Achievements

Selected Awards

Finalist, Rising Star (Academics), STEM Women in Color Award
2025
Best poster award, PhD Forum, AJCAI 2024
2024
Best paper award, ACII 2023
2023
Top 3% paper award, ICASSP 2023
2023
Shortlisted candidate for Asian Dean's Forum 2022 The Rising Stars - Women in Engineering
2022
Distinguished reviewer award for IEEE Transactions in Affective Computing
2019
Outstanding reviewer award for Expert Systems With Applications Elsevier
2018
IEEE Early Career Writing Retreat Grant
2019
Tuition Fee Scholarship (TFS) plus a Research Stipend from UNSW
2014-2018
Top-up Scholarship from Data 61, CSIRO, Australia
2014-2018
ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Grant, Interspeech, Stockholm
2017
Highly Commended Presentation (final 6 presentations) of Postgraduate Research Symposium, UNSW
2017
2nd rank in Audio, Video Emotion Challenge (AVEC) workshop, ACM Multimedia
2015
First-Class Prize, Underwater Signal Technology Competition, NWPU
2013
Excellent Bachelor Graduation Thesis Award of NWPU
2012

Grant

Emotional Speech Generation for Intelligent Dialogue Systems
Wuhan University Collaborative Seed Grant — ¥50K
2025
Multimodal LLMs for Mobile Health
OpenAI Researcher Access Grant — $16K
2024
Speech LLMs for Health
Google Cloud Research Credits — $5K
2024

Press

Large Language Models for Small Languages
PARADISEC Blog 2025
Remote monitoring successfully tracks Covid-19 progression over time
University of Cambridge 2022
COVID-19 detection via audio
新智元 2022
Accelerating Research Impact with Open Technologies
EngBio IRC 2022
Coronavirus: Covid-19 detecting apps face teething problems
BBC 2020
What is a 'persistent cough' and what should I do if I have it?
The Guardian 2020

Invited Talks

The Future of Voice: Building Empathetic, Adaptive, and Efficient Generative AI for Speech
Commonwealth Bank AI Frontiers Series
2025
Human-centered AI for Mobile Health Sensing and Computing
Medical AI Symposium, Hokkaido University
2025
Unlocking the Potential of Audio: From Acoustic Sensing to Adaptive Speech Intelligence
RIKEN-AIP-Melbourne workshop
2025
Advancing Mobile Health via Audio and Physiological Computing in the Era of Generative AI
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
2025
Advancing Mobile Health via Audio and Physiological Computing in the Era of Generative AI
School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
2025
Machine learning for mobile health
School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia
2024
AI for mobile health
School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia
2024
Machine learning for mobile health via audio
RMIT, Australia
2023
Machine learning for mobile health via audio
South China Normal University, China
2023
COVID-19 Disease Progression Prediction and Forecasting via Audio: A Longitudinal Study
Women@CL at the University of Cambridge, UK
2022
Computational modeling of ambiguous emotion
AFAR Lab at the University of Cambridge
2022
Machine Learning in Mobile Health via Audio: bridging the gap between AI and healthcare
UCLIC at the University College London
2022
Speech-based Emotion Prediction
Tsinghua University
2020