Lecturer
(Assistant Professor)

I am a Lecturer in Applied Data Science and Signal Processing at QMUL. I am a member of the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) and Centre for Intelligent Sensing (CIS), a member of Institute of Coding (IoC), and an associate member of the Centre for Advanced Robotics (ARQ). I am co-leading the Machine Listening Lab. Previously I was a Postdoc at QMUL (2014-17) and a Postdoc at University of Sussex (2017-18), and was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of Oldenburg Germany (2011-13). I obtained my PhD in Signal Processing at Dalian University of Technology China (2010).

I am FHEA (Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK). I am Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS, and Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal. I am Early Career Champion on AI&Data of UK Acoustics Network. I am IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee (AASP TC) Member.

My research focuses on audio and visual signal processing, robotic perception and machine learning. I developed microphone array techniques for sound enhancement, source localizaiton and blind source separtation. I developed audio-visual signal processing techniques for acoustic sensing from flying robots (mini-drones). I applied machine learning techniques to human activity and context recogntiion from wearable sensors (motion, GPS, sound and image).

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PUBLICATION (full list...)

05/2026: IEEE Signal Processing Letters paper accepted on drone audition and speech enhancement

05/2026: 2 papers accepted at Quiet Drones 2026 on drone audition

05/2026: 2 papers accepted at AES AVARIG on spatial audio

04/2026: Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper accepted on drone audition and bioacoustic monitoring

04/2026: Environmental Management paper accepted on ecology and biodiversity indicator

03/2026: 1 paper accepted at CVPR 2026 on speech emotion recognition

01/2026: IEEE Trans Multimedia paper accepted on speech emotion recognition

11/2025: 1 paper accepted at CMMR2025 on music source separation

10/2025: 2 papers accepted at at Ubicomp 2025 HASCA on the SHL challenges

08/2025: Journal of Hypertension paper accepted on heart disease detection from ECG data

09/2024: 1 paper accepted at EMNLP 2024 surveying recent advances on topic segmentation

07/2024: 1 paper accepted at Ubicomp 2024 HASCA on the SHL challenge

06/2024: 1 paper accepted at ICME 2024 on speech emotion recognition

04/2024: 1 paper accepted at Odyssey 2024 on the 1st Place Solution to Odyssey Emotion Recognition Challenge Task1

02/2024: 1 paper accepted at LREC-COLING 2024 on topic segmentation

12/2023: Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper accepted on drone audition and bioacoustic monitoring

09/2023: PeerJ paper accepted on topic segmentation

08/2023: 1 paper accepted at AES 155th Convention on spatial audio

07/2023: 1 paper accepted at Ubicomp 2023 HASCA on the SHL challenge

07/2023: 1 paper accepted at RANLP 2023 on topic segmentation

06/2023: 1 paper accepted at ACII 2023 on audio-visual emotion recognition

06/2023: EHJ-Digital Health paper accepted on heart disease detection from ECG data

05/2023: Speech Communication paper accepted on data augmented speech separation

04/2023: IEEE Sensor paper accepted on hardware design for drone audition

03/2023: 1 paper accepted at ICMR 2023 on multimodal topic segmentation (acceptance rate 15%)

03/2023: IEEE Access paper accepted on single-channel deep learning models for speech enhancement on drones

09/2022: IEEE Sensor paper accepted on deep learning based acoustic sensing from flying drones

05/2022: 1 paper accepted at Quiet Drones 2022

11/2021: 1 chatper accepted at Springer Book "Generative Adversarial Learning"

08/2021: Survey paper on three year SHL 2018-2020 accepted at Frontiers in Computer Science

07/2021: 1 paper accepted at Ubicomp 2021 HASCA on the SHL challenge

07/2021: 1 paper accepted at MMSP 2021 on deep speech separation

08/2020: IEEE TASLP paper accepted on blind source separation and ego-noise reduction

08/2020: IEEE TETCI paper accepted on deep learning based ego-noise reduction

07/2020: 1 paper accepted at Ubicomp 2020 HASCA on the SHL challenge

04/2020: IEEE Sensor paper accepted on multimodal smartphone sensing (motion + audio + visual)

