JINGYAO WU
MIT-Novo Nordisk AI Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoc Associate, MIT Media Lab
Ph. D at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
jingyaow@mit.edu
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MIT-Novo Nordisk AI Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoc Associate, MIT Media Lab
Ph. D at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
jingyaow@mit.edu
Google Scholar Linkedin ResearchGate
Jingyao Wu is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Media Lab (Jan 2025- current). Her research frontiers AI-driven emotion and mental health detection, particularly in affective computing and speech technology. She is the recipient of the MIT - Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Rising Stars - Women in Engineering, University of International Postgraduate Award Scholarship at UNSW, Best Paper Award of ACII2023 and Top 3% paper recognition prize at ICASSP2023, AAAC and ISCA Travel Grants, Dean’s Honours List at UNSW. She is seeking a faculty position.
Research Interests
Responsible AI in Speech and Affective Computing: Investigating how ambiguity and uncertainty affect AI-driven decision-making in mental health, speech technology, and affective computing to improve interpretability and trustworthiness.
Dynamics and Forecasting in Mental Health and Emotion Tracking: Developing machine learning models to track temporal changes in emotional states and mental health conditions, enabling personalized monitoring and early forecasting of emotion fluctuations, depression severity, and well-being trajectories.
AI for Mental Health and Well-Being: Leveraging speech and multimodal data and innovative aggregation techniques to enhance AI-based detection, intervention, and understanding of mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
✨Highlights:
2025/09: Two papers accepted by Neurips 2025 workshop!
2025/09: Our Best ACII 2023 invitation journal paper, entitled "How many raters do we need? Analyses of uncertainty in estimating ambiguity-aware emotion labels" is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing!
2025/08: Invited talk "Responsible Affective AI: Embracing Ambiguity and Subjectivity in Human-Centered Tasks" at Novo Nordisk A/S Denmark.
2025/06: Our paper entitled "Emotions as Ambiguity-aware Ordinal Representations" is accepted by ACII 2025.
2025/05: Our paper entitled "A Study of Speech Embedding Similarities Between Australian Aboriginal and High-Resource Languages" is accepted by INTERSPEECH 2025.
2025/05: I am invited to present at 2025 IEEE International Conference on AI and Data Analytics.
2025/04: I will serve as a Program Committe at ACII 2025 Multilingual and Multimodal Affective Computing (MMAC) workshop.
2024/12: I have been awarded the Ph.D! 🎓
2024/07: I have been offerred the MIT-Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2026 cohort)!
2024/07: Our paper entitled "Emotion Recognition Systems Must Embrace Ambiguity" is accepted by the Embracing Ambiguity and Subjectivity in Emotion Research (EASE 2024) workshop at ACII 2024.
2024/06: Our paper entitled "Dual-Constrained Dynamical Neural ODEs for Ambiguity-aware Continuous Emotion Prediction" is accepted by INTERSPEECH 2024.
2024/06: Our paper entitled "Can Modelling Inter-Rater Ambiguity Lead To Noise-Robust Continuous Emotion Predictions?" is accepted by INTERSPEECH 2024.
2023/11: Invited talk at OMU-UNSW Joint Symposium on Engineering Research by Women at Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan.
2023/11: Invited talk at The Rising Star Women in Engineering Workshop 2023, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
2023/11: Visit and give invited talk at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan.
2023/09: My lead authored paper, entitled "Belief Mismatch Coefficient (BMC): A Novel Interpretable Measure of Prediction Accuracy for Ambiguous Emotion States" received the Best Paper Award 🏆 at ACII 2023
MIT – Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship (10 fellows per cohort), 2024 – 2026
Schmidt Science Fellows Program Nomination by UNSW (one out of two nominees), 2024
🏆 ACII 2023, Best Paper Award (Top 1)
🏆 ICASSP2023, Top 3% paper recognition
ISCA, AAAC travel grant
The Rising Stars Women in Engineering (24 awardees, awarded at the Asian Dean’s Forum), 2023
University of International Postgraduate Award (UIPA) scholarship at UNSW, Australia, 2020 – 2024
Runner-up of the Three-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition of the Faculty of Engineering, UNSW, 2023
Winner of 3MT of the School of EET, UNSW, 2023
4th rank in Honours Thesis Competition, UNSW, 2019
2nd rank in IEEE Signal Processing Cup at ICASSP2019
Taste of Research scholarship, UNSW, 2018
Reviewer:
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
INTERSPEECH
ACII
ACIS2024
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