{"id":13006,"date":"2022-06-14T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old-cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/?p=13006"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:29:10","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\tAwards\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong> (<strong>Siqi Cai<\/strong>): Peiwen Li, Enze Su, Jia Li, <strong>Siqi Cai<\/strong>, Longhan Xie, and <strong>Haizhou Li<\/strong>, &#8220;ESAA: An Eeg-Speech Auditory Attention Detection Database,&#8221; 25th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (O-COCOSDA), November 24-26, 2022, Vietnam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award (Chen Zhang):\u00a0<\/strong>Chen Zhang, Luis Fernando D&#8217;haro, Thomas Friedrichs, Haizhou Li and Yiming Chen, &#8220;Investigating the Impact of Pre-trained Language Models on Dialog Evaluation&#8221; at The 12th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology, 15-17 November 2021, Singapore.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award (Xinyuan Qian):\u00a0<\/strong>Qian Xinyuan, Bidisha Sharma, Amine El Abridi and Haizhou Li, &#8220;SLoClas: A DATABASE FOR JOINT SOUND LOCALIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION&#8221; at The 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA, 18-20 November 2021, Singapore.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IEEE Signal Processing Society Travel Grant 2020 (Rohan Kumar Das)<\/strong>: Rohan Kumar Das and Haizhou Li, &#8220;On The Importance of Vocal Tract Constriction for Speaker Characterization: The Whispered Speech Study&#8221; in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2020, Barcelona, Spain, May 2020, pp. 7119-7123.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Poster Award Runner Up Prize 2019 (Xiaoxue Gao):\u00a0<\/strong>Xiaoxue\u00a0Gao, &#8220;<em>Speech-to-Singing Conversion and Synthesis<\/em>&#8221; at 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, September 14th, 2019, Graz, Austria.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zhejiang Lab&#8217;s International Talent Fund:\u00a0<\/strong>Mr. Jibin Wu, received the &#8220;Zhejiang Lab&#8217;s International Talent Fund for Young Professionals&#8221; Zhejiang, China on 06 September 2019, for the project proposal of &#8220;Large-scale Automatic Speech Recognition with Deep Spiking Neural Networks&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISCA Grant 2019 (Xiaoxue Gao)<\/strong>: Xiaoxue Gao, &#8220;Speaker-Independent Spectral Mapping for Speech-to-Singing Conversion,&#8221; in Conversational Speech Synthesis: from design to evaluation, 22-26 July 2019, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Student Poster Award 2019 (Yi Zhou):\u00a0<\/strong>Yi Zhou, &#8220;<em>Cross-lingual Voice Conversion with Bilingual Phonetic PosterioGram and Average Modeling<\/em>&#8221; Conversational Speech Synthesis: from design to evaluation, 22-26 July 2019,\u00a0University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award 2019:\u00a0<\/strong>Jun Hu, Huajin Tang, Kay Chen Tan and Haizhou Li, &#8220;<i>How the Brain Formulates Memory: A Spatio-Temporal Model,&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 56-68, May 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IEEE Signal Processing Society Travel Grant (<\/strong><strong>Yi Zhou):<\/strong>\u00a0Yi Zhou, Xiaohai Tian, Haihua Xu, Rohan Kumar Das, Haizhou Li, &#8220;Cross-lingual Voice Conversion with Bilingual Phonetic Posteriorgram and Average Modeling&#8221; in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 12-17 May 2019, Brighton, UK.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Presentation Award (in PhD Forum):<\/strong>\u00a0Berrak Sisman, and Haizhou Li, &#8220;Limited Data Voice Conversion from Sparse Representation to Gans and Wavenet,&#8221; in 10th APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, 12-15 November 2018, Honolulu, USA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Student Paper Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Gajan Suthokumar, Kaavya Sriskandaraja, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Chamith Wijenayake, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Haizhou Li, &#8220;Use of Claimed Speaker Models for Replay Detection,&#8221; in 10th APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, 12-15 November 2018, Honolulu, USA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISCA Grant 2018 (Berrak Sisman)<\/strong>: Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li, &#8220;Wavelet