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PhD Students

I work with PhD students on a range of speech and hearing related topics. If you are interested in joining the group, please feel free to get in contact.

View funded PhD opportunities for 2027 entry.

Current PhD Students

  • Samuel Toone


    Notch Noise Therapy for Tinnitus

    • With Dr Anton Krynkin / Supported by NHS and TinnitusUK

    Details to follow

  • Thomas Stolarski


    VR for Hearing Aid Algorithm Evaluation

    • With the RNID and sponsored by EPSRC

    Find out more

  • Shumin Que


    Sound Analysis for Ambulance Calls

    • With Dr Ning Ma / Supported by SYA and sponsored by EPSRC

    Find out more

  • Jack Cox


    Decomposition of Speech Embeddings

    • With sponsorship from Meta and UKRI

    Find out more

  • Robert Sutherland


    Conversation Enhancement for Hearing Devices

    • With Dr Stefan Goetze / Sponsorship from WSAudiology and UKRI

    Find out more

Recent PhD Students

  • Jack Deadman, 2023


    "Simulating Realistic Multiparty Speech Data: For The Development Of Distant Microphone ASR Systems"

    Thesis

  • Zehai Tu, 2023


    "Data-driven Speech Intelligibility Enhancement and Prediction for Hearing Aids"

    Thesis

  • Zhengjun Yu, 2022


    with Prof. Heidi Christensen

    "Continuous Speech Recognition for People with Dysarthria"

    Thesis

  • Gerardo Roa Dabike, 2022


    "Deep Learning Approaches For Automatic Sung Speech Recognition: Adapting Spoken Technologies To Sung Speech"

    Thesis