Dr Jon Barker

Biography

Professor Jon Barker is a Professor in the Speech and Hearing Research Group of the Department of Computer Science. He obtained a BA in Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridge University in 1990 and a PHD from the University of Sheffield in 1999. He has worked at GIPSA-lab, Grenoble and IDIAP research institute in Switzerland and has had a permanent post at Sheffield since 2002. His research interests have centred around the processing of speech and music processing for hearing aids.

Current research projects

"Clarity (https://claritychallenge.org) and Cadenza (https://cadenzachallenge.org) are multidisciplinary EPSRC-funded projects in collaboration with the Universities of Salford, Nottingham, Cardiff and Leeds that are investigating machine learning algorithms for hearing aid signal processing. The projects are looking to improve the performance for speech in noisy environments, and music listening respectively. The projects are engaging the speech, hearing, music and machine learning communities through a series of open-source challenges and workshops."