I'm Zac Dair, Advance CRT PhD student. I have a bachelors (hons) degree in software development, first class honors, from Munster Technological University. My main areas of interest are AI, Psychophysiology, Affective Computing, HCI and Game Development.
Currently I'm exploring the research domain of Affective Computing, I've dabbled in aspects of emotion recognition from speech.
More information on that can be found in my publications - ISSC 2021 and AICS 2021
The research I am currently focused on the usage of physiological signals for increasing the personalization of healthcare with wearable technology.
In the past I have worked as a customer support agent, as a computer science tutor, and as an software development intern in McKesson (Fortune 7 Company).
- 🎓 BSc Software Development (November 2020) from CIT
- 🎓 BSc (Hons) Software Development (November 2021) from MTU
- 📚 I’m currently researching psychophysiological analysis, affective computing, machine learning and complex adaptive systems.
- 😄 Hobbies: 1. Game Development, 2. Archery, 3. Gaming
- ⚡ Fun fact: I speak 2 languages fluently English and French, and I used to study both Latin and Spanish.
ISSC 2021 Classification of Emotive Expression Using Verbal and Non Verbal Components of Speech Link
AICS 2021 Linguistic and Gender Variation in Speech Emotion Recognition using Spectral Features Link