The Centre for Speech Technology Research, The university of Edinburgh

CSTR Staff and Students

If telephoning from outside of the University of Edinburgh, prefix telephone numbers with +44 131 6.

Staff

Name Position Email Telephone
Simon King Director of CSTR, Professor of Speech Processing 51 1725
Steve Renals Director of ILCC,Professor of Speech Technology 50 4589
Hiroshi Shimodaira Lecturer 51 3279
Junichi Yamagishi EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow 51 3284
 
Matthew Aylett Royal Society Industry Fellow 51 3284
Peter Bell Research Fellow 51 3284
Atef Ben Youssef Research Fellow 51 5654
Rob Clark Research Fellow 51 3174
Arnab Ghoshal Research Fellow 51 5654
Jonathan Kilgour Research Fellow 50 4450
Catherine Lai Research Fellow 50 2694
Mike Lincoln Research Fellow 51 5636
Heng Lu Research Fellow 51 5654
Cassie Mayo Research Fellow 51 1767
Fergus McInnes Research Fellow 51 5624
Korin Richmond Research Fellow 51 1769
Christophe Veaux Research Fellow 50 2694
Mirjam Wester Research Fellow 51 5633
Maria Wolters Research Fellow 51 3283

PhD students

Name Position Email Telephone
Sebastian Andersson Marie Curie Fellow 50 6893
Michael Berger PhD Student 51 1768
David Braude PhD Student 51 1770
Karl Isaac PhD Student 51 1770
Liang Lu Marie Curie Fellow 45 8313
Mark Sinclair PhD Student 51 1770
Pawel Swietojanski PhD Student 50 6893
Martin I. Tietze Marie Curie Fellow 50 6893
Benigno Uría PhD Student 50 4431
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao Marie Curie Fellow 51 1768
Oliver Watts PhD Student 51 1768
Erich Zwyssig PhD Student 50 4415

Associate members

Name Position Email Telephone
Jean Carletta Senior Research Fellow 50 4438
Vasilis Karaiskos Research Fellow 50 4588
Johanna Moore Professor 51 1366
Mark Steedman Professor of Cognitive Science 50 4631

External members

Name Position Email Telephone
Gregor Hofer CEO (Speech Graphics)
Steve Isard Honorary Fellow
Jim Scobbie Honorary Fellow; Professor of Speech Science (Queen Margaret University)

Visitors

Name Position Email Telephone
Martin Cooke Ikerbasque Professor (Basque Foundation for Science)
Luisa Garcia Lecumberri Associate Professor (University of the Basque Country)

Support staff

Name Position Email Telephone
Caroline Hastings Portfolio Manager 51 3176
Maria MacKenzie Portfolio Manager 51 3176
Avril Heron Admin Office Supervisor 50 4434
Nicola Drago Ferrante Administration Secretary 50 4627
Claire Edminson Administration Secretary 50 4446
Julie Laidlaw Administration Secretary 50 4629