Gang Chen 陈刚

Ph.D

Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory

Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA

Email: gangchen.ucla <AT> gmail <dot> com

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I received my Ph.D degree from Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles in 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Abeer Alwan. Prior to that, I obtained B.S degree from Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2008. My research area includes: speech production system modeling, voice source estimation, laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy analysis, voice quality analysis, signal processing for clinical assessment, speech recognition, and keyword spotting.

Currently, I'm a senior staff engineer in Qualcomm San Diego. CV download.

PUBLICATIONS

PhD Dissertation

• Gang Chen, "The Voice Source in Speech Production: from Models to Applications," 05/2014.

Journal publications

• J. Kreiman, M. Garellek, G. Chen, A. Alwan, B. R. Gerratt, "Perceptual evaluation of voice source models", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 138 (1), July 2015. [Link to the journal article]

• G. Chen, J. Kreiman, and A. Alwan, "The glottaltopogram: a method of analyzing high-speed images of the vocal folds", Computer Speech and Language, Volume 28, Issue 5, September 2014, pp. 1156-1169. [link to the journal article] [toolkit]

• G. Chen, J. Kreiman, B. R. Gerratt, J. Neubauer, Y.-L. Shue, and A. Alwan, "Development of a glottal area index that integrates glottal gap size and open quotient," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 133, Issue 3, March 2013, pp. 1656–1666. [link to the journal article]

• J. Kreiman, Y.-L. Shue, G. Chen, M. Iseli, B. R. Gerratt, J. Neubauer, and A. Alwan, "Variability in the relationships among voice quality, harmonic amplitudes, open quotient, and glottal area waveform shape in sustained phonation," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 132, Issue 4, pp. 2625-2632 (2012). [link to the journal article]

Conference papers

• G. Chen, S. J. Park, J. Kreiman and A. Alwan, "Investigating the effect of F0 and vocal intensity on harmonic magnitudes: Data from high-speed laryngeal videoendoscopy" , Interspeech 2014, pp.1668-1672. [Best student paper award finalist]

• G. Chen, M. Garellek, J. Kreiman, B. R. Gerratt, A. Alwan, "A perceptually and physiologically motivated voice source model", Interspeech 2013, pp. 2001-2005. [Best student paper award finalist] [slides and audio samples]

• G. Chen, R. A. Samlan, J. Kreiman, A. Alwan, "Investigating the relationship between glottal area waveform shape and harmonic magnitudes through computational modeling and laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy", Interspeech 2013, pp. 3216-3220. [poster]

• J. Kreiman, M. Garellek, G. Chen, A. Alwan, and B. R.Gerratt, "Perceptual evaluation of source models," International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, 2012

• G. Chen, Y.-L. Shue, J. Kreiman, and A. Alwan, "Estimating the voice source in noise", Interspeech 2012, pp. 1600-1603.

• G. Chen, J. Kreiman, and A. Alwan, "The Glottaltopograph: A Method of Analyzing High-Speed Images of the Vocal Folds", ICASSP 2012, pp. 3985-3988.

• G. Chen, J. Kreiman, Yen-Liang Shue, and A. Alwan, "Acoustic Correlates of Glottal Gaps," Interspeech 2011, pp. 2673-2676

• Y.-L. Shue, G. Chen, and A. Alwan, "On the Interdependencies between Voice Quality, Glottal Gaps, and Voice-Source related Acoustic Measures," Interspeech 2010, pp. 34-37.

• G. Chen, X. Feng, Y.-L. Shue, and A. Alwan, "On Using Voice Source Measures in Automatic Gender Classification of Children's Speech," Interspeech 2010, pp. 673-676.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Served as a reviewer for

• Journal of Acoustical Society of America

• Speech Communication

• Computer Speech & Language

• EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

• Journal of Voice

• Computers in Biology and Medicine

• Interspeech

• International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing

• Journal of Signal Processing Systems

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Dimitris N. Chorafas Award 2014

• ISCA Student Travel Grant 2013

• Graduate Division Travel Grant, UCLA 2013

• Graduate Division Travel Grant, UCLA 2011

• University Fellowship, UCLA 2008

• Li & Fung Scholarship for Exchange Students, University of Hong Kong 2006

• First Class Scholarship, Tsinghua University 2005

• Freshman Scholarship, Tsinghua University 2004

MEMBERSHIPS

• IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS)

• International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

PATENTS

• • U.S. Patent No. 10390166, "System and Method for Mixing and Adjusting Multi-Input Ambisonics", granted on 08/20/2019.