Dr Nicholas (Nick) Cummins is a Senior Lecturer in Speech Analysis and Responsible AI in Health at the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics, King’s College London. He leads the Voice and Speech Processing for Health group, which conducts pioneering research integrating speech technologies into clinical research and practice.

Based in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Nick brings extensive experience in collecting and analysing speech and provides methodological leadership across large international projects, including RADAR-CNS, CONNECT, AIMS-2-TRIALS, and STORY. He is also a member of the King's Precision Health Informatics Data Lab and CAMHS Digital Lab.

In addition to his academic work, he consults for speech, health and MedTech companies, helping bridge the gap between research and real-world applications.

Nick’s work is guided by a responsible AI framework and combines advanced speech processing, machine learning, statistical analysis, and patient and public involvement. His multidisciplinary approach aims to develop reliable speech-based tools that support innovation in health research and clinical applications.

Nick was awarded his PhD in Electrical Engineering from UNSW Australia in 2016 for his thesis ‘Automatic assessment of depression from speech: paralinguistic analysis, modelling and machine learning’. This was followed by postdoctoral roles at the Universities of Passau and Augsburg, where he contributed to Horizon 2020 projects, and taught speech and AI focused courses.

Research interests

• Speech and Language Processing
• Speech Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Digital Phenotyping

Teaching

• Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Analytics
• Latent Variable Modelling

Expertise and public engagement

• Senior Member of the IEEE
• Theme lead Multimodal Patient Data Streams Drive-Health CDT
• Editorial Board Computer Speech & Language
• Chair International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Diversity Panel
• Steering Committee Member UK and Ireland Speech (UKIS)
• Management Committee European Network to Advance the Development and Implementation of Vocal Biomarkers (eVoiceNet) Cost Action