Professional Services

• Executive Editor:

           <Biomedical Signal Processing and Control> [2024-present]

• Associate Editor:

           <Biomedical Signal Processing and Control> [2021-2024]

           <Frontiers in Human Neuroscience> [2020-present]

• Editorial Board Member:

           <Physiological Measurement>                            [2017-present]

           <Progress in Biomedical Engineering>             [2024-present]

           <Scientific Reports>                                              [2021-2024]

• Guest Editor:

1. “Statistical Learning and Machine Learning: Advances in Neurobiological and Computational Approaches,” Special issue of Brain Sciences, 2023

2. “Language processing,” Special Collection of Scientific Reports, 2023

3. “AI empowered cerebro-cardiovascular health engineering,” Special Issue of Frontiers in Physiology (JCR I), 2022

4. (Leading) “Advances in biomedical signal processing for communication disorders,” Special Issue of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (JCR II), 2021

5. (Leading) “New discoveries in the benefits and outcomes of cochlear implantation,” Special Topic of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021

6. (Leading) “Flexible sensing and medical imaging for cerebro-cardiovascular health,” Special Issue of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JCR I), 2019

7. (Leading) “Speech perception of Chinese-speaking cochlear implantees,” Special Issue of International Journal of Audiology, 2017

8. (Leading) “Advanced signal processing and modeling for neuroengineering,” Special Issue of BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2017

9. “Advanced signal processing for cardiovascular and neurological diseases,” Special Issue of Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2016

Organization of Conferences, Workshops, Panels, Symposia

Committee of conferences:

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

• Conference Chair, The 2023 International Workshop on Frontiers in Hearing Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, 02 September 2023

• Organizing Committee Member, The 4th Clarity Workshop for Machine Learning Challenges for Hearing Aids (Clarity-2023), 19th August 2023, Trinity Business School, Dublin, Ireland

• Conference Chair, International Workshop on the Impact of Auditory and Visual Impairments and Its Community Care Solutions, Shenzhen, China, 2017

• Conference Co-chair, The 1st Chinese Hearing Research conference, Shenzhen, China, 2015

• Technical Program Co-Chair, Interdisciplinary Technologies for Auditory Prostheses 2023 (iTAP 2023), Nanjing, China, 13-15 October 2023

• Technical Program Co-Chair, Interdisciplinary Technologies for Auditory Prostheses 2022 (iTAP 2022), online, 10 December 2022

• Technical Program Chair, The 11th International School and Symposium on Biomedical and Health Engineering, Chengdu, China, 2019

• Technical Program Co-Chair, The 13th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors, Macau, China, 22-25 June 2018

• Technical Program Chair, The 11th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors, Shenzhen, China, 2017

• Technical Program Co-chair, 2015 Speech Signal Processing Workshop, Taipei, 2015

• Publicity Co-chair, 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023), Taipei, 16-20 December 2023

• Publication Co-chair, The 12th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Hong Kong, 24-26 January 2021

• Meta reviewer, The 2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2024), Macau, 02-05 December 2024

• Meta reviewer, The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023), Taipei, 2023

• Technical Program Committee member, The 12th Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Tokyo, Japan, 2021

• Technical Program Committee member, the 16th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC), Xuzhou, China, 2021

• Technical Program Committee member, the 7th International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS), 2018, 2017, 2016

• Session Chair/Co-Chair

  • “言语交流中的脑电信息解码及应用EEG analysis and application for speech communication”, the 1st Belt and Road Conference Advancing Population Brain Health through Brain-Apparatus Communication, 06-08 September 2024, Chengdu, China.

  • ‘语音交流中的神经生理信号解码及其应用’, the 18th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC 2023), 8-11 December 2023, Suzhou, China.

  • 'Speech emotion recognition 1', the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2023), Dublin, Ireland, 20-24 August 2023.

  • 'Speech enhancement and separation', the 13th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2022), Singapore, 11-14 December 2022.

  • 'Speech intelligibility prediction for hearing-impaired listeners II', the 23th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2022), Incheon, Korea, 18-22 September 2022.

