Recent Professional Activities of Man-Wai Mak

Invited Talks

  1. Deep Learning-Based Spoken Language Processing for Biomedical Applications", National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Nov. 2023.

  2. "Supervised and Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Speaker Verification Across Languages", IEEE Workshop on Deep Learning, Hong Kong, April 2023.

  3. "Advanced Pooling Methods for Robust Speaker Verification", The Symposium on Speaker Recognition Research and Application (SRRW2022), Xinjiang, Nov. 2022. Video

  4. "Spoken Language Biomarkers for Dementia Detection", International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe 2022), Hong Kong, Aug. 2022.

  5. "Deep Learning for Speaker Recognition", IEEE Workshop on Deep Learning, Hong Kong, March. 2021. Video Presentation

  6. "Towards Domain-Invariant Speaker Embedding", Personalized Voice Trigger Challenge 2020, a satellite event of the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Language Processing (ISCSLP 2021), Jan. 2021.

  7. "Robust Speaker Verification: From Speaker Embeddings To End-To-End Models", Speech and Audio Signal Processing Workshop, Moscow Huawei Research Center, Moscow, 2 Nov 2020.

  8. "PolyU's Faculty of Engineering and Career in EIE", United Christian College (Kowloon East), 6 July 2020.

  9. "Domain-Invariant Speaker Embedding for Robust Speaker Recognition", Huawei Media Engineering Department, China, 9 April 2020. Video Presentation Part 1     Video Presentation Part 2

  10. "Deep Learning and Its Applications to Speaker Verification and ECG Classification", Northeastern University, China, 6 June 2019.

  11. "Deep Learning and Deep Neural Networks", Northeastern University, China, 5 June 2019.

  12. "Factor Analysis and I-Vectors", Northeastern University, China, 4 June 2019.

  13. "Deep Learning and Its Applications in Machine Perception", The Institution of Engineering and Technology, ICT Conference 2019, Hong Kong, 11 Apr 2019
     

  14. "Representation Learning for ECG and Speaker Recognition", Technological    Educational    Institute    of    Thessaloniki, Greece, 18 Dec 2018.

  15. "Deep Learning for Speech and ECG Classification", SYSU - AI/Big Data/Engineering in Medical Applications, Sun Yat Sen University, China, 22 June 2018.

  16. "Deep Learning: Concepts, Tools, and Applications", IEEE Hong Kong Section, Robotics and Automation/Control Systems Joint Chapter, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 16 March 2018.

  17. "How and Why AI will Revolutionize our Everyday Life", District-based STEM Lecture, Caritas Fanling Chan Chun Ha Secondary School, 9 Feb. 2018.

  18. "Machine Learning for Speaker Recognition and Bioinformatics", UTS/PolyU Workshop, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 24 Oct. 2017

  19. "Deep Learning and Its Applications", AI Lecture, IEEE China YP/WIE/SB Congress, Shenzhen University, 5 Aug. 2017.

  20. "Deep Learning: Theories, Applications and Tools", Workshop, Dept. of EIE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 28 June 2017.
  21. "Machine Learning for Speaker Recognition", Tutorial, Interspeech'16, San Fancisco, 8 Sept. 2016.

  22. "Speaker Verification under the Big Data Environment", Invitation to Innovative Technology Series, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, Hong Kong, Jan. 2016. Video: Part 1 Part 2

  23. "SNR-Aware PLDA Modeling for Robust Speaker Verification", SYSU-CMU-Joint Research Institute, China, Dec. 2015

  24. "Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Pattern Recognition", Workshop on Advanced Materials and Technologies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dec. 2015

  25. PLDA and Mixture of PLDA for Robust Speaker Verification,” National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, July 2014. “Utterance Partitioning for GMM-SVM Speaker Verification,” JAIST, Japan, Nov 2011. 

  26. “Utterance Partitioning for GMM-SVM Speaker Verification,” Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Dec 2011. "Machine Learning for Computational Biology", National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, Jan 2008. 

  27. "Supervised Feature Selection for Genomic Applications", Feng Chia University, Taiwan, Jan 2008.

