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Academic Achievements
2016 Winner of the IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant.
2015 David Daniel Fellowship Award (Only recipient out of 81 PhD students).
2014 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.
2013 ISCA Grant by International Speech Communication Association.
2013 Winners of the IBM Research Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grants.
2012 Outstanding Alumni Award (Student Category) by Tsinghua Alumni Assoc. of DFW.
2010 Outstanding Leadership by FACSS of UTDallas.
Published papers: Fei Tao and Gang Liu, “Advanced LSTM: A study about better time dependency modeling in emotion recognition,” [Accepted by ICASSP2018]; Fei Tao, Gang Liu, Qingen Zhao, "AN ENSEMBLE FRAMEWORK OF VOICE-BASED EMOTION RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR FILMS AND TV PROGRAMS," Accepted by ICASSP2018.
Research Experience
Led CRSS and Alibaba teams for the NIST Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE) and Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE) competitions from 2010 to 2016.
NIST SRE 2016: Speaker ID under severe language mismatch (Team Leader @Alibaba).
ASVspoof2015: Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge (Team member @CRSS).
NIST SRE 2012: Classifier designing (Team member @CRSS).
NIST LRE 2011: Big data purification (Team Leader @CRSS).
NIST SRE 2010: Feature extraction (Team member @CRSS).
Education
No specific educational background information provided.
Background
Research interests include speech signal processing and machine listening/learning. Committed to advancing the robustness and efficiency of speech systems. He is an energetic researcher and a nice person.
Miscellany
He enjoys community service and sharing with friends, believing it to be part of his life's meaning. He is a member of IEEE, ISCA, and ACM. Serves as a reviewer for over 100 conference and journal papers.