Professor Helen Meng has been elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2016, “for contributions to multilingual, multimodal human-computer interaction and language-learning technologies.”

Nov 22, 2016

Professor Helen Meng has been elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2016, “for contributions to multilingual, multimodal human-computer interaction and language-learning technologies.” In 2007, ISCA began its Fellows Program to recognize and honor outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. The total number of Fellows selected in any one year will not exceed one-third percent of the total ISCA membership in that year. (http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/honors/fellows)

Mr. Lifa Sun (PhD candidate, Supervisor: Prof. Helen Meng) has received the Best Paper Award from the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2016), Seattle, USA, July 11-15, 2016

July 11-15, 2016

ICME has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities. The paper, coauthored with Kun Li, Hao Wang, Shiyin Kang (who are also PhD candidates in SEEM), is entitled “Phonetic Posteriorgrams for Many-to-one Voice Conversion without Parallel Data Training” (http://www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~hccl/publications/pub/2016_paper_297.pdf)