News
Research updates and milestones.
A chronological record of publications, awards, student enrolments, and career events.
2026
- 04 Jun 2026Three INTERSPEECH manuscripts have been accepted.
- 25 Mar 2026A manuscript has been accepted by ICME 2026.
- 23 Jan 2026Four manuscripts have been accepted by ICASSP, alongside two more TASLP paper presentations.
2025
- 24 Dec 2025We have a manuscript accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP).
- 22 Dec 2025My research group has held the first annual workshop.
- 16 Dec 2025FOUR PhD studentships have been granted under my supervision. For details, please refer to the recruitment page.
- 15 Sep 2025An international team led by me has ranked 4th in RenCon, MIREX data challenge and is invited for live performance over ISMIR 2025.
- 05 Sep 2025We have two manuscripts accepted by DCASE Workshop 2025.
- 25 Aug 2025We have two manuscripts accepted by CMMR 2025.
- 10 Jul 2025A paper named “Domain Adaptation of Few-Shot Bioacoustic Event Detection in Different Environments” has been accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP).
- 29 Mar 2025A manuscript has been accepted by ISMIR 2025.
2024
- 31 Dec 2024Our team has been awarded a special funding program of 15M RMB where I am responsible for a project and a sub-project under the program for a total of 5.5M funding.
- 22 Nov 2024I have been promoted to associate professor, effective from 2025.
- 25 Oct 2024My team has been awarded the “judges’ award” for the task of data-efficient low-complexity acoustic scene classification in DCASE data challenge.
- 23 Oct 2024A paper named “Leveraging self-supervised audio representations for data-efficient acoustic scene classification” has been accepted by DCASE Workshop 2024.
- 05 Sep 2024A paper named “Speech Formants Integration for Generalized Detection of Synthetic Speech Spoofing Attacks” has been published by INTERSPEECH 2024.
- 10 Jan 2024A paper named “Acoustic Scene Classification across Cities and Devices via Feature Disentanglement” has been accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP).
2023
- 14 Dec 2023A paper named “TF-SepNet: An Efficient 1D Kernel Design in CNNs for Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification” has been accepted by IEEE ICASSP.
- 03 Dec 2023Yizhou Tan has enrolled in XJTLU as my PhD student.
- 13 Nov 2023My student Yuqiang Li has presented his work on CMMR 2023.
- 01 Sep 2023Yiqiang Cai has enrolled in XJTLU as my PhD student.
- 07 Jun 2023I have given a webinar on music AI at Tsinghua University.
- 31 May 2023The team led by me has been nominated as the runner-up of DCASE Challenge 2023 Task 1.
- 18 May 2023A paper named “Transductive Feature Space Regularization for Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection” has been accepted by INTERSPEECH 2023.
- 04 May 2023A paper named “Measuring channel sparsity for neural network pruning in acoustic scene classification” has been accepted by the 10th Conference on Sound and Music Computing (CSMT).
- 01 Mar 2023Yuxuan Liu has enrolled in XJTLU as my PhD student.
2022
- 14 Jul 2022We have a paper accepted by ISMIR 2022.
- 01 Jul 2022I have been offered a Junior Academia Innovative Fellowship under the scheme of Gusu Leadership Fellowship.
- 03 May 2022I have a SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) project funded.
- 10 Feb 2022I have been appointed as the leader of the research group named machine learning and data analysis, School of Advanced Technology, XJTLU.
- 24 Jan 2022I have a PhD studentship awarded which is now calling for applicants.
- 01 Jan 2022I have a Chinese review published on CCCF (Communications of CCF).
2021
- 04 Jul 2021My students have been named among the top-ranked team of DCASE challenge 2021. We ranked 3rd in automatic audio captioning and ranked 5th in Visual-Audio Scenes Classification.
- 27 Jun 2021I have given a talk on CCF CTO Club (Hanshan Summit).
- 09 Jun 2021We have presented a paper named Unsupervised Heart Abnormality Detection Based on Phonocardiogram Analysis with Beta Variational Auto-Encoders on ICASSP 2021.
- 16 Apr 2021I give a talk in Duke Kunshan University.
- 07 Apr 2021I have left Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and joined XJTLU.
- 22 Feb 2021I have a paper accepted by ICASSP 2021. The paper is co-authored by Ke Tian and Rui Wang.
2020
- 01 Dec 2020I have served as a reviewer of ICASSP 2020.
- 08 Nov 2020My student Chunxia Ren has been awarded “Best Student Paper” in Conference on Sound and Music Technology 2020 in Taiyuan, China.
- 08 Nov 2020The AI composition identification data challenge (as CSMT data challenge 2020) has announced the results.
- 04 Nov 2020My DCASE team jointly formed by colleagues from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications has been awarded the reproducibility award of Task 6, DCASE data challenge 2020.
- 26 Oct 2020I hosted the Singing Voice Computing and Processing in Music (Special Session) of INTERSPEECH 2020.
- 25 Oct 2020I am now a task force member of Speech Dialogue and Auditory Processing, China Computer Federation.
- 24 Aug 2020I have reviewed three papers for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and Neurocomputing.
- 26 Jul 2020Two papers have been accepted by INTERSPEECH 2020.
- 04 Jul 2020The joint team has ranked no. 2 at DCASE challenge Task 6.
- 13 Jun 2020I have given a speech on the webinar organised by the speech and auditory committee of China Computer Federation with the number of audiences reaching 4000.
- 21 Feb 2020A joint DCASE challenge team is formed with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), led by Prof. Xi Shao.
- 07 Feb 2020Due to the virus outbreak, I am now working at home on all working days until further notice.
2019
- 08 Nov 2019I went to ISMIR 2019 in Delft, Netherlands.
- 30 Oct 2019Shengchen Li gives a seminar in C4DM, Queen Mary University of London.
- 16 Jul 2019Shengchen Li has taught Machine Auditory jointly with George Fazekas in BUPT summer school.
- 29 Jun 2019A joint research team wins the DCASE Challenge 2019 Task 1C.
- 31 May 2019WANG Jun has successfully defended his dissertation.
- 22 May 2019Shengchen Li gives a seminar in CVSSP, University of Surrey.
- 14 May 2019Yuanbo Hou has presented his paper Sound Event Detection with Sequentially Labelled Data based on Connectionist Temporal Classification and Unsupervised Clustering on ICASSP 2019.
- 09 May 2019ZHOU Songjiang has successfully defended his dissertation.
- 23 Apr 2019Students are trained for internal system and website build.
- 20 Apr 2019New student handbook has been released.