• I was the finalist of the ASSETS08 Student Research Competition (SRC), and will compete at the SRC grand finals.

  • I (along with Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel from the speech communications group) am organizing an informal weekly (Thursday afternoons from 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm) reading and discussion group to understand prosody. Read details here.
  • My paper titled "Analysis of Speech Properties of Neurotypicals and Individuals Diagnosed with Autism and Down Syndrome" gets accepted at the ASSETS08, along with ACM travel grant award.
  • Paper submitted to CogSci08 titled "The Interactions between Information and Information Structure: Prosodic Marking of Theme an Rheme" gets accepted.
  • Paper titled "What Speech Tells us about Discourse: The Role of Prosodic and Discourse Features in Dialogue Act Classification" gets accepted in IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2007. [2/30/07]
  • My paper titled "Robust Recognition of Emotion from Speech" accepted to the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents gets nominated for best paper award. [8/25/2006]
  • I have successfully finished my summer internship as Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs, New York with the Global Control Technology Group, under the Firmwide Technology Division.
  • My poster titled "Robust Recognition of Emotion in e-Learning Environment" was awarded the "2nd Best Poster Award" by Sigma Xi Honor Society at the 18th Annual Research Forum organized by University of Memphis. [4/11/2006]