Conference Organization and Others Activities
  1. Member, APAS Advisory Commitee, 2023-2025
  2. Member, Program Committee, APSIPA 2023
  3. Member, Program Committee, Odyssey 2022
  4. Member of Assessment Panel, Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) - Enterprise Support Scheme (ESS), 2021 – 2022.
  5. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE ASRU 2021
  6. Member, Technical Program Committee, Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021
  7. Admission Panel of the Technology Business Incubation, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), 2019 - 2021
  8. Tutorial Co-Chair, Interspeech 2020
  9. Member, Scientific Committee, Odyssey 2020
  10. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE AI for Industries (ai4i 2020)
  11. Technical Program Co-Chair, ISCSLP'2020
  12. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE ASRU 2019
  13. Member, Technical Program Committee, Interspeech 2019
  14. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2019 (ICTAI 2019)
  15. Technical Program Co-Chair, ISCSLP'18
  16. Member, Technical Program Committee, APSIPA ASC 2018
  17. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing 2018 (IEEE MLSP 2018)
  18. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2018 (ICTAI 2018)
  19. Member, Technical Program Committee, Interspeech'2018
  20. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2017 (ICTAI 2017)
  21. Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2016 (ICTAI 2016)
  22. Member, Technical Program Committee, ISCSLP’2016
  23. Publicity Co-Chair, ISCSLP'16
  24. Registration Co-Chair, APSIPA'15
  25. Member of Steering Committee (2015-2018), ISCSLP
  26. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE BIBM'2014
  27. Member, Technical Program Committee, ISCSLP’2014
  28. Area Chair, Interspeech 2014.
  29. Judge,  iCity My Dream App Competition 2013.
  30. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC 2013)
  31. Judge, Student Conference 2013 on the sub-theme “Innovations in Information Technology” for Gifted Students, Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education.
  32. Vice Chair, International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP’12), 2012
  33. Member, Technical Program Committee, ISCSLP’2012
  34. Technical Program Committee Member, ICMLC 2012.
  35. Technical Program Committee Member, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC2012)
  36. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, 2012 (TALE'2012)
  37. Technical Program Committee Member, COLING 2012 International Conference on Computational Linguistics
  38. Technical Program Committee Member, Fifth International Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine (IIBM 2012).
  39. Technical Program Committee Member, ICMLC 2011.
  40. Technical Program Committee Member, APSIPA'11.
  41. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE MLSP'11.
  42. The 4th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing and the 4th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, 2011
  43. Fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine (IIBM 2011)
  44. Technical Program Committee Member, ISCSLP'10
  45. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE MLSP'10.
  46. Technical Program Committee Member, APSIPA'10.
  47. Technical Program Committee Member, ICMLC 2010.
  48. Technical Program Committee Member, APSIPA'09.
  49. Technical Program Committee Member, ICMLC 2009.
  50. Technical Program Committee Member, MLSP'09.
  51. Technical Committee Member, IEEE Computation Intelligence Society, Intelligent Systems Applications, 2008-present.
  52. Technical Program Committee Member, ISCSLP'08
  53. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE MLSP'08.  
  54. Technical Program Committee Member, ICMLC 2008
  55. Technical Committee Member, Machine Learning for Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2005-2007.
  56. Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 Int. Sym. on Intelligent Signal Processing (ISPACS'2007)
  57. Track Co-Chair, Pacific Conference on Multimedia (PCM'07)
  58. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2007)
  59. Technical Program Member, 2007 IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
  60. Technical Program Committee Member, ICMLC 2007
  61. Technical Program Committee Member, 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image and Signal Processing
  62. Technical Program Committee Member, ISCSLP'2006.
  63. Technical Program Committee Member, TENCON'2006.
  64. Technical Program Member, 2005 IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
  65. Technical Program Member, 2006 IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
  66. Technical Program Member, ICONIP’06
  67. Technical Program Member, ICONIP’04
  68. Organizer and Speaker, Workshop on Microarray Bioinformatics, 2005.
  69. Chairman, Bioinformatics Workshop (in ICONIP'06), 2006.
  70. Organizing Committee Chair, ICONIP’06
  71. Chairman, IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter, 2004.
  72. Treasurer, IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter, since 2002.
  73. Secretary, IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter, since 1998.
  74. Executive Committee member, IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter, since 1995.
  75. Registration Chair, Int. Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2004.
  76. Local Arrangement Chair, Int. Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, 2004.
  77. Member of Program Committee, Int. Conf. on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2004.
  78. External Examiner for the Master of Engineering in Telecommunications, Multimedia University, Malaysia, 2004. 
  79. Registration Chair, Int. Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, 2001
  80. Secretary, Joint 1997 Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference and International Computer Science Conference, December 1997. 
  81. Chairman, Colloquium on Software Engineering Practice, 5 December 1997, Hong Kong. 
  82. Secretary, International Computer Science Congress 1999.
  83. Reviewer of 
    • Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
    • HKSAR CERG Proposals
    • IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks
    • Neural Processing Letters
    • Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence
    • Neural Computing and Applications
    • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
    • Journal of Applied Signal Processing
    • IEEE Trans. on SMC
    • Neurocomputing
    • Neural Processing Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
    • Information Fusion
    • Speech Communication
    • Soft Computing
    • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research
    • ETRI Journal
    • Pattern Analysis & Applications Journal
    • International Journal of Systems Science
    • IET Signal Processing
    • Journal of Far East Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
    • IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    • IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
    • Information Science
    • Computer Vision and Image Understanding
    • Pattern Recognition Letters
    • Connection Science
    • International Journal of Data Mining in Bioinformatics
    • Protein & Peptide Letters
    • Computer Speech and Language
    • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
    • BBA - Proteins and Proteomics
    • Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
    • IEEE Trans. on Multimedia
    • Analytical Biochemistry
    • BMC Bioinformatics
    • IEEE Trans. on Nanobioscience
    • PLoS ONE
    • Computers in Biology and Medicine
    • Molecular BioSystems
    • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2016
    • Scientific Reports, 2016
    • Integrative Biology, 2017
    • Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2017, 2019
    • Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2017
    • Biochimie, 2017
    • Bioengineered, 2017
    • APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, 2018
    • Bioinformatics, 2018
    • Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2018
    • IEEE Access, 2018, 2019
    • Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 2019
    • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, since 2016
    • Expert Systems, 2019
    • Applied Sciences, 2019
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2020
    • IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, 2020
    • Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020, 2021
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2020
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, since 2020
    • IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2020
    • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2021
    • IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
    • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2022
    • Pattern Recognition, 2016-2022
    • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022
    • Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022
    • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2022
    • Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2022
    • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2023

