaptive listeners
∗ Collaborating in the development of homeService application, a personalised voice enabled
control interface for users with speech disorders.
∗ Adapting ASR and POMDP based dialogue managers to dysarthric users in a spoken
environmental control system. Adapting dialogue management models to the speaker
specific characteristics and to the ASR performance variation over usage time due to ASR
adaptation.
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MSc. Computer science and machine learning
University of the Basque Country, Informatics faculty
2011-2012
San Sebastian, Spain
– Data analysis, machine learning, Bayesian networks, neural networks, computer vision.
– Thesis: Dialogue systems based on Markov decision processes over two real tasks. Grade:
10/10
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MSc. Electronic engineering
University of the Basque Country, Science and technology faculty
2009 - 2011
Leioa, Spain
– Advanced electronics, advanced automatic control, Object oriented programming (Java),
algorithmics, computer architectures.
– Thesis: Topic change detection in parliamentary discourses. Grade: 9/10
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BSc. Electronic and electric engineering
University of the Basque Country, Polytechnic school
2005-2008
San Sebastian, Spain
– Fundamental electronics, automatic control, C programming, assembly programming,
industrial microcontroller and PLC programming.
– Thesis: Design and implementation of laser marking station. Grade: 9/10
Work experience
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Part-time researcher
University of Sheffield
2016
Sheffield, UK
– Worked for NST project continuing the research on homeService application
(http://www.natural-speech-technology.org/homeService)
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Full-time Research associate
University of Sheffield
2012
Sheffield, UK
– Worked as Marie Curie early stage researcher developing adaptive voice controlled interfaces
for users with speech disorders at SCALE project (www.scale.uni-saarland.de/cms/)
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Full-time Intern
Elster Iberconta
2008-2009
Renteria, Spain
– Design and implementation of an automated laser-marking station for water meters at Elster
Iberconta factory (http://www.elster-iberconta.com/es/)
Projects
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homeService - Natural Speech Technology (NST)
University of Sheffield
2013-present
Sheffield, UK
– homeService (http://www.natural-speech-technology.org/homeService) aims to take
state-of-the-art speech recognition and build spoken interfaces for elderly people or people
with disabilities who can not or choose not to use conventional means of interacting with
technology (such as a keyboard or a computer mouse).
– NST is an EPSRC Programme Grant with the aim of significantly advancing the
state-of-the-art in speech technology by making it more natural, approaching human levels of
reliability, adaptability and conversational richness. NST is a collaboration between the Centre
for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh, the Speech Group at
the University of Cambridge and The Speech and Hearing Research Group (SpandH),
University of Sheffield.
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Speech Communication with Adaptive LEarning (SCALE)
University of Sheffield
2012
Sheffield, UK
– SCALE (Speech Communication with Adaptive LEarning) is a Marie-Curie Initial Training
Network. The research themes are automatic speech recognition, machine learning, speech
synthesis, signal processing and human speech recognition. The members of the consortium
are IDIAP Research Institute in Martigny, Radboud University Nijmegen, RWTH Aachen,
Saarland University, University of Edinburgh, University of Sheffield, Toshiba and Nuance
Communications.
Skills
Languages
Spanish (Mother tongue); Basque (Bilingual); English (Proficient);
Programming
Python (Most experienced), C, C++, Java, Linux shell (Work experience), Matlab,
PLC, Assembly (Educational experience).
Software
Git, SVN, HTK, GPy, CURRENNT, Theano, TensorFlow, Wordpress, LATEX.
Grants & awards
• PhD Student Scholarship
2013-2015
– Three year PhD scholarship and three year department fee scholarship from the University of
Sheffield, UK.
• Nomination for SIGDial best paper award
2015
– At SIGDial 2015 for “Knowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue
management” paper.
• Nomination for ISCA best student paper award
2014
– At Interspeech 2014 for “Adaptive speech recognition and dialogue management for users with
speech disorders” paper.
• The IS09 Conference Fund travel grant
2014
– £500 travel grant for Interspeech 2014 conference
• Grade with honours in “Algorithms and data structures” course
2010
– Discount in university fee equivalent to 12 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)
Publications
• I. Casanueva, T. Hain, H. Christensen, R. Marxer and P. Green, “Knowledge transfer between
speakers for personalised dialogue management,” In Proceedings of SIGDial’15, Prague, Czech
Republic, 2015.
(pdf )
• H. Christensen, I. Casanueva, S. Cunningham, P. Green and T. Hain, “Automatic selection of
speakers for improved acoustic modelling: recognition of disordered speech with sparse data,” In
Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), Nevada, USA, 2014.
(pdf )
• I. Casanueva, H. Christensen, T. Hain, and P. Green, “Adaptive speech recognition and dialogue
management for users with speech disorders,” In Proceedings of Interspeech’14, Singapore, 2014.
(pdf )
• H. Christensen, I. Casanueva, S. Cunningham, P. Green and T. Hain, “HomeService:
Voice-enabled assistive technology in the home using cloud-based automatic speech recognition,” In
4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Grenoble,
France, 2013.
(pdf )