Academic Activities

Journal Editorship

  • Leading guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

Local Organisation Chair

  • The 8th International AAAC Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), IEEE, Cambridge, UK, 03.-06.09.2019.

Organisations

  1. Special Issue: “Adversarial Learning in Computational Intelligence”, Zixing Zhang, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Hung-Yi Lee, Björn Schuller, in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics on Computational Intelligence, 2019.

  2. Special Session: “Deep Learning for Computational Paralinguistics”, Zixing Zhang, Björn Schuller, Shrikanth Narayanan, in 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, Calgary, AB, Canada, 22-27.04.2018.

  3. Special Session: “Utilising Big Unlabelled and Unmatched Data for Affective Computing”, Hesam Sagha, Zixing Zhang, Florian Metze, Björn Schuller, in 7th International AAAC Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2017 (ACII 2017), IEEE/AAAC, San Antonio, TX, USA, 23-26.10.2017.

Session Chairs

  1. Session Chair of “Deception, Personality, and Culture Attribute”, INTERSPEECH, Hyderabad, India, 03.09.2018

  2. Session Chair of “Deep Learning for Computational Paralinguistics”, in 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, Calgary, AB, Canada, 22-27.04.2018.

  3. Session Chair of “Utilising Big Unlabelled and Unmatched Data for Affective Computing”, in 7th International AAAC Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2017 (ACII 2017), IEEE/AAAC, San Antonio, TX, USA, 23-26.10.2017.

Program Committee Members

  1. Program committee member of the 9th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenges (AVEC) and Workshop@ACMMultimedia, Nice, France, 21.10.2019.

  2. Program committee member of the ACII, Cambridge, UK, 2019. { Technical program committee member of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), Nice, France, 2019. { Technical program committee member of the INTERSPEECH, Graz, Austria, 15-19.09, 2019.

  3. Program committee member of the 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Istanbul, Turkey, 20-25.08.2019.

  4. Program committee member of the 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenges (AVEC) and Workshop@ACMMultimedia, Seoul, Korea, 22-26.10.2018

  5. Technical program committee member of INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India, 2–6.09.2018

  6. Program committee member of SPWID 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems, IARIA, Barcelona, Spain, 22-26.07.2018

  7. Program committee member of the 2nd International Workshop on Automatic Sentiment Analysis (WASA) in the Wild @ ACII, IEEE, San Antonio, Tx, 23-27.10.2017

  8. Technical program committee member of AMBIENT 2017, The Seventh International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies, IARIA, Barcelona, Spain, 12-16.11.2017

  9. Program committee member of the 5th International AAAC Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2015 (ACII 2015), IEEE/AAAC, Xi’an, China, 21-24.09.2015

Invited Talks

  1. Zixing Zhang: "Deep Speech Emotion Recognition'', Apple, cupertino, CA, USA, 21.06.2019.

  2. Zixing Zhang: "Developing Robust Speech Recognition and Efficient Emotion Analysis Systems'', Google, London, UK, 07.05.2019.

  3. Zixing Zhang: "Artificial Communication Intelligence 2.0 -- The Rise of Socio-Emotional Assistants?'', Artificial Intelligence Summit for Customer-Facing Functions, London, UK, 07.03.2019.

  4. Zixing Zhang: "Developing Personalised and Empathic Dialogue Systems: A Deep Understanding behind the Voice'', Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA, 12.02.2019.

  5. Zixing Zhang: "Big Data \& Deep Learning: Faciliating Voice-Emotional Machine in Real-Life Applications'', Changsha, China, 27.12.2017.

  6. Zixing Zhang: "Emotional Machine Listening'', Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhongshan, China, 22.12.2017.

  7. Zixing Zhang: "Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Models for De-reverberation in Distant Talk ASR'', Nuance, Aachen, Germany, 05.12.2013.