Analysis of Speaker Dependent and Independent Prosody for Voice Conversion,&#8221; in Proc. INTERSPEECH, 2-6 September 2018, Hyderabad, India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poster Presentation Award<\/strong>: Karthika Vijayan, Minghui Dong, Haizhou Li, &#8220;A dual alignment scheme for improved speech-to-singing voice conversion,&#8221; in\u00a0 9th APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, 12-15 December, 2017, Kuala Lumper, Malaysia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Student Paper Award<\/strong>: Chitralekha Gupta, Haizhou Li, Ye Wang, &#8220;Perceptual evaluation of singing quality,&#8221; in 9th APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, 12-15 December, 2017, Kuala Lumper, Malaysia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Student Paper Award<\/strong>: Nancy F. Chen, Haizhou Li, &#8220;Computer-assisted pronunciation training: From pronunciation scoring towards spoken language learning&#8221;, in the 9th APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, 13-16 December, 2016, Jeju, Korea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding TNNLS Paper Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Qiang Yu, Huajin Tang, Kay Chen Tan, and Haizhou Li, &#8220;Rapid Feedforward Computation by Temporal Encoding and Learning With Spiking Neurons&#8221;, in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol.24, no.10, pp. 1539-1552, October 2013.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Jinyong Hou, Lei Xie, Peng Yang, Xiong Xiao, Zhixiang Liang, Haihua Xu, Lei Wang, Bin Ma, Hang Lu, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li, &#8220;A DTW approach to spoken term detection, &#8221; in China National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC), 25-27 October 2015, Tianjin China.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award (in ZeroSpeech 2015):<\/strong>\u00a0Hongjie Chen, Cheung-Chi Leung, Lei Xie, Bin Ma, Haizhou, &#8220;Parallel inference of process Gaussian mixture models for unsupervised acoustic modeling: a feasibility study,&#8221; in Proc. INTERSPEECH, 6-10 September 2015, Dresden, Germany.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Paper M. Anandakrishnan Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Sunil Sivadas, Boon Pang Lim, Thai Ngoc Thuy Hoang Helen, Muthalagu Meyyappan, Bin Ma, and Haizhou Li, &#8220;A Cloud-based Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System for Tamil,&#8221; in 14th Tamil Internet Conference 2015, 30 May &#8211; 1 June 2015, Singapore.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant:<\/strong>\u00a0Sven Ewan Shepstone, Kong Aik Lee, Haizhou Li, Zheng-Hua Tan, and S\u00f8ren Holdt Jensen, &#8220;Source-Specific Informative Prior for i-Vector Extraction,&#8221; in Proc. ICASSP 19-24 April 2015, Brisbane, Australia, April 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant:<\/strong>\u00a0Liping Chen, Kong-Aik Lee, Bin Ma, Wu Guo, Haizhou Li, and Li-Rong Dai, &#8220;Minimum divergence estimation of speaker prior in multi-session PLDA scoring,&#8221; in Proc. ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy, May 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Student Paper Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Zhizheng Wu, Tomi Kinnunen, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li, and Eliathamby Ambikairajah, &#8220;A study on spoofing attack in state-of-the-art speaker verification: the telephone speech case,&#8221; in 4th APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, 3-6 December 2012, Hollywood, California, USA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Student Paper Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Eryu Wang, Wu Guo, Li-Rong Dai, Kong-Aik Lee, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, &#8220;Factor analysis based spatial correlation modeling for speaker verification,&#8221; in 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) 2010, November 29 2010-December 3, 2010, Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/hlt\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReturn to HTL Main Page\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards Best Paper Award (Siqi Cai): Peiwen Li, Enze Su, Jia Li, Siqi Cai, Longhan Xie, and Haizhou Li, &#8220;ESAA: An Eeg-Speech Auditory Attention Detection Database,&#8221; 25th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (O-COCOSDA), November 24-26, 2022, Vietnam. 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