Prof. Michael Wagner PhD FIEAust SMIEEE Professor of Computing, University of Canberra Director, Human-Computer Communication Laboratory (HCC Lab)

I have been Professor of Computing at the University of Canberra since 1996, specialising in biometrics (voice, face, finger recognition, multibiometric fusion) and computer security. I was the Head of the then School of Computing from 1996 to 2001, Head of the Discipline of Software Engineering from 2005 to 2011 and the Director of the National Centre for Biometric Studies from 2006 to 2010. Within the information technology and engineering courses offered by the Faculty, I currently teach subjects in biometric person authentication and computer security as well as programming in Java and C# ("C sharp"). My research interests and current projects are in the areas of speech and speaker recognition; face recognition; speaker characteristics and emotion detection; language, dialect and accent recognition; and forensic speaker recognition. I am also a licensed radio amateur (VK1XYZ) with an interest in narrow-band speech coding and transmission.

E michael.wagner@canberra.edu.au
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Public Key: My PGP/GPG public key is linked here.

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Faculty of ISE University of Canberra ACT 2601 Australia	Room 11C35, Building 11 University of Canberra 1 Kirinari Street Bruce ACT 2617 Australia

Academic Record

• Study at Universität Münster (WWU, 1967-1970), Universität München (LMU, 1970-1973), Australian National University (ANU, 1974-1978)
• Diplomphysiker (LMU, 1973) with a thesis on "Computer Simulation of Particle Trajectories in Supraconducting Magnets" (in German).
• PhD in Computer Science (ANU, 1979) with a thesis on "Application of a Learning Technique for the Identification of Speaker Characteristics in Continuous Speech".

List of Publications

My list of publications is linked here. Progressively, links to full-text versions of of papers are being added. (in progress)

List of Available Master and PhD Projects

A list of currently available projects for prospective higher-degree-by-research students is linked here.

Current Research Projects

• Australian Audiovisual Speech Corpus, ARC Infrastructure Grant (2010)
• From Talking Head to Thinking Head, ARC Thinking Systems Grant (2006-2011)
• Speaker Characteristics and Emotion Detection
• Speaker, Language, Dialect and Accent Recognition
• Fuzzy methods in speech and speaker recognition
• Face-Voice Recognition and Liveness Assurance
• Forensic Speaker Recognition
• Narrow-band Speech Coding and Transmission

Previous Research Projects

• Neural network application in speaker recognition (PhD thesis 1974-1978, postdoc 1979-1981)
• Speech synthesis (1974-1978)
• Automatic segmentation and labelling of speech signals (1979-1981)
• Isolated word recognition of spoken Chinese syllables (1981-1986)
• Spoken language output systems in an industrial computer maintenance environment (Nixdorf, 1983-1984)
• Use of prosodic information in automatic speech recognition (1986-1989)

Professional Organisations

• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) and Fellow, Engineers Australia (IEAust)
• Member of the Board of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, 1999-2007)
• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Foundation President of Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA, 1988-1992)
• Chair of the ASSTA National Spoken Language Database Committee
• Member of the ASSTA Forensic Speaker Recognition Committee
• Member of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Audio-Visual Speech Processing
• Member of the Steering Committee of the ARC Network on Human Communication Science (HCSnet)
• Member of the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA)

Previous Positions

• Director, Research Institute of Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra (2002-2003)
• Head of the School of Computing, University of Canberra (1996-2001)
• Senior Fellow, Dept of Computer Science, Australian National University (1996)
• Principal Research Scientist, TRUST Project, Australian National University (1993-1996)
• Senior Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science, University of NSW/ADFA (1986-1993)
• Senior Lecturer, Dept of Computing Science, University of Wollongong (1984-1986)
• Research Scientist, Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn (1983-1984)
• Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (1981-1983)
• Postdoctoral Fellow (Wiss. Ang.), Lehrstuhl für Datenverarbeitung, TU München (1979-1981)
• Research Assistant in Nuclear Physics, Universität München & ETH Zürich (1973-1974)
• Tutor in Mathematics and Computer Operator, Universität Münster (1967-1970)

Visiting Positions

• Visiting Professor, Dept of Human Language Technology, I²R, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Nov-Dec 2009)
• Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, Université d'Avignon (Sep-Nov 2009)
• Visiting Professor, Cognitive Systems Lab, Institute of Anthropomatics, Universität Karlsruhe (Jul-Sep 2009)
• Visiting Professor, Quality & Usability Lab, Deutsche Telekom Labs, Technische Universität Berlin (Jan-Jul 2009)
• Visiting Professor, Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion, TU München (2004)
• Visiting Professor, Computer Sciences Lab, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University (2003-2004)
• Visiting Scientist, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University (2003-2004)

Other Professional Activities

• Australian Law Reform Commission Adviser on the Review of the Privacy Act 1988 (2006-2008)
• ACT Government Information Technology Advisory Board (1996-2000)
• ACT Government Digital Divide Task Force (2001)
• Software Engineering Australia (ACT) Board (1996-2001)

Teaching Experience

• Software Engineering Methodology and Programming (C++, C#, C, Java, Ada, Modula, Pascal, Algol, Fortran, LISP)
• Biometric Authentication (Voice, Face, Iris, Finger, etc)
• Cryptography and Computer and Network Security
• Speech Technology and Signal Processing