  84. Guest Editor of
    • International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2015
    • Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 2015
    • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, 2008
    • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, 2007
  85. Associate Editor of
    • IEEE Trans. on Speech and Language Processing
    • Journal of Signal Processing Systems
    • Advances in Artificial Neural Systems
    • IEEE Biometrics Compendium
  86. External Examiner of
    • PhD Thesis, CUHK (Dept. of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management), Hong Kong, 2022
    • PhD Thesis, CityU (Dept. of Electronic Engineering), Hong Kong, 2020
    • PhD Thesis, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2020
    • PhD Thesis, CUHK (Dept. of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management), Hong Kong, 2019
    • PhD Thesis, University of Eastern Finland, Finland, 2018
    • PhD Thesis, CityU (Dept. of Electronic Engineering), Hong Kong, 2017
    • MPhil Thesis, HKU (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Hong Kong, 2016
    • PhD Thesis, CUHK (Dept. of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management), Hong Kong, 2016
    • PhD Thesis, CUHK (Dept. of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management), Hong Kong, 2016
    • PhD Thesis, CityU (Dept. of Electronic Engineering), Hong Kong, 2016
    • PhD Thesis, CityU (Dept. of Electronic Engineering), Hong Kong, 2015
    • Master Theses, National Jiaotong University, Taiwan, 2014
    • PhD Thesis, CityU (Dept. of Electronic Engineering), Hong Kong, 2013
    • PhD Thesis, CityU (Dept. of Computer Science), Hong Kong, 2012
    • PhD Thesis, CityU (Dept. of Electronic Engineering.), Hong Kong, 2012 
    • PhD Thesis, HKU (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Hong Kong, 2012
    • PhD Thesis, CUHK, Hong Kong, 2011
    • MPhil Thesis, CityU, Hong Kong, July, 2011
    • MPhil Thesis, HKU, Hong Kong, Nov. 2011
    • MPhil Thesis, HKU, Hong Kong, 2010
    • MPhil Thesis, CUHK, Hong Kong
    • Master Thesis, Multimedia University, Malaysia

M.W. Mak's Homepage

http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~mwmak/mypage.htm