Dr. Cornelius Glackin graduated from the University of Ulster, School of Computing & Intelligent Systems with a MSc in Computing & Intelligent Systems in 2004. Cornelius completed a PhD concerning Spiking Neural Network research at the University of Ulster in 2009. After six years post-doctoral research experience working at the University of Ulster and the University of Hertfordshire, he then moved to industry. Cornelius is currently employed as a Research Scientist at Intelligent Voice Ltd working on machine learning approaches to signal processing, language modelling, speech recognition, diarization and natural language understanding.