Robert I. Damper
Bob Damper obtained his MSc in biophysics in 1973 and PhD in electrical
engineering in 1979, both from the University of London. He also holds
the Diploma of Imperial College, London, in electrical engineering. After
a period lecturing in electrical engineering at the University of Abertay,
he was appointed Lecturer in Electronics at the University of Southampton
in 1980, Senior Lecturer in 1989, Reader in 1998 and Professor in 2003.
He is a member of the ISIS
Research Group where he pursues his research interests in
signal and pattern processing, speech science and technology,
rehabilitation engineering, neural computation, cognitive modelling,
biologically-inspired robotics and philosophical and historical aspects
of artificial intelligence. Current teaching duties are ELEC1006
Circuit Theory, COMP1005
System Administration Tools and Techniques and COMP2039
Artificial Intelligence. He has published over 300 research
articles and reports. He was co-editor of Multimedia Technologies and
Future Applications (1994), author of the undergraduate text Introduction
to Discrete-Time Signals and Systems
(1995), and edited the collection Data-Driven Techniques in
Speech Synthesis (2001).
Prof. Damper is a Senior Member of the IEEE (USA), a Chartered Engineer
and a Chartered Physicist, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering
and Technology (previously the Institution of Electrical Engineers)
and of the Institute of Physics, a member of the Acoustical Society
of America, and a member of the International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA) since its inception. He is also a member
of the ACM
Special Interest Group on Computational
Phonology. Bob is on the Editorial Board of the International
Journal of Speech Technology, Intelligent
Decision Technologies and Information
Fusion.
Prof. Damper is active in legal work as an expert in forensic speech
analysis. He is a member of the International Association for Forensic
Phonetics and Acoustics, and is listed in the UK Register of Expert
Witnesses. Particular specialisms are transcriptions of contested
audio recordings and professional opinions on speaker identity on audio
recordings.
Email: rid@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 23 8059 4577
Fax: +44 (0) 23 8059 4498
Last updated by Bob Damper on 19 November 2010.