Center for Robust Speech Systems

Finnian Kelly, PhD

Biographical Sketch

Finnian Kelly was born in Dublin, Ireland, where he received a B.A., B.A.I. degree in Electronic & Computer Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 2009. He subsequently completed a Ph.D. in the Sigmedia research group in Trinity College Dublin in 2013. In October 2014 he joined the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS) at the University of Texas at Dallas as a research associate, under the guidance of Prof. John Hansen. His research interests are: speaker recognition, particularly with regard to the modelling and analysis of speaker traits such as age, gender and accent; forensic speaker recognition; speech perception.

Publications @ CRSS

• Finnian Kelly, Rahim Saeidi, Naomi Harte and David van Leeuwen: "Effect of long-term ageing on i-vector speaker recognition", in InterSpeech 2014, Singpore
• Finnian Kelly, Andrzej Drygajlo and Naomi Harte: "Speaker verification in score-ageing-quality classification space", Computer Speech and Language 27(5):1068-1084, 2013
• Finnian Kelly, Niko Brummer and Naomi Harte: "Eigenageing Compensation for Speaker Verification", in InterSpeech 2013, Portland OR
• Finnian Kelly and Naomi Harte: "Auditory detectability of vocal ageing and its effect on forensic automatic speaker recognition", in InterSpeech 2013, Portland OR

Full list of publications on Google Scholar

Personnel

• Prof. John H.L. Hansen
• Prof. Yang Liu
• Prof. Philip Loizou
• Prof. Abhijeet Sangwan
• Prof. Hynek Boril
• Prof. Oldooz Hazrati
• Dr. Finnian Kelly
• Chengzhu Yu
• Lakshmish Kaushik
• Seyedmahdad (Matt) Mirsamadi
• Abhinav Misra
• Qian Zhang
• Yang ZhengShivesh Ranjan
• Chunlei Zhang
• Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad
• Harishchandra Dubey
• Ahmet Bulut
• Shahram Ghorbani
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