Brian Kan-wing Mak
Scholar

Brian Kan-wing Mak

Google Scholar ID: Zx8p8RsAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
automatic speech recognitionspeaker adaptationartificial neural networkartificial intelligence
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Citations
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H-index
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Best Paper Award (2004) from IEEE Signal Processing Society in Speech Processing (co-authored with Dr. Enrico Bocchieri)
  • Best Student Paper Award (2012) at ISCSLP for paper co-authored with PhD student Guoli Ye
  • Special Mention, Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching (2019), HKUST
  • Teaching Excellence Appreciation Awards from HKUST School of Engineering (2000, 2018)
  • Named among 'Best Ten Lecturers' by student union VERTEX (2006)
  • Teaching Innovation Award recipient (2007) as part of a recognized teaching team at HKUST
  • Supervised multiple HKUST President's Cup winning projects: 2015 (two projects), 2016 (Gold Award), and 2017 (Finalist)
  • Supervised project 'Helen - An Accessibility Device for AI-based Lip Reading' won the IET Present Around The World (PATW) Competition 2019 Final
Research Experience
  • Served in various organizational roles for international conferences, including General Co-chair of ISCSLP 2020, Area Chair for Interspeech 2020/2014 and ICASSP 2007, Technical Program Co-chair for ISCSLP 2012/2010, and Panel and Invited Speaker Co-chair for IEEE SLT 2020
  • Member of the Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006–2008)
  • Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing (2009–2010)
  • Member of the Expert Review Panel of the Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM), Hong Kong SAR (since 2019)
  • Supervised multiple undergraduate research projects that won HKUST President's Cup awards