Research Associate in Spoken Language Processing
Academic Division: Information Engineering
Research group: Machine Intelligence
Telephone: +44 1223 7 65152
Email: sb2549@cam.ac.uk
Research interests
I am a Research Associate at Cambridge University’s Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA) and the Machine Intelligence Lab (Department of Engineering), where I work on the intersection of AI, speech, and natural language processing for education.
I completed my PhD at the University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, focusing on the automatic assessment of L2 spoken English. My current research mostly focuses on learner-oriented feedback, fine-grained assessment of language proficiency, and spoken grammatical error correction.
I have presented my work at leading international conferences, including Interspeech, ICASSP, SLT, SLaTE, BEA, COLING, and LREC. In 2023, my co-authors and I received the SLaTE Best Paper Award, and in 2024 my PhD thesis was a finalist for the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award.
Alongside my academic career, I have worked as a musician as well as a secondary school teacher.
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