Francesco Sigona

Technical-scientific manager

francesco.sigona@unisalento.it
+39 0832 335082

  • 1992–1998: Master Degree in Electronic Engineering – Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
  • 2016–2021: PhD in Information Technologies for Engineering – University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
  • 2022-2024: Full time Researcher in Linguistics
  • 2025- : Full tme Researcher in Linguistics
  • Forensic Speech and Audio Science – Forensic voice comparison, speaker identification and verification, forensic phonetics, acoustic analysis, likelihood ratio (LR) frameworks, Bayesian evaluation of speech evidence, and development and validation of forensic software.
  • Speech Processing and Voice Biometrics – Automatic speaker recognition, speaker embeddings, deep learning approaches, speech signal processing, acoustic modelling, and biometric systems.
  • Computational Linguistics, Dialectology and Sociophonetics – Computational analysis of language variation, Italian dialects, acoustic phonetics, dialect modelling, and AI-based approaches to linguistic research.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – Application of machine learning and deep learning techniques to speech technologies, audio analysis, pattern recognition, and computational modelling.
  • Speech Analysis in Clinical and Cognitive Research – Computational and acoustic analysis of speech features for the investigation of cognitive decline and neurodegenerative conditions.