Speech and Language Processing, Affective Computing, Human Computer Interaction

Sept. 2007--July 2012, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IACAS), PhD Degree
Sept. 2003--July 2007, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), BS Degree

2012 to now, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

Nov. 2012- Dec. 2012, Academic visits, The University of Tokyo, Japan
May  2014- Sept. 2014, Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Technical Committee of Artificial Psychology and Artificial Emotion of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)， General Secretary

Standing organization of National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC), Member

Technical Committee of Human Computer Interaction of China Society of Image and Graphics, Member

1. Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Wei Lai, Xiaoying Xu, Quantitative intonation modeling of interrogative sentences for Mandarin Speech Synthesis, Speech communication, 2017.

2. Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Keikichi Hirose, Xiaoying Xu, Wei Lai, Hierarchical stress modeling and generation in mandarin for expressive Text-to-Speech, Speech communication, 2015, Vol. 72，pp.59-73.

3. Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Linlin Chao,Wei Bao, Yazhu Liu, CHEAVD: a Chinese natural emotional audio–visual database, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2016, DOI: 10.1007/s12652-016-0406-z

4. Ya Li, Tao J, Schuller B, Shan S, Jiang D, Jia J (2016) MEC 2016: The multimodal emotion recognition challenge of CCPR 2016. In: Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition (CCPR), Chengdu, China, pp. 667-678.

5. Hao Che,Ya Li*,Jianhua Tao,Zhengqi Wen, "Investigating Effect of Rich Syntactic Features on Mandarin Prosodic Phrase Boundaries Prediction" Journal of Signal Processing Systems,2016, 82(2):263-271.

6. Wei Lai, Jiahong Yuan, Ya Li, Xiaoying Xu, Mark Liberman, The rhythmic constraint of prosodic boundaries in Chinese Mandarin based on corpora of silent reading and speech perception, INTERSPEECH 2016, pp.87-91. Best Student Paper.

7. Yibin Zheng, Ya Li, Zhengqi Wen, Xingguang Ding, Jianhua Tao, ”Improving Prosodic Boundaries Prediction for Mandarin Speech Synthesis by Using Enhanced Embedding Feature and Model Fusion Approaches”, Interspeech 2016, PP:3201-3205, Sep 8-12, 2016.

8. Zhengqi Wen, Ya Li and Jianhua Tao, “The Parameterized Phoneme Identity Feature as a Continuous Real-Valued Vector for Neural Network based Speech Synthesis”, Interspeech 2016, PP:2248-2252, Sep 8-12, 2016.

9. Yibin Zheng, Ya Li, Zhengqi Wen, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao, ”Investigating Deep Neural Network Adaptation for Generating Exclamatory and Interrogative Speech in Mandarin”, 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP2016), Oct 17-20, 2016.

10. Yibin Zheng, Ya Li, Zhengqi Wen, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao, “Text-based sentential stress prediction using continuous lexical embedding for Mandarin speech synthesis”, 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP2016), Oct 17-20, 2016.

11. Linlin Chao, Jianhua Tao, Minghao Yang, Ya Li and Zhengqi Wen, Long Short-Term Memory Based Recurrent Neural Network Based Encoding Method for Emotion Recongnition In Video, ICASSP 2016, pp. 2752-2756.

12. Ya Li, Yazhu Liu, Wei Bao, Linlin Chao, Jianhua Tao, From Simulated Speech to Natural Speech, What are the Robust Features for Emotion Recognition?, The sixth International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2015), pp. 368-373

13. Ya Li, Nick Campbell, Jianhua Tao, Voice Quality: Not Only About “You” But Also About “Your Interlocutor”, ICASSP 2015, pp. 4739-4743.

14. Linlin Chao, Jianhua Tao, Minghao Yang, Ya Li and Zhengqi Wen, “Long Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network based Multimodal Dimensional Emotion Recognition,”in Proc. AVEC@ACM Multimedia 2015, pp. 65-72.

15. Linlin Chao,Jianhua Tao,Minghao Yang,Ya Li, "Multi Task Sequence Learning for Depression Scale Prediction from Video" 6th Affecive Computing and Intelligent Interaction(ACII 2015),PP:525-531,Sep.21-24,2015,Xian,China,EI.

16. Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Keikichi Hirose,Wei Lai,Xiaoying Xu, "Hierarchical stress generation with Fujisaki model in expressive speech synthesis" SPEECH PROSODY 2014,May 20-23,PP:1032-1036,Dublin Ireland.

17. Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Keikichi Hirose, Wei Lai and Xiaoying Xu,Hierarchical stress generation with Fujisaki model in expressive speech synthesis, Speech prosody 2014.

18. Ya Li, Xuefei Liu, Xiaoying Xu and Jianhua Tao, Assign Stress for Interrogative Sentences via Syntax Structure Mapping, Speech Prosody 2012.

19. Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Xiaoying Xu, Hierarchical Stress Modeling in Mandarin Text-to-Speech, INTERSPEECH 2011, Florence, Italy, Aug, 2011, 2013-2016.

20. Ya Li, Yingchao Lu, Xiaoying Xu, Jianhua Tao, The impact of rhythm level and tone pattern on stress perception in continuous speech, Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), 2011, Vol. 10, 1239-1243

21. Ya Li, Shifeng Pan, Jianhua Tao, HMM-based Expressive Speech Synthesis with a Flexible Mandarin Stress Adaptation Model, Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), 2011, Vol. 10, 1171-1175(Best Student Paper Nomination)

22. Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Meng Zhang, Shifeng Pan, Xiaoying Xu, Text-based unstressed syllable prediction in Mandarin, INTERSPEECH 2010, 26-30, September, Makuhari, Chiba,Japan,pp.1752-1755.

23. Ya Li, Shifeng Pan, Jianhua Tao, HMM-based Expressive Speech Synthesis with a Flexible Mandarin Stress Adaptation Model, ICSP 2010, Beijing, Oct 24-28, pp.625-628.

Jianhua Tao, Ya Li, A hierarchical Mandarin stress modeling and prediction method, ZL201110200330.1

Best Student Paper，INTERSPEECH 2016.

Beijing Science and Technology Award. Second Prize, 2014

Best Student Paper Nomination, NCMMSC 2011.