Honor

  • The 59th Ten Outstanding Young Person Award of Taiwan (中華民國第五十九屆十大傑出青年)
  • AWS ML Research Award (2020)
  • Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (吳大猷先生紀念獎), Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2019)
    • Recognition of outstanding achievements in Intelligence Computing
  • Salesforce Research Deep Learning Grant (2019)
  • Young Scholar Innovation Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2019)
  • Young Scholar Fellowship, Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2018)
  • Outstanding Young Engineer Award, The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (2018)
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, National Taiwan University (2018)
    • Only the top 1% of professors can be entitled
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, National Taiwan University (2017)
  • Distinguished Young Scholar Award, Computer Society of the Republic of China (2017)
  • The co-authoring papers receiving the following honor:
    • Best Student Paper Award, the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA (September 2018) (3 out of 700)
    • One of the 12 finalists for the Best Student Paper Award, the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA (September 2018)
    • One of the 12 finalists for the Best Student Paper Award, the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA (September 2016)
    • One of the 12 finalists for the Best Student Paper Award, the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA (September 2013)
    • One of the 10 finalists for the Best Student Paper Award, the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA (September 2012)
    • Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant (the only recipient), the 37th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE (March 2012)
    • One of the 5 finalists for the Best Student Paper Award, the 9th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, IEEE (December 2011)
    • A figure from a journal paper selected to appear on the cover of the issue, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol.22, no.5 (May 2014)
    • A figure from a journal paper selected to appear on the cover of the issue, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol.22, no.1 (January 2014)
    • Two papersiconicon published in March 2010 cited in textbook published in 2011
      • Textbook: G. Tur and R. DeMori, "Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech", John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011, Chapter 15, Speech Retrieval. The two papers are cited as reference numbers 31 and 18 respectively on pp. 442 – 443 out of a total of 68 references of the chapter.
  • The theses supervised receiving the following honor:
    • Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) (2019)
    • Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) (2018)
  • A figure from an overview article selected to appear on the cover of the issue, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol.23, no.9 (Sept. 2015)
  • Grantee, Overseas Postdoctoral Program for Frontier Technologies, National Science Council of Taiwan (June 2013)
    • A total of 13 grantees from all technology areas and whole Taiwan
  • Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award, The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) (September 2012)
  • National Taiwan University Presidential Award (GPA in top 5% in the department)
    • Two times: 2004 Fall (5th out of roughly 200), 2007 Spring (2nd out of roughly 200)
  • National Taiwan University Advanced Speech Technologies Scholarship (2008, 2009, 2010)