IEEE Summer School
On

Computational Intelligence: Theory and Application

Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna

12-14 July 2023

Prof. Jennifer Williams

Dr. Jennifer Williams is an Assistant Professor at University of Southampton, and joined the Agents, Interaction, and Complexity (AIC) group there in 2022. She received her PhD in Data Science from the University of Edinburgh, where she specialised in representation learning for speech signal disentanglement and applied it to a variety of domains including deepfake detection, speech synthesis, and privacy. She is serving a 2-year term as Chair of the special interest group on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication for the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA SPSC-SIG). She is also PI for the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub Agile project on Trustworthy Audio, the TAME Pain project, and Perceptions of Trust for Voice Anonymization Systems - leading international interdisciplinary teams of researchers and multiple industry advisors. Her research also includes comfort-resource trade-offs and energy management in smart buildings. She holds an additional part-time role in industry as a Senior Speech Scientist at MyVoice AI, a London-based start-up that specialises in voice identity biometrics on ultra-low power devices. She is a member of IEEE, ISCA, ACM, and has served various roles with reviewing and organizing international conferences and workshops.