Resume
Academic Achievements
- 2016 Winner of the IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant.
- 2015 David Daniel Fellowship Award (Only recipient out of 81 PhD students).
- 2014 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.
- 2013 ISCA Grant by International Speech Communication Association.
- 2013 Winners of the IBM Research Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grants.
- 2012 Outstanding Alumni Award (Student Category) by Tsinghua Alumni Assoc. of DFW.
- 2010 Outstanding Leadership by FACSS of UTDallas.
- Published papers: Fei Tao and Gang Liu, “Advanced LSTM: A study about better time dependency modeling in emotion recognition,” [Accepted by ICASSP2018]; Fei Tao, Gang Liu, Qingen Zhao, "AN ENSEMBLE FRAMEWORK OF VOICE-BASED EMOTION RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR FILMS AND TV PROGRAMS," Accepted by ICASSP2018.
Research Experience
- Led CRSS and Alibaba teams for the NIST Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE) and Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE) competitions from 2010 to 2016.
- NIST SRE 2016: Speaker ID under severe language mismatch (Team Leader @Alibaba).
- ASVspoof2015: Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge (Team member @CRSS).
- NIST SRE 2013: iVector Machine Learning investigation (Team Leader @CRSS).
- NIST SRE 2012: Classifier designing (Team member @CRSS).
- NIST LRE 2011: Big data purification (Team Leader @CRSS).
- NIST SRE 2010: Feature extraction (Team member @CRSS).
Education
- No specific educational background information provided.
Background
- Research interests include speech signal processing and machine listening/learning. Committed to advancing the robustness and efficiency of speech systems. He is an energetic researcher and a nice person.
Miscellany
- He enjoys community service and sharing with friends, believing it to be part of his life's meaning. He is a member of IEEE, ISCA, and ACM. Serves as a reviewer for over 100 conference and journal papers.