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AI Researcher & Technology Leader
Cambridge, UK
AI researcher and technology leader with a track record of turning fundamental research into products used by millions. Currently GenAI Research Director at NatWest Group, building the Chief AI Research Office and leading work on Conversational AI for banking — spanning text, audio, and embodied intelligence. Previously Director of Research and Head of On-Device AI at Samsung AI Center, Cambridge, shipping generative AI, ASR, and audio intelligence features across the Samsung Galaxy smartphone lineup.
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Career
Over 12 years leading AI research and deploying products to millions of users.
NatWest Group
Edinburgh / London / Cambridge, UK
Samsung AI Center
Cambridge, UK
Nokia Bell Labs
Cambridge, UK
Aalto University
Espoo, Finland
Academic Background
PhD in Computer Science
University of Helsinki · Helsinki, Finland
Thesis: "Continuous Context Inference on Mobile Platforms"
MSc in Computer Science
University of Helsinki · Helsinki, Finland
Thesis: "Place Identification : A Comparative Study"
B. Tech. in Compuer Science and Engineering
Institue of Engineering and Management (IEM), WBUT · Kolkata, India
Top 5% of the graduating class
Deployed AI
Selected AI systems taken from research to production at scale.
Building the Chief AI Research Office at NatWest Group — LLM-based conversational AI covering text, audio, and embodied intelligence for enterprise banking services.
Single-step 4× super-resolution model running entirely on-device as part of the Samsung Gallery. Deployed on the Galaxy S25 AI-phone series.
Diffusion-based on-device personalised wallpaper generation that adapts images to weather and time of day. Shipped in Galaxy S24, Flip-6, and Fold-6.
Speech recognition system that isolates and clarifies human voices in noisy environments. Deployed on over 10 million Samsung smartphones.
Error-correcting and efficient deep neural network for the under-display camera, improving image quality on Samsung Galaxy Fold-5 smartphones.
Pioneered an approach for cloud-scale DNN training on limited IoT platforms supporting variable precision, sparse representations, and pruning.
Academia
59 papers at premier ML, systems, and UbiComp venues. h-index: 27 · Citations: 5,600+
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2026
HierarchicalPrune: Position-aware Compression for Large-Scale Diffusion Models
2025
Upcycling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Multi-Task Capabilities
EDiT: Efficient Diffusion Transformers with Linear Compressed Attention
Linear Time Complexity Conformers with SummaryMixing for Streaming Speech Recognition
Evaluation of LLMs in Speech is Often Flawed: Test Set Contamination in LLMs for Speech Recognition
Robust Unsupervised Adaptation of a Speech Recogniser Using Entropy Minimisation and Speaker Codes
Efficient High-Resolution Image Editing with Hallucination-Aware Loss and Adaptive Tiling
FraQAT: Quantization Aware Training with Fractional Bits
Benchmarking Rotary Position Embeddings for Automatic Speech Recognition
2024
MobileQuant: Mobile-Friendly Quantization for On-Device Language Models
SummaryMixing: A Linear-Complexity Alternative to Self-Attention for Speech Recognition and Understanding
Linear-Complexity Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Processing
2023
On the (In)efficiency of Acoustic Feature Extractors for Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning
Real-Time Personalised Speech Enhancement Transformers with Dynamic Cross-attended Speaker Representations
Resource Efficient Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Recognition
Fast Inference Through the Reuse of Attention Maps in Diffusion Models
2022
Conditioning Sequence-to-Sequence Networks with Learned Activations
Cross-Attention is All You Need: Real-Time Streaming Transformers for Personalised Speech Enhancement
2021
NAS-Bench-ASR: Reproducible Neural Architecture Search for Speech Recognition
Defensive Tensorization: Randomized Tensor Parametrization for Robust Neural Networks
2020
Countering Acoustic Adversarial Attacks in Microphone-Equipped Smart Home Devices
Augmenting Conversational Agents with Ambient Acoustic Contexts
Dynamic Distributed Edge Resource Provisioning via Online Learning across Timescales
Iterative Compression of End-to-End ASR Model using AutoML
Bunched LPCNet: Vocoder for Low-Cost Neural Text-to-Speech Systems
Learning to Listen On-Device: Present and Future Perspectives of On-Device ASR
2019
MobiSR: Efficient On-Device Super-Resolution through Heterogeneous Mobile Processors
AudiDoS: Real-Time Denial-of-Service Adversarial Attacks on Deep Audio Models
2018
Multimodal Deep Learning for Activity and Context Recognition
Deterministic Binary Filters for Convolutional Neural Networks
Using Deep Data Augmentation Training to Address Software and Hardware Heterogeneities in Wearable and Smartphone Sensing
Cross-modal Recurrent Models for Weight Objective Prediction from Multimodal Time-series Data
On-the-Fly Deterministic Binary Filters for Memory Efficient Keyword Spotting on Embedded Devices
Monitoring Daily Activities of Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Connected Health Devices
2017
DeepEye: Resource Efficient Local Execution of Multiple Deep Vision Models using Wearable Commodity Hardware
Squeezing Deep Learning into Mobile and Embedded Devices
Low-resource Multi-task Audio Sensing via Shared Deep Neural Network Representations
Scaling Health Analytics to Millions Without Compromising Privacy using Deep Distributed Behavior Models
2016
Sparsification and Separation of Deep Learning Layers for Constrained Resource Inference on Wearables
DeepX: A Software Accelerator for Low-Power Deep Learning Inference on Mobile Devices
From Smart to Deep: Robust Activity Recognition on Smartwatches using Deep Learning
Towards Multimodal Deep Learning for Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices
DXTK: Enabling Resource-Efficient Deep Learning on Mobile and Embedded Devices
Activity Recognition on Smart Devices: Dealing with Diversity in the Wild
2015
Smart Devices are Different: Assessing and Mitigating Mobile Sensing Heterogeneities for Activity Recognition
An Early Resource Characterization of Deep Learning on Wearables, Smartphones and IoT Devices
LookAhead: Augmenting Crowdsourced Website Reputation Systems with Predictive Modeling
Checksum Gestures: Continuous Gestures as an Out-of-Band Channel for Secure Pairing
2014
Using Unlabeled Data in a Sparse-Coding Framework for Human Activity Recognition
Robust and Energy-Efficient Trajectory Tracking for Mobile Devices
The Company You Keep: Mobile Malware Infection Rates and Inexpensive Risk Indicators
2013
Gaussian Process-Based Predictive Modeling for Bus Ridership
Automatic Correction of Annotation Boundaries in Activity Datasets by Class Separation Maximization
2011
Energy-Efficient Trajectory Tracking for Mobile Devices
Influence of Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions on User Attention in Indoor Smart Spaces
2010
A Grid-Based Algorithm for On-Device GSM Positioning
2008
Identifying Meaningful Places: The Non-Parametric Way
Markov Property of Continuous Dislocation Band Propagation
2006
A Survey on Different Video Watermarking Techniques and Comparative Analysis with H.264/AVC
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