CPII's team in spoken language research participated in the SciTech Challenge 2021 and won the championship with the entry entitled "Dysarthric Speech Reconstruction". The goal of our work is to leverage AI-enabled speech technologies to help people with difficulty in pronouncing words due to a neuromotor disorder -- a condition known as dysarthria. Dysarthria has a number of causes, including stroke, Parkinsons, brain injuries, etc. The individual needs to devote much effort to speaking and yet dysarthric speech often has reduced intelligibility for listeners. In order to overcome reduced communicative…

Population ageing is a global concern. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people aged over 60 will nearly double to make up 22% of the world’s population by 2050, while the number of Hong Kong people aged over 65 will rise to make up 35% of the local population. Neurocognitive disorders (NCD), which include various types of dementia, are particularly prominent in elderly people. As spoken language can be easily captured (even remotely) and enables sensitive cognitive assessments, it can be used for early NCD diagnoses.…

IEEE Information Theory Society announced that Professor Raymond Yeung will be awarded the 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award recognizes consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. ​ Source from: https://www.itsoc.org/honors/claude-e-shannon-award https://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/lnews/21-07-20.shtml https://www.itsoc.org/news/yeung-named-2022-claude-e-shannon-award-winner

Professor Raymond Yeung has been awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in recognition of his fundamental contributions to information theory and pioneering network coding and its applications. Source from: https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/ieee_awards/2021-ieee-honors-ieee-richard-w-hamming-medal-raymond-w-yeung