William Ravenscroft
Senior Machine Learning Researcher at IRIS Audio Technologies
Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Ravenscroft is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in audio machine learning, speech technology and signal processing with eight years of experience bridging academic research and production systems. He holds a PhD in Speech and Language Technology from the University of Sheffield and has driven R&D across startups and industry—including roles at ConnexAI, IRIS Audio Technologies, Bose and 3M—focusing on ASR, speaker extraction and real-time speech enhancement. William has moved models from lab to low-latency deployments for customer-agent interactions and embedded platforms, combining deep theoretical knowledge with practical constraints of latency and platform diversity. His background in electronic engineering with music technology and an MSc in Mathematical Finance gives him an unusual mix of signal intuition and quantitative rigor. Known for pioneering source-separation techniques for multi-speaker ASR during internships, he continues to push applied research that directly improves real-world conversational AI.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of SheffieldMaster of Engineering - MEng (Hons), Electronic Engineering w/ Music Technology Systems, Master of Engineering - MEng (Hons), Electronic Engineering w/ Music Technology Systems at University of York
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
transformers10
speaker-diarization10
speech-to-text10
pytorch10
speech-processing10
speaker-verification10
speech-enhancement10
voice-recognition10
audio-processing10
speech-synthesis10
audio10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
speech10
speaker-recognition10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jwr1995/dc1d
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 20 pushes in 5 months
jwr1995/WHAMR_ext
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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