EVANS Nicholas | EURECOM

Etudes

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.

NeurIPS 2023 Scholar Award for his paper “StressID: a multimodal dataset for stress identification“ (NeurIPS 2023)
Best Paper Award for this paper “On The Potential of Jointly-Optimised Solutions to Spoofing Attack Detection and Automatic Speaker Verification“ (IBERSPEECH 2022)
Best System Award IberSpeech 2018 Albayzin Challenges - Speaker Diarization Open Condition (ODESSA at Albayzin speaker diarization challenge 2018 - IBERSPEECH 2018)
Best Paper Award for the article "Constant Q cepstral coefficients: A spoofing countermeasure for automatic Speaker verification" (Computer Speech & Language, 20 February 2017)
Best Paper Award for the paper “A new feature for automatic speaker verification anti-spoofing: Constant Q cepstral coefficients” (ODYSSEY 2016).
Student Paper Award for the article “Unsupervised multi-view dimensionality reduction with application to audio-visual speaker retrieval”(WIFS 2013).
He was elected to the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee in 2013.