Jinchao Li

PhD Candidate [Resume]
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Email: jcli [at] se.cuhk.edu.hk
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Short Bio

Jinchao Li is a PhD candidate at the Human-Computer Communications Laboratory (HCCL) in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Helen Meng. He obtained a B.S. in Acoustics from Nanjing University in 2019, advised by Prof. Jing Lu. His research aims at human-centred AI in speech, language and healthcare, such as neurocognitive/mental disorder recognition, and diagnosis/treatment-oriented chatbots.

News

2023.01: Two papers (1, 2) accepted by ICASSP 2023.
2022-2023, Fist Term: Co-teaching “Conversational AI systems” (ASR part) with Prof. Meng, Prof. Wu and other nice colleagues in HCCL, SEEM, CUHK.
2022.09: Winner of two tasks in the “ACII Affective Vocal Bursts (A-VB)” competition organized by Hume AI.

Publications

Leveraging Pretrained Representations with Task-related Keywords for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection
Jinchao Li, Kaitao Song, Junan Li, Bo Zheng, Dongsheng Li, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng
IEEE ICASSP, 2023 [Paper] [Poster]

A Hierarchical Regression Chain Framework for Affective Vocal Burst Recognition
Jinchao Li, Xixin Wu, Kaitao Song, Dongsheng Li, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng
IEEE ICASSP, 2023 [Paper] [Poster] [Code]

Context-aware Multimodal Fusion for Emotion Recognition
Jinchao Li, Shuai Wang, Yang Chao, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng
IEEE Interspeech, 2022 [Paper] [Poster]

A Comparative Study of Acoustic and Linguistic Features Classification for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection
Jinchao Li, Jianwei Yu, Zi Ye, Simon Wong, Manwai Mak, Brian Mak, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng
IEEE ICASSP, 2021 [Paper] [Poster] [Code]

Development of The CUHK Elderly Speech Recognition System for Neurocognitive Disorder Detection Using the Dementiabank Corpus
Zi Ye, Shoukang Hu, Jinchao Li, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng, Jianwei Yu, Junhao Xu, Boyang Xue, Shansong Liu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng
IEEE ICASSP, 2021 [Paper] [Poster]

Method, Device and Electronic Equipment for Determining Sound Source Information based on Microphone Array
Jinchao Li, Changbao Zhu
CN110148422B, 2021 [Patent]

Research Experience

Neurocognitive Disorder (NCD) Detection

Advised by Prof. Helen Meng and Prof. Xunying Liu @HCCL, CUHK, Jul. 2020 - Now
- Speech and language based NCD detection: feature engineering, multimodality, and adaptation.
- Feature engineering: comparatively studied the NCD-related acoustic and linguistic features.
- Multimodality: efficient fusion of acoustic, linguistic and demographic modalities.
Neurocognitive Disorder (NCD) Detection

Advised by Dr. Dongsheng Li and Kaitao Song @MSRA Shanghai AI lab, Jun. 2022 - Oct. 2022
- Multimodal and multilingual speech-based disease detection.
- Machine learning interpretation.
Emotion Recognition(ER), Speech Enhancement(SE)

Advised by Dr Shuai Wang @Tencent Lightspeed & Quantum Studios, Oct. 2021 - May 2022
- Multimodal ER: context-aware multimodal fusion for the ER task.
- Real-time monaural SE: FullSubNet-based denoiser for ASR with fbank information.
Source Counting (SC)

Advised by Prof. Jing Lu @NJU and Mr. Changbao Zhu @Horizon Robotics, Dec. 2018 - Apr. 2019
- Binaural speech SC with similarity and correlation features in various acoustic scenarios.
- Honored the “Excellent Undergraduate Thesis” in NJU, 2019. Published a patent in 2021.

Honors & Awards

2022: Winner of two tasks in the ACII Affective Vocal Bursts (A-VB) competition
2019: Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Nanjing University
2018: Meritorious winner prize in American Mathematical Contest in Modeling
2017: Meritorious winner prize in National Mathematical Contest in Modeling, top 1.5% in China
2017: National Scholarship, awarded by the Ministry of Education in China
2016: First Prize, Elite Program Scholarship of Nanjing University

Miscellaneous

Teaching Experience

Co-teaching “Conversational AI systems” (ASR part) with Prof. Meng, Prof. Wu and other nice colleagues in HCCL, SEEM, CUHK.
Every term 2 during 2019-2023 in CUHK: teaching assistant in ENGG1120 (Linear Algebra for Engineers)

Volunteer and Leadership Experience

Worked as team leader in American Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2018.
Organized a rural education research in Jiangxi Province to investigate and call for more attention to rural children’s growth and education. Honored the “Top Ten Teams of Social Practice” in NJU, 2016.
Volunteered in psychological consulting with elderly people, folk-art teaching to primary school students, etc.

Computer Competencies

Python, MATLAB