David Pearce

Background

About David Pearce

An experienced industry R&D expert with a proven track record of innovation and managing leading edge technology projects. Specific expertise in state-of-the-art “traditional” and deep learning algorithms applied to speech & audio (e.g. for speech recognition, speaker ID, voice and speech preprocessing for noise reduction, acoustic context awareness) and user interfaces. A self-starter who takes the initiative to listen, innovate, communicate and deliver practical solutions both by personal contributions and by working with people to bring the best out of teams. Extensive project leadership and management expertise throughout the project lifecycle from strategy and initiation to planning and delivery. Areas of Expertise Technical: Speech signal processing, speech recognition algorithms, statistical pattern recognition, machine/deep learning, image processing, microphone arrays, noise suppression, user interface design and user trials, multimodal user interface, software development in C on Unix platforms. Author of 36 published papers. Innovation leadership: Setting strategic R&D and product feature direction. Entrepreneurial drive taking projects through from conception to product impact. Inventor of 32 patents. Project management and communications: Extensive project management experience of projects covering range of different sizes (mostly 1 to 10 person years effort). Experienced in working effectively in an international organization with many distributed locations and with people across the spectrum of management responsibility. Chairman of standards working group in ETSI and 3GPP coordinating and collaborating to produce 4 international telecommunications standards for distributed speech recognition.