I am currently a research assistant professor at the Department of English and Communication ,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
My main research interests lie in forensic speech science, sociophonetics, acoustic phonetics, Bayesian statistics as well as evaluation of voice evidence involving English, Cantonese and Mandarin. I did my PhD in forensic speech science where I investigated the issue of sampling variability in forensic voice comparison. My PhD research contributes to the on-going discussion of validity and reliability in the forensic evidence comparison showing that forensic experts should focus on measuring and minimising uncertainty, not maximising discriminability.
Beforing joining the English department, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, working on the SCOLAR funded project Developing a Social Robot for Cantonese and Mandarin Speech Prosody Training in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Si CHEN (PI).