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• [28 November 2024] Editorial Board member of journal <Progress in Biomedical Engineering> (IF: 5.0)

• [04 October 2024] Mr. Jiahao Hu passed his PhD oral exam. Congratulations!

• [24 September 2024] Organization committee (Publication) member, the 28th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2027), São Paulo, Brazil

• [13 September 2024] Promoted to executive editor of <Biomedical Signal Processing and Control>

• [20 May 2024] Co-organize (with Dr. Jing Chen) a special session “言语交流中的脑电信息解码及应用EEG analysis and application for speech communication”, in the 1st Belt and Road Conference Advancing Population Brain Health through Brain-Apparatus Communication, 06-08 September 2024, Chengdu, China.

• [08 May 2024] Mr. Shangdi Liao passed his Msc oral exam. Congratulations!

• [14 April 2024] Delivered a tutorial talk (with Dr. Yu Tsao) “Advances in Objective Speech Intelligibility and Quality Assessment: From Psychoacoustics to Machine Learning”, in the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), 14 April 2024, Seoul, Korea.

• [31 December 2023] Dr. Hao Li won the second prize at the ICASSP2024 Auditory Challenge: Task 2 (regression). Congratulations.

• [28 November 2023] Dr. Zengzhi Guo (former PhD student) works as assistant professor at Northeastern University. Congratulations.

• [28 November 2023] Dr. Lei Wang (former PhD student) works as assistant professor at Guangzhou University. Congratulations.

• [07 September 2023] To organize a special session “语音交流中的神经生理信号解码及其应用”, in the 18th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC 2023), 08-11 December 2023, Suzhou, China.

• [07 September 2023] To give a tutorial talk “语音可懂度的客观评估技术”, in the 18th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC 2023), 8 December 2023, Suzhou, China.

• [20 June 2023] To give a keynote talk “Objective speech intelligibility prediction: Insights from human speech perception”, in the 4th Clarity Workshop for Machine Learning Challenges for Hearing Aids (Clarity-2023), 19 August 2023, Trinity Business School, Dublin, Ireland.

• [24 May 2023] To give a tutorial talk (with Prof. Yu Tsao) “Advances in Psychoacoustics and Machine Learning towards Objective Speech Intelligibility Evaluation”, in the 15th Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2023), Taipei, 31 October - 3 November 2023.

• [16 May 2023] Mr. Zengzhi Guo passed his PhD oral exam. Congratulations!

• [15 May 2023] Mr. Jiajian Hu passed his Msc oral exam. Congratulations!

• [16 March 2023] Organizing Committee Member of "The 4th Clarity Workshop for Machine Learning Challenges for Hearing Aids (Clarity-2023)," 19 August 2023, Trinity Business School, Dublin, Ireland.

• [15 March 2023] To give an invited keynote talk “Speech intelligibility prediction methods and their usage for hearing aid research,” in the 10th International Hearing Instruments Developer Forum, Oldenburg, Germany, 01-02 June 2023.

• [09 March 2023] To give a tutorial talk (with Prof. Yu Tsao) “Speech Assessment Metrics: From Psychoacoustics to Machine Learning,” in the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2023), Dublin, Ireland, 20-24 August 2023.

• [05 January 2023] Mr. Fuqiang Ye passed his PhD oral exam. Congratulations!

• [03 November 2022] To give a tutorial talk (with Prof. Yu Tsao) “Advances in Speech Assessment Metrics: From Psychoacoustics to Machine Learning,” in the IEEE 41st International Conference on Consumer Electronics (IEEE ICCE 2023), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 6-8 January 2023.

• [11 August 2022] Edit a special collection of “Language processing” in Scientific Reports, 2022.

• [22 July 2022] Co-organize (with Dr. Jen-Cheng Hou and Prof. Yu Tsao) a special session 'Towards real-world human-centric acoustic signal processing' in the 14th Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2022), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 7-10 November 2022.

• [29 June 2022] Our team (with National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica) won the Gold Prize of Best Non-intrusive System at the Clarity Prediction Challenge, the 2nd Clarity Workshop on Machine Learning Challenges for Hearing Aids (Clarity-2022). Congratulations!

