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• [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 2021), 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)," 19th 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 both passed their Msc oral exams. Congratulations!

• [28 April 2022] Ms Yihan Wang and Ms Zhixing Liu both 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 2020). 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

• Jul. 2020 – Present             Full Professor/Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China

• Dec. 2014 – Jun. 2020        Associate Professor/Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China

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

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

• Mar. 2005 – Feb. 2009      Research Associate/Shunhing Institute of Advanced Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Education

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

• Sep. 1998 – Jul. 2001           MPhil in Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing

• Sep. 1994 – Jul. 1998           BSc in Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing

Resume of Career

Dr. Fei Chen received his BSc and MPhil degrees in Electronic Engineering, Nanjing University, and PhD degree in Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005. He continued his research as post-doctor/research assistant professor in University of Texas at Dallas and The University of Hong Kong, and moved to Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2014. Dr. Chen is now a full professor in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, SUSTech. Dr. Chen’s research interests include speech communication and assistive hearing technology, brain-computer interface, and biomedical signal processing.

Dr. Chen is a senior member of IEEE, and has published over 100 journal papers and over 80 peer-reviewed conference papers. He received  the Martin Black Prize for the best paper published in the journal Physiological Measurement in 2020, the best presentation award in the 9th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language and Hearing, and 2011 National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation Research Awards in States. He is now serving as associate editor of <Biomedical Signal Processing and Control>,<Frontiers in Human Neuroscience> and <Frontiers in Psychology>, and editorial members of <Scientific Reports> and <Physiological Measurement>. He is a Distinguished Lecturer (2022-2023) of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). He worked as Leading Guest Editor for 2017 special issue of “Speech perception of Chinese-speaking cochlear implantees” in International Journal of Audiology and Leading Guest Editor for 2017 special issue of “Advanced signal processing and modeling for neuroengineering” in Biomedical Engineering Online.

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