Prof. Jan Schnupp

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jan Schnupp graduated from University College London with a Bachelor in Genetics in 1990 and obtained a doctorate in Neurophysiology from the University of Oxford in 1996 and a bachelor in mathematical sciences from the Open University in 2006. He was a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and a visiting research fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison before joining the faculty of the University of Oxford in 2002, where he was promoted to Professor in 2010. In 2016, Jan joined the faculty of City University of Hong Kong and in 2024 he moved to Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

Dr Volker Kühnel

Sonova AG

Volker Kühnel is a Principle Expert in Hearing Performance at Sonova AG in Switzerland. He received his PhD degree in Physics in 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he worked as a post-doc in the group of Medical Physics of Prof. Dr. B. Kollmeier, Oldenburg, Germany. Since 1998, at Phonak/Sonova he is taking care of the audiological design in product development by connecting hearing aid algorithms and individualization in hearing aid fitting. He is member of the IEC TC 29.

Prof. Anthony Pak-Hin Kong 

The University of Hong Kong

Professor Anthony Pak-Hin Kong is the Head of the Academic Unit of Human Communication, Learning, and Development (HCLD) and Director of Aphasia Research and Therapy (ART) Laboratory at The University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and Academy of Aphasia (AoA). His research focuses on stroke-induced aphasia, discourse analysis, and neurogenic communication disorders in individuals who speak multiple languages. He has previously held roles as the Center-in-Charge of the Speech Therapy Center at The Hong Kong Society for the Deaf (2006-07) and as Vice Chairperson of the Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (2004-07). Currently, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Languages at MDPI.

Prof. Lena Wong

The University of Hong Kong

Prof. Lena Wong is Professor in Audiology at the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong; and a Past-President of the International Society of Audiology. She was formerly a research and clinical audiologist at the House Ear Institute. 

Her research interests include application of artificial intelligence to improve access to hearing care, barriers and facilitators of hearing aid uptake, outcome measurement of amplification devices, and speech and tone perception. A new area of interest is to develop tools for measuring hearing and cognitive function simultaneously and to make hearing and speech intervention accessible globally. 

Prof. Jenny Loo

National University of Singapore 

Dr. Jenny Loo is an audiologist and educator dedicated to advancing hearing healthcare. As Head of Audiology at NUH and Associate Professor at NUS, she combines clinical leadership with academic mentorship. Her research covers central auditory processing disorder (CAPD), population hearing health, and innovative community audiology models. She spearheaded the NUH Community Audiology Service to bring hearing care into Singapore's heartlands.

Dr. Lei Song

Ear Institute, Shanghai 9th People's Hospital

Dr. Lei Song is a Researcher at Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Principal Investigator of Auditory physiology Lab at Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He obtained Bachelor of Medicine degree at Shanghai Medical University (Shanghai, China); and Ph.D. in Biomedical Science at Creighton University and Boys Town National Research Hospital (Omaha, Nebraska, USA). Postdoc experience at Yale School of Medicine. He is the member of Chinese Association of Biophysics, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO, USA), and the founding member of International Society for Inner Ear Therapeutics (ISIET, France). He also served as a peer reviewer of journals of Hearing Research, JARO, Biophysical Journal, and Journal of Physiology.

Prof. Jingjing Zhao

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jingjing Zhao is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. After completing two post-doctoral positions at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and the National University of Ireland in Galway, she joined the faculty at the School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University where she was a full professor. She spent a year at the Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh for an academic visit before joining the faculty at the Department of Psychology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the August of 2024. Her research interests are the development of language, mathematics, and social cognition, its disorders (e.g., dyslexia, dyscalculia, and autism) and its determinants at multiple levels of description (e.g., cognitive, neural, genetic, and environmental).

Prof. William Choi

The University of Hong Kong

Professor William Choi is the Director of the HKU Speech and Music Perception Laboratory, Assistant Professor of Speech-Language Pathology at The University of Hong Kong, and a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society (FPsyS). His major research area is psycholinguistics, with special interests in suprasegmental speech perception, reading, and music cognition. He serves as the Associate Editor of Journal of Research in Reading, Deafness & Education International, Frontiers in Psychology, and Frontiers in Communication. Additionally, he is a Committee Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Speech Therapists.

Prof. Xiangbin Teng

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Xiangbin Teng is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Cognition and Perception from New York University and previously conducted research at the Max Planck Institutes in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on how the brain dynamically encodes and predicts temporal structure in naturalistic auditory signals, such as speech and music. At CUHK, he leads a research lab dedicated to uncovering the neural mechanisms of auditory time perception using EEG, MEG, and computational modeling.

Dr Mengfan Wu

University of Nottingham

Dr. Mengfan Wu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Hearing Sciences Department at the University of Nottingham. Dr. Mengfan Wu has over seven years’ research experience in the fields of speech perception, hearing loss, and hearing rehabilitation. Dr. Mengfan Wu has led and coordinated several research projects focused on innovative tools for profiling and treating hearing loss, involving collaborations between academia, hearing-aid manufacturers, and hospitals in Denmark and the United Kingdom. At present, Dr. Mengfan Wu's main role is the lead investigator of a project about perceptual learning and speech processing strategies in older hearing-aid users. This project investigates the effects of hearing-aid experience and auditory training on listening strategies and is funded by the Launchpad Grant from the Medical Research Foundation.