Professor Leslie Smith

Emeritus Professor

Computing Science Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Leslie Smith

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About me

B,.Sc. (Mathematics) Glasgow 1973, Ph.D. (Computing Science) Glasgow 1981. Lecturer Glasgow University 1980-83. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor Stirling 1984-present. Head of Department 1999-2002 and 2008-2013. Now emeritus (as of 3 October 2018), intent on spending more time on research, particularly on early auditory processing and computational neuroscience.  See the ORCID link https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3716-8013 for publications. Almost all of them are also available through my personal web page, http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~lss

Community Contribution

International Neuroinformatics Co-ordinating Facility UK representative

https://www.incf.org
International Neuroinformatics Co-ordinating Facility (INCF) is an international organisation aiming to standardise neuroscience data, and to help researchers internationally to share data and processing techniques. I was the UK node representative from 2014 to 2016

Event / Presentation

Onset-based Sound Segmentation. 9th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

Artificial general intelligence: an organism and level based position statement. The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08), March 1-3, 2008, University of Memphis
University of Memphis

http://agi-conf.org/2008/

Adaptation of barn owl localization system with spike timing dependent plasticity. IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2008. IJCNN 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). Hong Kong, 1-8 June 2008
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

http://www.ieee.org/…ml?Conf_ID=13382

The CARMEN Virtual Laboratory: Web-Based Paradigms for Collaboration in Neurophysiology. 6th International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Micro Electrode Arrays
University of Tuebingen (Eberhard Karls)

http://www.nmi1.de/meameeting2008/

Neuromorphic Systems: past, present and future. Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008, (BICS 2008)

A Novel Nonparametric Multiple Imputation Algorithm for Estimating Missing Data. ICCSDE'09: The 2009 International Conference of Computational Statistics and Data Engineering: London, U.K., 1-3 July, 2009
International Association of Engineers (IAENG)

http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2009/ICCSDE2009.html

A New Biology: A modern perspective on the challenge of closing the gap between the islands of knowledge. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops

Events, Neural Systems and Time Series. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops

Biologically-inspired neural coding of sound onset for a musical sound classification task. The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

http://www.ieee.org/…ml?Conf_ID=18284
IJCNN 2011 will include paper presentations, tutorials, workships, panels, special sessions and competitions on topics related to neural networks, including: Neural network theory and models; neural network applications; computational neuroscience; neurocognitive models; neuroengineering; neuroinformatics; neuroevolution; collective intelligence; embodied robotics; artificial life, etc.

Am I Spiking neurons?. Seminar given at Imperial College, London

Using spiking onset neurons and a recurrent neural network for musical sound classification. 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

Memory Efficient On-Line Streaming for Multichannel Spike Train Analysis. 33rd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

http://www.ieee.org/…Conf_ID%3D13666/
The annual conference of EMBS averages 2000 attendees from over 50 countries. The scope of the conference is general in nature to focus on the interdisciplinary fields of biomedical engineering. Themes included but not limited to are: Imaging, Biosignals, Biorobotics, Bioinstrumentation, Neural, Rehabilitation, Bioinformatics, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices, etc.

A novel approach combining recurrent neural network and support vector machines for time series classification. 9th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2013

http://www.it-innovations.ae/iit2013/index.html

A noise robust Arabic speech recognition system based on the echo state network. 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

http://acousticalsociety.org/meetings/providence

Spectrotemporal Gabor filters for feature detection. 167th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America

http://acousticalsociety.org/meetings/providence

A biologically inspired onset and offset speech segmentation approach. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Professional membership

Life Senior Member of the IEEE (LSMIEEE)
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Member of the Acoustical Society of America
Acoustical Society of America

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