Awards & Recognition
Awards
- 2026: IJCAI Early Career Spotlight, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2026)
- 2026: Best Presentation Award, Global Youth AI Forum, CUHK-Shenzhen
- 2023: Nominee, AI Newcomers, KI Camp organised by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Informatics Society (GI), Germany (Top 6 in Computer Science)
- 2022: Best Paper Award, RiTA conference
- 2013: Best Bachelor Thesis Award (Top 8%)
Invited Talks
“Toward trustworthy AI in digital health: Sensing, understanding, and empowerment”, invited talk at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany, 04.2026
“Trustworthy AI in human-centred computer audition”, invited talk at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 01.2026
“From voice to mind: Speech emotion recognition and silent speech interfaces”, invited talk at University of Macau, Macau, China, 11.2025
“Toward trustworthy AI in human-centric computer audition”, invited talk at University of Ulm, Germany, 06.2025
“Explainable AI meets acoustics: Advancing non-invasive solutions for personalized healthcare”, invited talk at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, 01.2025
“The opportunities and challenges of speech technology in IoT”, invited talk at Global Audio Summit, virtual, 07.2024
“Learning fast and effective speech emotion recognition models with self-distillation”, invited research talk at L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, virtual, 05.2023.
“Future of healthcare: Opportunities and challenges in computer audition”, invited research talk at Community Day of KI-Camp organised by Gesellschaft für Informatik, Germany, virtual, 24.03.2023.
“From local to global: Explainable AI for computer audition in digital health “, invited research talk in the Intelligent Sensing Winter School at the Centre for Intelligent Sensing, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, virtual, 12.12.2022.
“Multi-modal MIMIC-III ICU data: Recent AI breakthroughs”, invited research talk at Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany, virtual, 18.01.2022.
“Towards explainable and robust deep neural networks for computer audition”, invited research talk at L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, virtual, 24.02.2021.
“Deep learning in audio signal classification”, invited research talk at audEERING GmbH, Germany, 01.10.2020.
Impressions
- Helping doctors make decisions, in L3S Binaire Magazine, 01.2023.
- Researchers develop more comprehensive acoustic scene analysis method, in phys.org, 10.04.2018.