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School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
 Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Tel: +44 (0)28 90974723 or 90971705 Fax: +44 (028) 90974879 Email: j.ming@qub.ac.uk 

About Myself

I am a Professor in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and also in the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, at the Queen's University Belfast. I am a member of the Speech and Vision Systems Research Cluster. From 2005-2006 I was a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

My research interests include:

• Speech and signal recognition - modeling, robustness to noise
• Speech and signal separation and enhancement 
• Speaker and acoustic source identification - modeling, robustness to noise, robustness to channel distortion
• Audio-visual person idenitification
• Face recognition and image processing 
• Signal processing and pattern recognition
• Statistical language modeling

Recent Research Projects

· Automatic Analysis of Acoustic Recordings of Respiratory Sounds, with Vitalograph Ltd (IntertradeIreland FUSION project, 2012 ~ 2013)

· Knowledge Transfer Secondment (KTS) scheme, with Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd (EPSRC, 2011 ~ 2012)

· Corpus-Based Speech Separation (EPSRC, 2008 ~ 2011)

· Robust Bimodal Person Identification for Mobile Devices (PhD Studentship funded by Intel, 2008 ~ 2011)

· SHARES - System-on-chip Heterogeneous Architecture Recognition Engine for Speech (EPSRC, 2006 ~ 2009)

· Integrating Noise and Unified Speech Models for Communication on Mobile Devices in Noisy Environments (EPSRC, in collaboration with Brunel, Southampton and East Anglia Universities , 2003 ~ 2006)

· Telephonic speech study (funded by the UK Government, 2005 ~ 2006)

· Robust Speaker Recognition in Noisy Conditions - A Feasibility Study (EPSRC, in collaboration with Forensic Science Service, Forensic Science Agency Northern Ireland, First Trust Bank, and Bluechip Technologies, 2004 ~ 2005)

· Probabilistic Union Model for Recognition of Partially Corrupted Speech (EPSRC, 2000 ~ 2003)

· Development of Noise-Robust Speech Recognition Systems (funded by Bluechip Technologies , 2001 ~ 2003)

· Modeling Voice, Accent and Emotion in Text to Speech Synthesis (EPSRC, 2000 ~ 2003)

· TCS Programme No 3191 (with Bluechip Technologies, 2000 ~ 2002)

· Comparison of Human and Statistical Language Model Performance (EPSRC, 1997 ~ 1998)

· Development and Integration of Statistical Speech and Language Models (EPSRC, 1996 ~ 1999)

· International Exchange Fellowship (QUB, 2005 ~ 2006)

Publications

Please click here for a list of my publications.