Scholar
Kong Aik Lee
Google Scholar ID: SZegiA4AAAAJ
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,115
H-index
37
i10-index
106
Publications
20
Co-authors
43
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Editor for Elsevier Computer Speech and Language (since 2016)
- - Senior AE for IEEE Signal Processing Letters (since 2024)
- - Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2017 - 2021)
- - Elected member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2019 - 2021, 2022 - 2024)
Research Experience
- - Research Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore, focusing on speaker and language recognition research
- - Advanced to roles of team leader and strategic planning manager
- - Worked at NEC Corporation in Japan, specializing in voice biometrics and multi-modal biometrics research
- - Associate Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- - Associate Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) from March to September/October 2023
- - Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Infocomm Research, leading the Para-linguistic AI Group
Background
- Speech scientist and technologist. His research goal is to build machine intelligence in making sense of audio, speech, and language information. This leads him to a number of subfields of computer science and electrical engineering, including infocomm, information science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and multimedia processing. He believes in social value creation using human language technologies to deliver high-value-added solutions to people and society. As an educator, he sees himself as a facilitator of learning, passionate about co-creating knowledge with students by building on their insights and curiosity to cultivate a collaborative and forward-looking learning environment.
Miscellany
- Involved in organizing various international conferences, such as Chair of ISCA Speaker and Language Recognition (SpLC) SIG (2025 - 2027), Perspective and Panel Session Chairs for APSIPA ASC 2025 in Singapore, and more.
