Tan LEE
Professor
BSc, MPhil, PhD (CUHK)

	tanlee@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
	+852 3943 8267
	Rm324, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, The Chinese Univerisity of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Resume of Career

Tan Lee received his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 1996. He is now a Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Associate Dean for Education in the Faculty of Engineering, CUHK. He is also the Associate Dean of Students at the SHHO College, CUHK.

Tan Lee has been working on speech and language related research for nearly 30 years. His research interests cover speech and audio signal processing, spoken language technology, deep learning models for speech and language,  speech technology for healthcare, paralinguistics in speech, neurological basis of speech and language, etc. Tan Lee is specialized in research and applications related to the Cantonese dialect spoken in Hong Kong. He led the effort on developing Cantonese-focused spoken language technologies that have been widely licensed for industrial applications. His work addressed many challenging problems in multi-lingual and cross-lingual speech processing, e.g., code-switching, low- or zero-resource languages. Tan Lee's recent works are featured by in-depth and substantive collaboration across a wide spectrum of disciplines. He is committed to apply signal processing and machine learning methods to atypical speech and language that are resulted from different kinds of human communication scenarios.

At CUHK, Tan Lee teaches courses on signals and systems, digital signal processing, speech processing and automatic speech recognition. He was invited to teach advanced courses for elite computer science students at Tsinghua University, and at the Globex Summer Programme of Peking University. Since 2019, Tan Lee has been teaching and supervising talented secondary-school students from the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education (HKAGE).

Honors and Awards

• Best student paper awards in ICASSP 2019 (as co-author and supervisor of the student author)
• Co-inventing ACEHearing^TM, the winner of the Bronze Award in Asian Innovation Awards 2011
• CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award in 2004.
• CUHK Faculty of Engineering's Exemplary Teaching Awards (12 times during 2001-2020)

Professional Services

• Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
• Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.
• Vice Chair, ISCA Special Interest Group of Chinese Spoken Language Processing
• General Co-Chair, the 11th and the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP)
• Area Chairs, Technical Programme Committees of INTERSPEEFCH 2014, 2016 and 2018