Short Bio
Qingju Liu received the B.Sc. degree in electronic information engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing in 2013 within the Machine Audition Group at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) in University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. She is currently a senior research scientist in Flawless AI, London. Her current research interests include audio-visual signal processing, synthetic audio, conversational speech, immersive audio, 3D head animation, face avatars, neural rendering.
Involved Projects at University
05/2019-10/2020, "Inpatient Monitoring Activity Project", Minebeamitsumi, University of Surrey, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
01/2014-05/2019, "S3A: future spatial audio for an immersive listener experience at home", EPSRC [University of Surrey, University of Southampton, University of Salford, and BBC.]
10/2013-03/2014, "Enhancing speech quality using lip tracking", SAMSUNG.
12/2012-12/2013, "Audio-visual cues based attention switching for machine listening", MILES and EPSRC.
10/2009-10/2012, "Multimodal blind source separation for robot audition", EPSRC and DSTL.
Education & Qualifications
Oct 2009-Aug 2013: University of Surrey – PhD. Electronic Engineering
Won the Best Solution Award on the DSTL Challenge "Undersampled Signal Recognition"
Sept 2008 – Sept 2009: Shandong University – MSc. Communication and Information Systems
Admitted by the graduate program in Shandong University without the admission test.
Left without completing masters, for a PhD scholarship at University of Surrey.
Sept 2004 – June 2008: Shandong University – BSc. Electronic Information Engineering
Finished 4th in a class of 114, with an overall grade of 90.43%.
Developed programming skills in C, Java, VB, VHDL and assembling language.
Won the first class scholarship for each academic year (top 5%).
Won the National Inspirational Scholarship and the National Scholarship.
Second Prize in the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest.
Employment & Relevant Experiences
Since Mar 2022:
Research Scientist at Flawless AI, London
Oct 2020-Mar 2022:
Senior AI Algorithm Development Engineer, Huawei Cambridge Research Centre
Speech Research Engineer, Huawei Cambridge Research Centre
Oct 2013-Oct2020:
Research fellow in CVSSP, University of Surrey.
Contact
qingju2004@gmail.com