Dr. Mark Elshaw

Dr. Mark Elshaw has been a Researcher for 15 years in three different research groups: The Hybrid Intelligent Systems Group (University of Sunderland), the Speech and Hearing Group (Sheffield University) and Intelligent Computation Group (Coventry University). He has worked on and been part of the successful management team for UK and EU funded projects, and disseminated research findings via 30+ peer reviews publications, outreach events and numerous project reports. He has also edited 3 computational neuroscience books, organised conferences and seminars, helped in the creation of successful funding proposals, and is reviewer for various conferences and journals. He was part of the team who won the British Computer Society intelligent machine prize for a bio-inspired robot.

• Tickle, A.J., Raghu, S., and Elshaw, M. (2013) ‘Emotional Recognition from the Speech Signal for a Virtual Education Agent’. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol. 450, ‘Sensor and Applications Conference’. Held 16-18 September 2013 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. IOP Publishing, 012053.
• Traista, A., and Elshaw, M. (2012) ‘A Hybrid Neural Emotion Recogniser for Human-Robotic Agent Interaction’. In Jayne, C., Yue, S., and Iliadis, L.S. (eds.) Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, ‘13th Engineering Applications of Neural Network Conference (EANN2012)’. Held 20-23 September, London, UK.  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 353-362.
• Elshaw, M., Moore, R.K., and Klein, M. (2010) ‘An Attention-Gating Recurrent Working Memory Architecture for Emergent Speech Representation’. Connection Science 22 (2), 157-175.
• Elshaw, M., Moore, R.K., and Klein, M. (2010) ‘Hierarchical Recurrent Self-Organising Memory (H-RSOM) Architecture for an Emergent Speech Representation towards Robot Grounding’. The Natural Computing Applications Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics. Held 2010.
• Elshaw M., and Moore, R.K. (2009) ‘A Recurrent Working Memory Architecture for Emergent Speech Representation’. Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience. Held 30 September to 2 October 2009 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Abstract.
• Erwin, H., Elshaw, M., Rees, A., Perez-Gonzalez, D., and Wermter, S. (2007) ‘Modeling Regular Firing Neurons of the Inferior Colliculus’. In Wang, R., Shen, E., and Gu, F. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics, ‘International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics 2007’. Held 17-21 November 2007 in Shanghai, China. Springer Netherlands, 59-62.
• Elshaw, M., Erwin, H., Wermter, S., Perez-Gonzalez, D., and Rees, A. (2007) ‘Modelled Properties of Single Neurons in the Auditory Midbrain’. IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience. Held 12-17 July 2007 in Melbourne, Australia.
• Elshaw, M., and Wermter, S. (2002) ‘A Neurocognitive Approach to Self-organisation of Verb Actions’. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, ‘IJCNN’02’. Held 12-17 May 2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 29-34.
• Weber, C., Elshaw, M., Triesch, J., and Wermter, S. (2007) ‘Neural Control of Actions Involving Different Coordinate Systems’. In Humanoid Robots: Human-like Machines. Ed. By Hackel, M.  I-Tech Education and Publishing, 577-600.
• Wermter, S., Elshaw, M., Weber, C., Panchev, C., and Erwin, H. (2003) ‘Towards Integrating Learning by Demonstration and Instruction in a Multimodal Robotics’. Workshop On Robot Programming Through Demonstration, ‘IROS-2003’. Held 27-31 October 2003 in Las Vegas, USA., 72-79.