Professor Guy Brown
BSc(Hons), PhD, MEd
School of Computer Science
Professor of Computer Science
Member of the Speech and Hearing (SpandH) research group


+44 114 222 1821
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School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Professor Brown obtained a BSc (Hons) Applied Science from 91Ö±²¥ City Polytechnic in 1984 and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of 91Ö±²¥ in 1992. He was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Computer Science, University of 91Ö±²¥ in 1992.
He also obtained the MEd in Teaching and Learning from the University of 91Ö±²¥ in 1997. He has held visiting appointments at LIMSI-CNRS (France), Ohio State University (USA), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) and ATR (Japan).
He was appointed to a Chair of Computer Science in 2013. Professor Brown was Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2015 to 2023.
- Research interests
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Professor Brown's main research interest is Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (CASA), which aims to build machine systems that mimic the ability of human listeners to segregate complex mixtures of sound.
He also has interests in noise-robust and reverberation-robust automatic speech recognition, models of auditory function in normal and impaired hearing, binaural modelling and the phonetics of overlapping speech. A recent interest is the application of CASA technology in mobile robot platforms.
He is the co-editor (with DeLiang Wang) of Computational auditory scene analysis: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications (IEEE Press/Wiley-Interscience).
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Research grants
- Teaching computer science and music through live coding, Research England, 07/2023 - 02/2024, £50,642, as Co-PI
- SOMNUS: Sleep disOrder MoNitoring by Unobtrusive Sensors, Innovate UK, 07/2021 - 11/2023, £120,228, as PI
- Monitoring sleep disordered breathing of long-Covid patients at home using acoustic AI Technology, Research England, 01/2022 - 07/2022, £71,222, as Co-PI
- Making Elektra, Research England, 02/2021 - 04/2021, £6,236, as PI
- Brahms: Breathing Resistance Assessment via Home Monitoring of Sleep, Innovate UK, 06/2019 - 02/2021, £109,600, as PI
- MAI: Musical Artificial Intelligence, HEFCE, 02/2019 - 05/2020, £53,408, as PI
- Insitute of Coding, HEFCE, 11/2017 - 03/2020, £957,000, as Co-PI
- Studentship, Passion 4 Life, 10/2017 - 09/2020, as PI
- Passion for Life, InnovateUK, 04/2015 - 06/2017, £149,280, as PI
- Meeting the challenge of simultaneous talk for cochlear implant users, AHRC, 03/2014 - 03/2015, £69,339, as Co-PI
- , EC - FP7, 12/2013 - 11/2016, £267,134, as PI
- Automatic Testing of Natural User Interfaces, Microsoft Research Ltd., 06/2013 - 12/2017, £15,625, as Co-PI
- A computational model of speech recognition in hearing impaired listeners based on missing feature theory, RNID, 10/2007 - 09/2010, £68,951, as PI
- Phonetic design of overlapping speech in talk-in-interaction: A cross-linguistic study, AHRC, 01/2009 - 06/2012, £169,652, as Co-PI
- Perceptual constancy in real-room listening by humans and machines, EPSRC, 10/2008 - 04/2012, £121,515, as PI
- , EC FP6, 05/2007 - 04/2011, £168,923, as PI
- Studentship, QINETIQ, 10/2004 - 09/2007, £38,427, as PI
- Studentship, Defence and Science Technology Laboratory, 10/2000 - 09/2003, £4,200, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of the research group
- Recipient of a University of 91Ö±²¥ Senate Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching, 2014.
- Recipient (with Dr Gordon Fraser) of a Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award in 2013.
- Guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing special issue on blind signal processing for speech and audio applications, 2007.