Dr. Brian Vaughan has a strong background in speech corpus development and emotional speech analysis, having worked on the FP7 SALERO (Sematic Audio VisuaL Entertainment Reuseable Objects) project ( ) while completing his PhD in the digital media domain, having lectured on a number of third level institutions in Ireland (Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, Griffith College, Digital Skills Academy, Dublin Institute of Design). Brian is currently employed as a postdoctoral research fellow on the Science Foundation Ireland funded FASTNET project (Focus on Actions in Social Talk: Networking-Enabling Technology) at the Speech Communication Lab at Trinity College Dublin. He is currently investigating non-verbal behaviour in the speech modality and is Principle Investigator on an Enterprise Ireland funded commericalisation project. He is particularly interested in applying his research in a number of diverse domains.