Professor Helen Meng and her research team received the Best Oral Paper Award in APSIPA 2010.

DEC-2010

Professor Helen Meng and her research team from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management won the Best Oral Paper Award at the Annual Summit and Conference of The Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA2010). The paper, entitled “Development of Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis Technologies to Support Chinese Learners of English — The CUHK Experience”, presents the recent achievements in computer-aided pronunciation training made by the team. The list of authors include:
Helen Meng, Wai-Kit Lo, Alissa Harrison, Pauline Lee, Ka-Ho Wong, Wai-Kim Leung and Fanbo Meng.

APSIPA aims to be one of the most competitive conferences covering the area of signal processing, information technology, and communications. The acceptance rate of oral papers in APSIPA2010 is 23.4%.
http://apsipa2010.i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Mr XiaojunQian won the Best Student Paper Award in the 5th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum-2010.

Mr XiaojunQian, a Ph.D. student supervised by Professor Helen Meng and Dr. Frank Soong from MSRA, won the best student paper award in the 5th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum-2010 ( https://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/PHDForum/2010/start ). The paper is titled “Discriminatively Trained Acoustic Models fro Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training”. The objective of the Forum is to bring together Ph.D. students from top universities who are conducting research in areas such as cloud computing, social networks, computer networks, data management, rich media computing etc. A total of more than 100 papers were submitted this year, and about 40 Ph.D. students were selected to participate in this Forum. Three best student paper awards were given.

Mr. Xiaojun Qian, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, was awarded the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2010.

Nov 2010

Xiaojun is one among the 25 students selected for the fellowship from a pool of 98 distinguished Ph.D. candidates nominated from more than 50 leading research universities/institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. In the twelve years since the MSRA Fellowship Program started, more than two hundred and eighty Ph.D. candidates from fifty universities/institutions have been awarded the Fellowship. The program has been highly successful in fostering advances and collaboration in computer science and research.