  • 'Deep learning IV', the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022), Singapore, 07-13 May 2022.

  • 'Assessment of pathological speech and language II', the 21th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2021), Brno, Czechia, 30 August-3 September 2021.

  • 'Spoken language technology', the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2021), Hong Kong, 24-26 January 2021.

  • 'Noise reduction and intelligibility', the 21th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020), Shanghai, October 25-29, 2020.

  • 'Audio and acoustic signal processing', the 23rd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2018), Shanghai, 19-21 November 2018.

  • 'Speech and communication', the 46th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise 2017), Hong Kong, August 23-27, 2017.

  • 'Speech recognition at adverse acoustic conditions', the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2016), Tianjin, China, October 17-20, 2016.

  • 'Intelligibility and masking', the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2016), San Francisco, 8-12 September 2016.

  • 'Signal processing for assistive hearing devices', the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia, 19-24 April, 2015.

Organizing mini-symposium and sessions of conferences:

• 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.

• Organize (with Dr. Yu Tsao) a tutorial “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.

• 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), 8-11 December 2023, Suzhou, China.

• Organize a tutorial “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.

• Organized (with Dr. Yu Tsao) a tutorial  “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.

• Organized (with Dr. Yu Tsao) a tutorial  “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.

• Organized (with Dr. Yu Tsao) a tutorial  “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.

• Co-organize (with Dr. 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.

• Organized (with Dr. Yu Tsao) a tutorial  “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.

• Organized (with Dr. Yu Tsao) a tutorial “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.

• Co-organize (with Dr. Yu Tsao) 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.

• Co-organize a challenge & special session “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.

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

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

• Organized (with Dr. Yu Tsao) a tutorial “Speech enhancement based on deep learning and intelligibility evaluation”, the 11th Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2019), Lanzhou, 18-21 November 2019.

• Organized and chaired a mini-symposium “Photoplethysmography measurements, advanced signal processing and cardiovascular applications”, the 41th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS (EMBC 2019), Berlin, Germany, July 23-27, 2019.

• Organized and chaired a special session “Speech and communication”, the 46th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise 2017), Hong Kong, August 23-27, 2017.

• Organized and chaired a special session “Speech recognition at adverse acoustic conditions”, the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2016), Tianjin, China, October 17-20, 2016.

• Organized (with Dr. Yu Tsao) a special session “Signal processing for assistive hearing devices”, the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia, 19-24 April, 2015.

• Organized and chaired a special session “Biomedical signal processing in assistive hearing systems”, International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC 2014), Singapore, 10-12 December, 2014.

PhD Defense Committee Member

• 2024:

  • Dr. Yadong Niu, Peking University (China), 26 May

  • Dr. Muxin Liao and Dr. Huali Zhou, Shenzhen University (China), 14 May

  • Dr. Jing Yang, Southern University of Science and Technology (China), 09 May

• 2023:

  • Dr. Monira Islam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China), 20 November

  • Dr. Sai Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology (China), 13 November

  • Dr. Haoshi Ho, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), 13 November

  • Dr. Ben-zheng Li, University of Macau (Macau, China), 3 July

  • Dr. Xin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), 12 May

  • Dr. Mathias Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University (Denmark), 2 May

  • Dr. Ning Ji and Dr. Shuran Zhou, Northeastern University (China), 19 March

• 2022:

  • Dr. Chenggang Zhang and Dr. Yonghe Wang, Inner Mongolia University (China), 24 November

  • Dr. Tao Song, Peking University (China), 27 May

  • Dr. Shutao Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Kong Kong, China), 25 January

• 2021:

  • Dr. Yang Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology (China), 29 December

  • Dr. Hao Li, Inner Mongolia University (China), 3 December

  • Dr. Jikui Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), 25 November

  • Dr. Shouling Huang, Harbin Institute of Technology (China), 26 September

  • Dr. Hao Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), 17 May

  • Dr. Jiawen Li and Dr. Panke Wang, University of Macau (Macau, China), 28 April

• 2020:

  • Dr. Heinrich Dinkel, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), 22 November