Overview

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Dr. Iain McCowan is the co-founder and CTO of Notiv. He leads Notiv’s engineering and machine learning teams and sets the technical vision for the company.

Iain is a 20-year veteran of machine learning and speech technologies. Previously, Iain founded Dev-Audio which developed an innovative speech-enabled microphone array product and was acquired by Biamp Systems in 2014. Before this, Iain worked as a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO (Data61) and the IDIAP Research Institute exploring real-world applications of cutting edge natural language processing and machine learning techniques.

Iain holds a Ph.D., B Eng, and B. IT from the Queensland University of Technology. He has particular expertise in the development of multi-microphone devices, digital signal processing (DSP), speech & audio signal processing, speech-to-text (STT), and far-field speech recognition. Iain is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Science, and Engineering Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology.