BioASP

Academia Sinica/CITI

Yu Tsao/Yu Tsao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Researcher with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, where he engaged in research and product development in automatic speech recognition for multilingual speech-to-speech translation. He is currently a Research Fellow (Professor) and Deputy Director with the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He is also a Jointly Appointed Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. His research interests include assistive oral communication technologies, audio coding, and bio-signal processing. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING and IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS. He received the Academia Sinica Career Development Award in 2017, National Innovation Awards in 2018-2021, Future Tech Breakthrough Award 2019, and Outstanding Elite Award, Chung Hwa Rotary Educational Foundation 2019–2020.

The Bio-ASP Lab (Biomedical Acoustic Signal Processing Lab) in CITI, Academia Sinica was founded in November, 2011. We are dedicated to developing novel acoustic signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms and apply them to biomedical and biology related tasks. The main research focuses include five parts: (1) AI for assistive speech communication technologies, (2) Deep learning based speech signal processing, (3) Multi-modal speech signal processing; (4) Voice-based forensics; (5) Soundscape information retrieval. So far, Bio-ASP Lab has published more than 52 journal papers and 120 international conference papers. Among them, the Bio-ASP Lab received Best Poster Presentation Award in IEEE MIT URTC 2017, Poster Presentation Award in APSIPA 2017, Best Paper Award in ROCLING 2017, Excellent Paper Award in TAAI 2012. Meanwhile, an Interspeech 2014 paper received the best paper award nomination, four papers have received the ISCA travel grant awards, and one paper received the ICML travel grant. A co-advised PhD student received the PhD Thesis Award by ACLCLP in 2018. The Bio-ASP Lab also received the Career Development Award, Academia Sinica in 2017, and National Innovation Award in 2018.

yu.tsao@citi.sinica.edu.tw