Christian Kroos

He was awarded an MA and PhD in Phonetics and Speech Communication with Logic and Theatre Studies as minors by the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität (Munich, Germany). Over the last two decades he has conducted research in Germany (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität), Japan (ATR International, Kyoto), USA (Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT), Australia (Western Sydney University, Sydney & Curtin University, Perth) and the UK, spanning linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and the arts. He was a member of the Alternate Anatomies Lab under the direction of Australian performance artist Stelarc. Kroos published more than 80 scientific papers and currently develops research software at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) of the University of Surrey, UK, in the project ‘Making Sense of Sounds’. He is co-editor and contributor to the book ‘Robots and Art - Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis’ (Springer, 2016).