The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” (Genesis 11: 6-7)

This is the reason why there are so many languages in the world. Although it is God's intention to confuse human being with the languages, He still gives us a chance to break the spell. God implies that nothing will be impossible when human being get unified. Thus, I believe that everything is achievable with technology.

Announcement

I am currently recruiting intern students in the field of speech and natural language processing. Candidates need to be self-motivated and good at programming (e.g. C++, python). If you are interested in speech or machine translation related research, please feel free to contact me.


Contact: tomkocse@gmail.com

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Biography

Tom, Ko Yu Ting received the B.Eng. degree in computer engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003. Then he received the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010 and 2014 respectively. Throughout his postgraduate studies, he was supervised by Professor Brian Mak. After that, he joined Huawei Noah's Ark Lab as a research scientist. In 2019, he worked as an assistant professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in China. In 2021, he joined ByteDance AI as a research scientist. His research interests include speech recognition and natural language processing.


Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering in HKUST, 2014

M.Phil. in Computer Science and Engineering in HKUST, 2010

M.Sc. in IC Design Engineering in HKUST, 2007

Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering in CUHK, 2003


Publications

[Conference Papers]

[Journal Papers]

[Thesis]

Phone Deletion Modeling in Speech Recognition (M.Phil.)

Distinct Acoustic Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition (Ph.D.)

[Award]

2nd best presentation in Signal Processing Postgraduate Forum 2010 organized by the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter

Professor Samuel Chanson Best Teaching Assistant Award 2011-12


Services

[Teaching Assistant]