07/2019: 1 paper accepted at Ubicomp 2019 HASCA on the SHL challenge

06/2019: 1 paper accepted at IROS 2019 on drone sound dataset

05/2019: 2 chatpers accepted at Springer Book "Human Activity Sensing"

03/2019: 1 paper accepted at ABC 2019 on vision based transportation mode recognition

02/2019: ICASSP paper accepted on sound-based transportation mode recognition

01/2019: IEEE ACCESS paper accepted on SHL baseline performance

12/2018: 1 EU patent filed on smartphone sensing

07/2018: IEEE ACCESS paper accepted on SHL dataset

07/2018: 3 papers accepted at Ubicomp 2018 on human activity recognition

06/2018: 1 paper accepted at IROS 2018 on acoustic source tracking on drones

04/2018: IEEE TASLP paper accepted on pseudo-determined blind source separation

03/2018: IEEE Sensor paper accepted on acoustic sensing on drones

ACTIVITY

07/2026: Chairing session "UAV noise modeling" at Quiet Drones 2026 at Delft, Netherlands

03/2026: Attending Noise Network Plus General Assembly at Manchester

01/2026: Appointed as AI & Digital Working Group Co-Chair at EPSRC Noise Network Plus

11/2025: Area Chair on Medical and Bioacoustics and at ICASSP 2026

11/2024: Invited talk on "Intelligent sound sensing and AI" for Wokingham Science with Schools

09/2024: Chairing session "Drone Audition" at Quiet Drones 2024 at Manchester

09/2024: Attending UKAN+ Annual Meeting at Manchester

06/2023: Chairing session "Audio for Multimedia and Multimodal Processing" at ICASSP 2023

03/2023: Talk at The Art of Being an Acoustician

03/2023: Talk on drone audition at DERI Seminar

12/2022: Guest editing Special Issue "Deep Learning Based Speech Enhancement Technology" at Applied Sciences

11/2022: Elected as IEEE AASP Technical Committee member

08/2022: Attending ISWC TPC meeting

07/2022: Attending UKAN+ Annual Meeting at Manchester

06/2022: Attending Quiet Drones 2022

01/2022: Outstanding Article Award by Fronteris in Computer Science

12/2021: Appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal

12/2021: Chairing the CIS Winter School 2021

12/2021: Chairing the first UKAN+ Connecting SIGs Event (Virtual Event)

09/2021: Talk on SHL Challenge 2021 at Ubicomp 2021(Virtual Event)

09/2021: Chairing the "Acoustic Sensing" and "Privacy" session at UbiComp 2021

08/2021: Awarded the HEA Fellowship

04/2021: Kick-off meeting of the SHL Challenge 2021 (to be held at Ubicomp 2021, Mexico)

03/2021: Talk at UK Acoustic Network (UKAN) Webinar

09/2020: Talk on SHL Challenge 2020 at Ubicomp 2020, Mexico (Virtual Event)

09/2020: Chairing the Multimodal AI session of the CIS Summer School 2020

03/2020: Kick-off meeting of the SHL Challenge 2020 (to be held at Ubicomp 2020, Mexico)

11/2019: Talk at 2nd Bristol Drone Cinematography workshop at Bristol University

11/2019: Talk at IROS 2019 at Macau China

09/2019: Talk on SHL Challenge 2019 at Ubicomp 2019, London

09/2019: Chairing the Sound Sensing & AI session and the panel discussion of the CIS Summer School 2019

05/2019: Attending ICASSP 2019 at Brighton

04/2019: Kick-off meeting of the SHL Challenge 2019 (to be held at Ubicomp 2019, London)

03/2019: Attending IoC Annual Conference 2019 at Manchester

01/2019: Talk at Yonsei-QMUL Workshop, at QMUL

10/2018: Talk on SHL Challenge at Ubicomp 2018, Singapore

10/2018: Talk at IROS 2018 at Madrid

10/2018: Appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS

09/2018: Appointed as Lecturer at QMUL

DATASET & CODE

10/2020: Training and Tesing dataset for the SHL recognition challenge 2020 available

11/2019: AVQ (the first audio-visual sensing dataset from a multi-rotor drone) is released

10/2019: Training and Tesing dataset for the SHL recognition challenge 2019 available

12/2018: SHL dataset partly available

10/2018: Training and Tesing dataset for the SHL recognition challenge available