Resume
Academic Achievements
- Journal publications:
- - Hiformer: Sequence Modeling Networks with Hierarchical Attention Mechanisms, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2023
- - Estimating the Uncertainty in Emotion Class Labels With Utterance-Specific Dirichlet Priors, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2022
- - Exemplar-based Emotive Speech Synthesis, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2021
- - Speech Emotion Recognition Using Sequential Capsule Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2021
- - Any-to-Many Voice Conversion With Location-Relative Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2021
- - Intonation classification for L2 English speech using multi-distribution deep neural networks, Computer Speech & Language, 2016
- Conference publications:
- - A Hierarchical Regression Chain Framework for Affective Vocal Burst Recognition, ICASSP'23 (ACII 2022 Affective Vocal Burst (AV-B) Recognition competition 1st place)
- - Inferring Speaking Styles from Multi-modal Conversational Context by Multi-scale Relational Graph Convolutional Networks, ACM MM'22
- - Neural Architecture Search for Speech Emotion Recognition, ICASSP'22
- - Ensemble Approaches for Uncertainty in Spoken Language Assessment, Interspeech'20
- - Speech Emotion Recognition Using Capsule Networks, ICASSP'19
- - Rapid Style Adaptation Using Residual Error Embedding for Expressive Speech Synthesis, Interspeech'18
- - Feature based Adaptation for Speaking Style Synthesis, ICASSP'18
Research Experience
- - Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK
- - Research Associate in the Speech Group of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Engineering Department of University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Mark Gales and Dr. Kate Knill
Education
- - Ph.D. from CUHK, supervised by Prof. Helen Meng
- - M.S. from Tsinghua University, supervised by Prof. Zhiyong Wu
Background
- Currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK. Research interests include speech synthesis and recognition, affective computing, and neural network uncertainty.
Miscellany
- Activities & Service:
- - Publicity chair, ISCSLP 2022
- - Area chair, COLING 2022