       The paper 'MBI-Net: A Non-Intrusive Multi-Branched Speech Intelligibility Prediction Model for Hearing Aids' is included in the Proceedings of the 23th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2022), Incheon, Korea, 18-22 September 2022.

• [06 May 2022] Mr Changjie Pan and Mr Zicheng Feng passed their Msc oral exams. Congratulations!

• [28 April 2022] Ms Yihan Wang and Ms Zhixing Liu passed their Msc oral exams. Congratulations!

• [16 April 2022] To give a tutorial talk (with Prof. Yu Tsao) “Speech enhancement for cochlear implants: From psychoacoustics to machine learning,” in the 23th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2022), Incheon, Korea, 18-22 September 2022.

• [04 April 2022] To give a tutorial talk (with Prof. Yu Tsao) “Advances in Cochlear Implants: From Speech Perception, Enhancement to Evaluation,” in the 30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022), Belgrade, Serbia, 29 August - 2 September 2022.

• [17 March 2022] Selected as the best reviewer for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics for 2021.

• [09 March 2022] Ms. Lei Wang and Mr. Zheyuan Yi both passed their PhD oral exams. Congratulations!

• [25 February 2022] Invited to give a keynote talk at International Conference on Smart Health Technology 2022 (ICSHT 2022), Hong Kong Metropolitan University, 25-26 March 2022.

• [13 February 2022] Appointed as Distinguished Lecturer (2022-2023) of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA).

• [17 January 2022] Co-organize a challenge “Non-intrusive objective speech quality assessment (NISQA) challenge for online conferencing applications”, in the 23th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2022), Incheon, Korea, 18-22 September 2022.

• [14 January 2022] Co-organize a special session “Speech intelligibility prediction for hearing-impaired listeners”, in the 23th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2022), Incheon, Korea, 18-22 September 2022.

• [14 December 2021] Delivered a tutorial talk (with Prof. Yu Tsao) “Speech Perception and Enhancement in Cochlear Implants”, in the 13th Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2021), Tokyo, Japan, 14-17 December 2021.

• [17 October 2021] Delivered a keynote talk  “Envelope-based Speech Intelligibility Study: From Intelligibility Modelling to Speech Reconstruction” at the 16th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC 2021), Xuzhou, 15-18 October 2021.

• [10 October 2021] Published review paper “Nonintrusive objective measurement of speech intelligibility: A review of methodology,” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.

• [15 September 2021] Organize a special issue of “Advances in biomedical signal processing for communication disorders” in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021.

• [14 September 2021] Organize a special topic issue of “New discoveries in the benefits and outcomes of cochlear implantation” in Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021.

• [29 July 2021] Appointed as Editorial Board Member of 'Scientific Reports'.

• [09 July 2021] Delivered a keynote talk  “Impact of Speech Segments: From Speech Perception to Auditory Attention Decoding” at “2021 Phonology and Brain Neural Mechanism Symposium”, Shanghai, 09-11 July 2021.

• [18 June 2021] Changjie Pan, Master student, received travel grant of the 22th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2021). Congratulations!

• [07 June 2021] Appointed as Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (July 2021- May 2022).

• [04 June 2021] Our paper “Investigating the physiological mechanism of the photoplethysmogram features for blood pressure estimation” has been awarded the Martin Black Prize for best paper published in the journal Physiological Measurement in 2020.

• [24 February 2021] Appointed as Associate Editor of 'Biomedical Signal Processing and Control'.

• [25 October 2020] Delivered a tutorial (with Prof. Yu Tsao) “Intelligibility Evaluation and Speech Enhancement based on Deep Learning”, in the 21th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020), Shanghai, October 25-29, 2020.

• Review paper 'Recent development of respiratory rate of measurement technologies' is the most cited & the most read paper of 'Physiological Measurement'.

• Ms. Wanting Huang, co-supervised PhD student at The University of Hong Kong, passed her PhD oral examination. Congratulations!

• Ms. Lei Wang, PhD student, received travel grant of the 21th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020). Congratulations!

• To give a keynote talk at “2020 Phonology and Brain Neural Mechanism Symposium”, Shanghai, August 16, 2020.

• Dr. Wanhua Lin's research proposal was granted by Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Congratulations!

