Education
• MEng (Hons) in Electronics and Computing Science, University of Wales Swansea, 1999
• PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 2003

Teaching
From 2002-06 Nicholas Evans was a lecturer at the University of Wales Swansea where he taught courses in Communications. In 2006 he moved to Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon at the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse where he taught courses in Image Processing and Digital Communications. He moved to EURECOM in October 2007 where he teaches courses in Mathematics and Speech Processing.

Industrial experience
His PhD studies were sponsored by one 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.

Major research interest

His current research interests include speaker diarization, speakerrecognition, biometrics, and acoustic echo cancellation. Over recent years he has participated, with notable success, in the internationally competitive Rich Transcription Evaluations in speaker diarization that are administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST) in the US.

Visibility, membership, committee
He is a member of the IEEE and ISCA and has served as a reviewer for several prestigious Journals (e.g. IEEE TSALP, Elsevier CSL, IEEE Signal Processing Letters) and international conferences (e.g. IEEE ICASSP, ACM Multimedia, EUSIPCO).