Biography
Steve Renals is director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) and professor of Speech Technology in the School of Informatics, at the University of Edinburgh. He received a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield in 1986, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1987, and a PhD in Speech Recognition and Neural Networks, also from Edinburgh, in 1990. From 1991-92 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, and was then an EPSRC postdoctoral fellow in Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1992-94). From 1994-2003 he was a lecturer, then reader, in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, moving to Edinburgh in 2003.
He has over 150 publications (Google Scholar h-index 34) in speech and language processing, and has led several large projects in the field, including the AMI and AMIDA Integrated Projects. He is co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. He is member of the ISCA Advisory Council, and is an advisory board member for the Scottish Enterprise Technology Advisory Group on Informatics and Computing, the Swiss NCCR IM2, the EU MULTISAUND project, and the ACM ICMI-MLMI conference.