• To give a keynote talk at Speech Signal Processing Workshop 2020 (SWS 2020), National Yangming University, Taipei.

Employment

• 07/2020 – Present             Full Professor/Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

• 12/2014 – 06/2020        Associate Professor/Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

• 01/2012 – 11/2014        Assistant Professor [Research]/Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

• 03/2009 – 12/2011       Post-doctor and later Research Assistant Professor/Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas [Supervisor: Dr. Philipos C. Loizou]

• 03/2005 – 02/2009      Research Associate/Shunhing Institute of Advanced Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Education

• 12/2001– 02/2005          PhD in Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Supervisor: Dr. Yuan-ting Zhang]

• 09/1998 – 07/2001           MPhil in Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

• 09/1994 – 07/1998           BSc in Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

Resume of Career

Dr. Fei Chen is now a full professor at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. Dr. Chen received his B.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees from, Nanjing University, and Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He continued his research as post-doctor and research assistant professor in University of Texas at Dallas (supervised by Prof. Philipos C. Loizou) and The University of Hong Kong, respectively. Dr. Chen is leading the speech and physiological signal processing (SPSP) research group in SUSTech, with research focus on speech communication and assistive hearing technologies, brain-computer interface, and biomedical signal processing. He published over 140 journal papers and over 110 conference papers in IEEE journals/conferences, Interspeech, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, etc. He was tutorial speakers of ICASSP 2024, Interspeech 2023, Interspeech 2022, EUSIPCO2022, APSIPA 2021, Interspeech 2020, and APSIPA 2019. He received the best presentation award in the 9th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language and Hearing. Dr. Chen is an APSIPA distinguished lecturer (2022-2023), and is now serving as executive editor of <Biomedical Signal Processing and Control>.

陈霏，南方科技大学电子与电气工程系长聘教授、博士生导师，南京大学电子系本科、硕士学位，香港中文大学电子工程系博士学位，长期从事言语交流和助听技术、听觉脑机接口、生物医学信号处理领域的研究工作。目前是国际电气与电子工程师协会（IEEE）高级会员、中国计算机学会专委会委员、广东省生物医学工程学会康复工程分会常务委员、深圳人工智能学会理事，主持科技部重点研发计划项目课题、国家自然科学基金项目、广东省科技厅重点项目和深圳市科创委项目等科研项目，发表140余篇期刊论文和100余篇国际学术会议论文。前担任国际学术期刊《Biomedical Signal Processing and Control》《Frontiers in Human Neuroscience》的副主编，亚太信号与信息处理学会的杰出讲师（Distinguished Lecturer 2022-2023），获得国际期刊《Physiological Measurement》最佳论文奖，多次担任ICASSP、Interspeech、EUSIPCO等国际会议的tutorial speaker。
 

Honors and Awards

• Best reviewer for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics for 2021

• Distinguished Lecturer (2022-2023), Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)

• The Martin Black Prize for the best paper published in the journal Physiological Measurement in 2020

• Best Paper Award, 2017 International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, Shenzhen

• Best Presentation Award, 9th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language and Hearing, Guangzhou, 2015

• Shenzhen Overseas High-caliber Personnel Award (Peacock Plan), 2015

• National Organization for Hearing Research (NOHR) Foundation Research Awards in USA, 2011

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Full Member, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

• Member, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

• Life Member, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)

• Member, Biophysical Society of China (BSC)/中国生物物理学会听觉言语和交流分会，常务委员

• Member, Chinese Computer Federation (CCF)/中国计算机学会语音对话与听觉专委会，委员

• Member, Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering (CSBME)/中国生物医学工程学会，委员

• Member, Acoustical Society of China (ASC)/中国声学学会语音、听觉和音乐分会，委员

• Member, China International Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Healthcare/中国医疗保健国际交流促进会听力学分会第二届委员会，委员

• Member, Guangdong Precision Medicine Application Association/广东精准医学应用学会听觉与前庭障碍分会，常务委员

• Member, Guangdong Society of Biomedical Engineering/广东省生物医学工程学会康复工程分会第二届委员会，常务委员

• Council Member, Shenzhen Association of Artificial Intelligence (SAAI)/深圳市人工智能学会，理事