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Jun Wang, Ph.D. Research Scientist A119, Callier Center for Communication Disorders University of Texas at Dallas 1966 Inwood Rd. Dallas, TX 75235 Office: (214)905-3156 Email: wangjun AT utdallas.edu (replace ' AT ' with '@') |
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I earned my PhD degree in computer science with a specialty on speech production from University of Nebraska - Lincoln in December 2011, co-advised by Dr. Jordan R. Green (communication disorders) and Dr. Ashok Samal (computer science). I was then a postdoctoral research associate in the Neurogenetic Communication Disorders Consortium, a joint program between University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska - Lincoln from January to August 2012 before I joined UTD Callier Center.
Silent speech recognition, articulation-to-speech synthesis
Normal and disordered speech motor control (e.g., due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , ALS)
Brain activity signal analysis for communication disorders
Tongue motion tracking devices
Electromagnetic Articulograph (EMA), AG501, Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH, Germany
Wave Speech Research System, Northern Digital Inc., Canada
Selected Publications
Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Yunusova, Y. (2013). Articulatory distinctiveness of vowels and consonants: A data-driven approach, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (In press).
Green, J. R., Wang, J., Wilson, D. L. (2013). SMASH: A tool for articulatory data processing and analysis, Interspeech, Lyon, France (In press).
Wang, J., Green, J. R., & Samal, A. (2013). Individual articulator's contribution to phoneme production, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vancouver, Canada (In press).
Wang, J., Samal, A., Green, J. R., & Rudzicz, F. (2012). Whole-word recognition from articulatory movements for silent speech interfaces, Interspeech, Portland, OR.
Wang, J., Samal, A., Green, J. R., & Rudzicz, F. (2012). Sentence recognition from articulatory movements for silent speech interfaces, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (pp. 4985-4988), Kyoto, Japan.
Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Greenwood, L., Wang, J., Pattee, G. L., & Zinman, L. (2012). Tongue movements and their acoustic consequences in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica (International Journal of Phoniatrics, Speech Therapy and Communication Pathology), 64(2):94-102.
Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Marx, D. B. (2011). Quantifying articulatory distinctiveness of vowels, Interspeech (pp. 277-280), Florence, Italy.
Yunusova Y., Green J.R., Wang J., Pattee G., & Zinman L. (2011). A protocol for comprehensive assessment of bulbar (speech) dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 48.
Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. D. (2010). Vowel recognition from continuous articulatory movements for speaker-dependent applications, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (pp. 1-7), Gold Coast, Australia.
Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. D. (2009). Vowel recognition from articulatory position time-series data, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (pp. 1-7), Omaha, United States.
Abstracts / Conference Presentations
Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., Yunusova, Y., Kuruvilla, M. S., Pattee, G. L., & Boney, T. (2012). Articulatory and acoustic vowel space changes in early ALS, ASHA Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.
Green, J. R., Yunusova, Y., Pattee, G., Zinman, L., Kuruvilla, M., Wang, J., & Falikowski, M. (2012). Bulbar motor deterioration in ALS, the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
Wiegert, R. G., Kuruvilla, M. S., Hogan, T. P., Wang, J., & Green, J. R. (2012). Effect of phoneme frequency and age of acquisition on tongue movement variability. University of Nebraska - Lincoln Research Fair.
Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., Yunusova, Y., & Kuruvilla, M. S. (2012). Stage-based progression of articulatory performances in early ALS, Conference on Motor Speech, Santa Rosa, CA.
Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. (2010). Recognizing Continuously Produced Vowels from Articulatory Movements, Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA.
Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Wang, J., & Lingham, A. (2010). Jerk-cost and other motor indices of disease progression in ALS, Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA.
Wang, J., Samal, A., Green, J. R., & Carrell, T. D. (2009). Vowel recognition from articulatory position time-series data, the 157th Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, Portland, OR.
Awards
International Travel Award, College of Education and Human Sciences, UNL, 2011
Research Mentoring Pair Travel Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), 2009
Dohrmann Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, UNL, 2006-07
Professional Memberships and Services
Member, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Member, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Ad Hoc reviewer: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR); Speech Communication
Fun
Our ALS research was highlighted on the huge screen inside the Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE before the Nebraska Husker's historic game hosting Ohio State Buckeyes, Oct 08, 2011.