Jun Wang,    (chinese)

141, Barkley Center. 
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Special Education & Communication Disorders
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, NE 68588

Hi, I'm a PhD candidate at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UNL . I am currently working on my dissertation at the Speech Production Lab, Dept of Special Education and Communication Disorder, Barkley Center. Before I came to UNL, I worked at IBM China Software Development Lab as a Software Engineer in Beijing, China for two years after a Research Summer Intern at IBM Research (China) and obtaining my MS and BS degree (both in Computer Science) in China.

My advisors are Dr. Ashok Samal (computer science) and Dr. Jordan R. Green (communication disorders).

Quick update: I've defended on November 2011 and will be a post-doc at University of Nebraska Medical Center starting from January 2012.

Research

Silent speech recognition or articulatory recognition*, Speech HCI, real-time articulation-to-speech synthesis
Computational speech production, motor speech decline in early amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) 

Tongue motion tracking devices
Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) (AG500) ; Wave Speech Research System

Selected Publications & Manuscripts

• Wang, J., Samal, A., Green, J. R., & Rudzicz, F. (2012) Sentence recognition from articulatory movements for silent speech interfaces, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan. (To appear)
• Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Greenwoode, L., Wang, J., Pattee, G. L., & Zinman, L. Tongue Movements and their Acoustic Consequences in ALS, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica (International Journal of Phoniatrics, Speech Therapy and Communication Pathology). (under review).
• Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Marx, D. B. (2011) Quantifying articulatory distinctiveness of vowels, InterSpeech (pp. 277-280), Florence, Italy.
• Yunusova Y., Green J.R., Wang J., Pattee G., & Zinman L. (2011). A Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Bulbar (speech) Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 48.
• Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. D. (2010) Vowel recognition from continuous articulatory movements for speaker-dependent applications , Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) (pp. 1-7), Gold Coast, Australia, Dec. 2010.
• Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. D. (2009) Vowel recognition from articulatory position time-series data, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) (pp. 1-7), Omaha, United States.

Abstracts

• Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., Yunusova, Y., & Kuruvilla, M. S. (2012) Stage-based progression of articulatory performances in early ALS, Conference on Motor Speech, Santa Rosa, CA.(To appear)
  
• Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. (2010) Recognizing Continuously Produced Vowels from Articulatory Movements, Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA.
  
• Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Wang, J., & Lingham, A. (2010) Jerk-cost and other motor indices of disease progression in ALS, Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA.
  
• Wang, J., Samal, A., Green, J. R., & Carrell, T. D. (2009) Vowel recognition from articulatory position time-series data, the 157th Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, Portland, OR.

Awards

• International Travel Award, College of Education and Human Sciences, UNL, 2011
• RMPT Award, ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association), 2009
• Dohrmann Fellowship, Dept of CSE, UNL, 2006-07

Professional Memberships

Student Member, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Member, National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA)
Student Member, International Speech Commuincation Association (ISCA)

Personal Fun

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