Awards & Accolades

• A*STAR Fellow 2023
• IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer 2023
• Singapore 100 Women in Tech 2021
• Infocomm Media Development Authority and Singapore Computer Society, Best Paper Award 2021
• The 22nd Annual Meeting of SIGDIAL (Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue), Young Scientist Best Paper Award 2021
• Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), P&G Connect + Develop Open Innovation Award 2020
• Procter & Gamble on Emerging Tech Digital Insights
• Loreal UNESCO For Women in Science National Fellowship 2019
• Winner for Physical and Engineering Sciences Award, Top 3 percentile on Kaggle Competition 2017
• YouTube-8M Large-Scale Video Understanding Challenge, Best Paper Award 2016
• Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, Top Performer, NTAR track 2014
• NIST Open Keyword Search Evaluation funded by IARPA Babel Program
• Outstanding Mentor Award 2012, Ministry of Education, Singapore
• IEEE Spoken Language Processing Grant 2011
• Outstanding paper award in spoken language processing at ICASSP sponsored by Microsoft

Professional and Academic Engagements

• Program Chair, ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) 2023
• Elected Board Member, ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) 2021 - 2025
• Senior Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2023 - present
• Chair, IEEE PROGRESS Workshop 2022
• Senior Area Chair, AACL 2022
• Area Chair, Interspeech 2022
• Invited Speakers Chair, IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Doha, Qatar 2022
• Plenary Chair, ISCSLP, Singapore 2022
• Area Chair, EMNLP 2021
• Area Chair, ACL 2021
• Senior Area Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters,  2021 - 2023
• Associate Editor, Computer, Speech, and Language, 2021 - present
• Show and Tell Chair, Diversity Program Chair, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and, Signal Processing, 2022
  
• Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing,  2020 - 2023
• Associate Editor, Neurocomputing, 2020 - 2021
• Associate Editor,IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2019 - 2021
  
• Best Paper Awards Committee, Area Chair, IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop 2021
• Technical Committee, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop 2019 
• Co-Chair, NEWS 2018: The Seventh Named Entities Workshop, 56th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics
• Special Session Chair, 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing 2018
• Guest Editor,"Special Issue on “End-to-End Speech and Language Processing” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 2017
  
• Elected Member, IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) 2016 - 2021
• Editors Information Classification Scheme (EDICS) sub-committee, SLTC 2016 - 2021
• Meta-reviewer for ICASSP, SLT and ASRU, SLTC 2016 - 2021
• Publicity Chair, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2016
  
• Sponsorship Chair, Interspeech, Singapore 2014
• Local Organizing Committee, Odyssey: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Singapore 2012