  8. Zixing Zhang: "Introduction of Emotional Speech Databases'', Nuance, Aachen, Germany, 16.09.2013.

  9. Zixing Zhang: "Acoustic Model Enhancement for Reverberated and Noisy Speech Enhancement and Labelled-Data-Scarce Speech Emotion Recognition'', Nuance, Aachen, Germany, 15.08.2013.

  10. Zixing Zhang: "Cooperative Learning in Affective Computing'', London-Munich Affective & Behavioural Computing Student and Post-doc Summit, Imperial College London, London, UK, 01.05.2013.

Reviews

Grant Review

  1. Proposal Reviewer The Icelandic Centre for Research - RANNÍS, The Icelandic Research Fund, Iceland, since 2018

Journal Reviews

  1. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, since 2019, (IF: 6.688 (2018))

  2. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, since 2019

  3. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE, since 2019, (IF: 8.415 (2018))

  4. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE, since 2018, (IF: 3.850 (2017))

  5. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE, since 2018, (IF: 7.172 (2017))

  6. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE, since 2018, (IF: 2.563 (2017))

  7. IEEE Access, IEEE, since 2018, (IF: 3.244 (2016))

  8. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE, since 2017, (If: 2.491 (2016))

  9. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE, since 2012, (IF: 3.149 (2016))

  10. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE, since 2013, (IF: 7.384 (2016))

  11. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE, since 2013, (IF: 6.108 (2016))

  12. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE, since 2017, (IF: 3.509 (2016))

  13. IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE, since 2013, (IF: 2.374 (2016))

  14. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, ACM, since 2016 (IF: 2.250 (2016))

  15. Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, since 2018 (IF: 3.907 (2017))

  16. Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, since 2017 (IF: 1.570 (2016))

  17. Computational Speech and Language, Elsevier, since 2015 (IF: 1.900 (2016))

  18. Speech Communication, Elsevier, since 2015 (IF: 1.768 (2016))

  19. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, since 2017 (IF: 3.997 (2016))

  20. Computers in Human Behavior, Elsevier, since 2017 (IF: 3.435 (2016))

  21. Pattern Recognition Letter, Elsevier, since 2017 (IF: 1.995 (2016))

  22. Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier, since 2017 (IF: 2.337 (2016))

  23. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, S Hirzel, Verlag, since 2016, (IF: 1.119 (2016))

  24. Applied Sciences, MDPI AG, since 2017 (IF: 1.679 (2016))

  25. Symmetry, MDPI AG, since 2018 (IF: 1.256 (2017))

  26. Sensors, MDPI AG, since 2013, (IF: 2.677 (2016))

Conference Reviews

  1. The 9th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenges (AVEC) and Workshop@ACM-Multimedia, Nice, France, 2019

  2. The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Cambridge, UK, 2019.

  3. The 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), Nice, France, 2019.

  4. The INTERSPEECH, Graz, Austria, 15-19.09, 2019. { The 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Istanbul, Turkey, 20-25.08.2019.

  5. IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, 2019

  6. The Workshop and Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2018), Surrey, UK, 2018

  7. The 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenges (AVEC) and Workshop@ACM-Multimedia, Seoul, Korea, 2018

  8. The INTERSPEECH, Hyderabad, India, 2018

  9. IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, 2018

  10. AMBIENT 2017, The Seventh International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies, IARIA, Barcelona, Spain, 2017

  11. The 2nd International Workshop on Automatic Sentiment Analysis (WASA) in the Wild @ ACII, San Antonio, Tx, 2017

  12. The INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017

  13. The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), San Antonio, Tx, 2017

  14. The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenges (AVEC) and Workshop@ACM-Multimedia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016

  15. The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Xi’an, China, 2015

  16. The European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, 2015

  17. The European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lisbon, Portugal, 2014

  18. The International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2013), Beijing, China, 2013

  19. The ITG Conference on Speech Communication, Germany, 2012

  20. The International Conference on Computer & Communication Technology (ICCCT 2013), IEEE, Allahabad, India, 2013