xk星空 Interests：
◆ Speech perception and assistive hearing technology
◆ Brain-computer interface
◆ Biomedical signal processing

Professional Experience：

◆ June. 2020 – Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, South University of Science and Technology of China
◆ Dec. 2014 –June. 2020 Associate Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, South University of Science and Technology of China
Honorary Associate Professor, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
◆ Jan. 2012 – Nov. 2014 xk星空 Assistant Professor, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
◆ Mar. 2009 – Feb. 2011 Post-doctor xk星空 Fellow/xk星空 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas
◆ Mar. 2005 – Feb. 2009 xk星空 Fellow, Shunhing Institute of Advanced Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Educational Background：
◆ Dec. 2001 – Feb. 2005 Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
Dept. of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
◆ Sept. 1998 – Jul. 2001 M.Phil. in Biomedical Engineering
Dept. of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing
◆ Sept. 1994 – Jul. 1998 B.Sc. in Microwave Physics
Dept. of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing

Honors & Awards：
◆ National Organization for Hearing xk星空 Foundation xk星空 Awards in 2011
◆ Shenzhen “Overseas High-Caliber Personnel Award” (Peacock Plan), 2015
◆ Best Presentation Award, 9th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language and Hearing, 2015

Selected Publication：

1) Wang, L., Li, H., Wu, Ed X., and Chen, F., “Cortical auditory responses index the contribution of different level-dependent segments for speech intelligibility,” Hearing xk星空, vol. 383: 107808, 2019.

2) Pan, F., xk星空, F., Liu, C., Yang, Z. P., Liu, Z. H., Zheng, D. C., “Quantitative comparison of Korotkoff sound waveform characteristics: Effects of static cuff pressures and stethoscope positions,” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 1736–1744, 2018.

3) Guan, T., Chu, G. X., Tsao, Y., and xk星空, F., “Assessing the perceptual contributions of level-dependent segments to sentence intelligibility,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 139 (5), pp. 3745–3754, November 2016.

4) xk星空, F. and Chan, Fiona W. S., “Understanding frequency-compressed Mandarin sentences: Role of vowels,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 139 (3), pp. 1204–1213, March 2016.

5) xk星空, F., “Predicting the intelligibility of noise-corrupted speech non-intrusively by across-band envelope correlation,” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 24, 109–113, February 2016.