Hanlei Zhang

Rui Liu

Speech Information Processing, Natural Language Processing, and Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue.

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About me

Rui Liu is currently a Professor in National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Mongolian Intelligent Information Processing, Inner Mongolia University. Rui Liu received Ph.D degree from Inner Mongolia University, China in 2020 and Bachelor degree in Taiyuan University of Technology, ShanXi, China in 2014. From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, working with Prof. Haizhou Li. He was the recipient of the "Best Paper Award" at the 2021 International Conference on Asian Language Processing.

His research papers are mainly published in top-tier NLP/ML/AI journals and conferences, including IEEE/ACM-TASLP, IEEE-TAC, Neural Networks, AAAI, ACMMM, ICASSP, COLING, INTERSPEECH, etc.

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Education and Experience

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

(#: equal contribution *: corresponding author)

Projects

Principal Investigator

  1. Outstanding Youth Project of Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation（内蒙古杰青）
    No. 2025JQ011
    2025/07-2028/06
  2. Key R&D and Achievement Transformation Program of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region（内蒙古自治区重点研发和成果转化计划项目）
    No. 2025SYFHH1153
    2025/01-2027/12
  3. The Central Government Fund for Promoting Local Scientific and Technological Development（中央引导地方科技发展资金项目）
    No. 2025SZY0475
    2025/10-2028/09
  4. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)（国自然面上）
    No. 62476146
    2025/01-2028/12
  5. Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) （国自然青年）
    No. 62206136
    2023/01-2025/12
  6. High-level Talents Introduction Project of Inner Mongolia University (内蒙古大学高层次人才引进项目)
    No. 10000-22311201/002
    2022/05-2025/05

Talks

  1. Title: Mongolian Text-to-Speech Technology （蒙古语语音合成技术）.
    [Slides] [Video]
    Organizer: Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence （CAAI）
    Date: 20 Aug 2022
  2. Title: Emotion Intensity Research of Speech Synthesis (语音合成中的情感强度建模研究).
    [Slides] [Video]
    Organizer: SpeechHome （语音之家）
    Date: 19 May 2022
  3. Title: Prosody and Emotion Modeling in End-to-End Speech Synthesis （端到端语音合成中的韵律、情感建模研究）.
    [Slides] [Video]
    Organizer: CCF Professional Committee of Speech Dialogue and Auditory Processing
    Date: 04 Dec 2021

Activities

  1. Associate Editor:
    - IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing（IEEE-TAFFC）
    - ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing（TALLIP）
  2. Guest Editor:
    - IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
  3. Conference Reviewer:
    - ACL 2024
    - NAACL 2024
    - INTERSPEECH 2021/2022/2023/2024
    - ICASSP 2021/2022/2023/2024
    - Joint Workshop for the Blizzard Challenge and Voice Conversion Challenge 2020
    - SLT 2022
    - O-COCOSDA 2022
  4. Journal Reviewer:
    - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (IEEE/ACM-TASLP)
    - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE-TNNLS)
    - IEEE Signal Processing Letters
    - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE-IoTJ)
    - Neural Nertworks
    - NeuroComputing
    - Speech Communication
  5. Professional Service:
    - Program Chair, IEEE-IALP 2024, Hohhot, China
    - Session Chair, IEEE-ICASSP 2023/2024
    - Session Chair, IEEE-ISCSLP 2024
    - Local Arrangement Co-chair, O-COCOSDA 2021, Singapore.
    - Local Arrangement Co-chair, IWSDS 2021, Singapore
    - Local Arrangement Co-chair, SIGDIAL 2021, Singapore
    - Student Volunteer, ASRU 2019 (IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop), Singapore
    - Student Volunteer, NLPCC 2018 (7th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing), Hohhot, China.
    - Program Committee Member, O-COCOSDA 2022.

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