EVANS Nicholas | EURECOM

education

MEng (Hons) in Electronics and Computing Science, University of Wales Swansea, 1999
Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 2003
Nick Evans has defended his HDR (french appellation for "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches") in 2015

His PhD studies were sponsored by one of the world's leading mobile telecommunications providers and he has been actively involved in a number of collaborative research projects at local, national, European and international levels with SMEs, multinationals and government agencies.
His current activities in acoustic echo cancellation and speech enhancement are supported by one of the world's leading industrials in embedded mobile solutions.

Best System Award IberSpeech 2018 Albayzin Challenges - Speaker Diarization Open Condition with Patino, Jose; Delgado, Héctor; Yin, Ruiqing; Bredin, Hervé; Barras; Claude; Evans, Nicholas, ODESSA at Albayzin speaker diarization challenge 2018 (IBERSPEECH 2018)

In June 2016, he has received with his co-authors Massimiliano Todisco and Hector Delgado, the Best Paper Award for their paper "A new feature for automatic speaker verification anti-spoofing: Constant Q cepstral coefficients" (Odyssey 2016).
In Novembre 2013, he has received with his co-authors Xuran Zhao and Jean-Luc Dugelay, the Best Student Paper Award for the article "Unsupervised multi-view dimensionality reduction with application to audio-visual speaker retrieval".
He was elected to the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee in 2013.