Professional Activities and External Presence

• Served as member of technical committee and technical review committee for various conferences and workshops, such as ICSLP (International Conference on Spoken Language Processing), Eurospeech, IEEE conference and workshops, etc.
• Have been reviewer for journals (IEEE trans., Speech Communications, etc) and conferences (ICSLP, Eurospeech, IEEE conferences and workshops);
• Member of IEEE, ISCA (International Speech Communication Association), ISBEM (International Society for Bioelectromagnetism);
• Industrial supervisor of a PhD program in University of Sheffield (with Prof. Phil Green) 2000;
• Invited as Panelist at ISCSLP 2004;
• Nokia Invention award 2006;
• Scholarship from Oskar Öflund Stiftelse foundation, Savo high technology Foundation, Center for international mobility (CIMO), Karolinska Institute, academy of Sweden.

My research interests include

• Speech and natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, voice conversion, voice UI;
• Statistical signal processing, pattern recognition;
• Machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence;
• Biomedical signal detection and processing, system design;

I am author of about 50 publications including book chapter, journal and conference papers. Click here for complete list of publications.

2007

• Jilei Tian, Jani Nurminen and Imre Kiss, Novel Eigen-pitch Based Prosody Model For Text-to-Speech Synthesis, submitted to European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech/Interspeech), Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
• Jussi Leppanen, Jilei Tian, Dynamic Vocabulary Prediction for Isolated-Word Dictation on Embedded Devices, submitted to European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech/Interspeech), Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
  
• Jani Nurminen, Jilei Tian and Victor Popa, Voicing Level Control with Application in Voice Conversion, submitted to European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech/Interspeech), Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.

2006

• Jilei Tian, Victor Popa and Jani Nurminen, Efficient Gaussian Mixture Model Evaluation in Voice Conversion, in Proceedings of 9^th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh, USA, 2006.
• Jani Nurminen, Jilei Tian and Victor Popa, Novel Method for Data Clustering and Mode Selection with Application in Voice Conversion, in Proceedings of 9^th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh, USA, 2006.
• Jilei Tian, Jani Nurminen and Imre Kiss, Modular Text-to-Speech Synthesis Evaluation for Mandarin Chinese, in Proceedings of International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Singapore, 2006.
• Evgeny Karpov, Imre Kiss, Jussi Leppänen, Jesper Olsen, Daniela Oria, Sunil Sivadas and Jilei Tian, Short Message Dictaton on Symbian Series 60 Mobile Phones, in Proceedings of ACM 8th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE), Espoo, Finland, 2006.
• Jani Nurminen, Victor Popa, Jilei Tian, Yuezhong Tang and Imre Kiss, A Parametric Approach for Voice Conversion, in Proceedings of to TC-STAR Speech-to-Speech Translation Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
• Jilei Tian, Jani Nurminen, Feng Ding and Imre Kiss, Modular Design for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis, in Proceedings of TC-STAR Speech-to-Speech Translation Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
• Evgeny Karpov, Imre Kiss, Jussi Leppänen, Jesper Olsen, Daniela Oria, Sunil Sivadas and Jilei Tian, Short Message Dictaton on Symbian Series 60 Mobile Phones, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Banff, Canada, 2006.
• Jilei Tian, Jani Nurminen, Feng Ding and Imre Kiss, Embedded Text-to-Speech Synthesis System, presented in 13^th International Workshop on Advances in Speech Technology, Maribor, Slovenia, 2006.
• Javier Perez, Antonio Bonafonte, Horst-Udo Hain, Eric Keller, Stefan Breuer and Jilei Tian, ECESS Inter-Module Interface Specification for Speech Synthesis, in Proceedings of 5^th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa, Italy, 2006.

3 granted patents, about 25 pending.