Multimedia communications and signal analysis: Multimedia quality measurement and enhancement, environment-robust speaker identification and speech recognition, speech-based age/gender/emotion classification.

 

Atypical communications: Pathological speech assessment and enhancement, intelligent algorithms for hearing aid design, brain-computer interfaces, assistive technologies.

 

Biomedical signal processing and analysis: Bioinformatics, biometrics (voice/face/physiology-based), biosensor fusion.

 

Multimodal signal analysis and enhancement: human-computer interfaces, audio-visual disordered speech recognition, multimodal biometrics.

 

Knowledge discovery: Machine learning, pattern recognition.