Dr Nikolay Gaubitch is a Director of Research at Pindrop where he leads the development of algorithms for future speech security technologies with the most recent focus on speech liveness determination including the detection of deepfakes, pitch-shifted voices and presentation attacs. In addition, he advises clients pre and post installation on the levels and types of phone fraud and he provides commentary on what is happening within the world of voice fraud. Nikolay received a Ph.D. in acoustic signal processing from Imperial College London in 2007. Between 2007 and 2012, he was a member of staff at Imperial College London where he was managing the Centre for Law Enforcement Audio Research (CLEAR). Between 2012 and 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Signal and Information Processing Laboratory (SIPLab) at Delft University of Technology where he worked on ad-hoc microphone arrays for speech enhancement in collaboration with Google. He is the co-author of more than 60 scientific publications and the co-author of the book “Speech Dereverberation”.
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