Updated on November, 2012


Jun Wang, Ph.D.

Research Scientist
A119, Callier Center for Communication Disorders
University of Texas at Dallas
1966 Inwood Rd.
Dallas, TX 75235

Office: (214)905-3156
Email: wangjun AT utdallas.edu (replace ' AT ' with '@')

That's me.



I earned my PhD degree in computer science from University of Nebraska - Lincoln in December 2011, co-advised by Dr. Jordan R. Green (communication disorders) and Dr. Ashok Samal (computer science). I was then
a postdoctoral research associate in the Neurogenetic Communication Disorders Consortium, a joint program between University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska - Lincoln from January to August 2012 before I joined UTD Callier Center.



Research

Silent speech recognition, articulatory-to-speech synthesis
Motor speech disorders, motor speech decline in early amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Brain activity signal analysis for communication disorders


Tongue motion tracking devices

Electromagnetic Articulograph (EMA), AG501, Carstens, Germany
Wave, Northern Digital Inc., Canada


Selected Publications
 
Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Yunusova, Y. (In press). Articulatory distinctiveness of vowels and consonants: A data-driven approach, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR).

Wang, J.
, Samal, A., Green, J. R., & Rudzicz, F. (2012). Whole-word recognition from articulatory movements for silent speech interfaces, InterSpeech, Portland, OR.

Yunusova, Y., Green, J.R., Lindstrom, M.J., Wang, J., Pattee, G.L., & Zinman, L. (2012). Speech in ALS: Longitudinal changes in lips and jaw movements and vowel acoustics. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology. (in press).

Wang, J.
, Samal, A., Green, J. R., & Rudzicz, F. (2012). Sentence recognition from articulatory movements for silent speech interfaces, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (pp. 4985-4988), Kyoto, Japan.

Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Greenwood, L., Wang, J., Pattee, G. L., & Zinman, L. (2012). Tongue movements and their acoustic consequences in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica (International Journal of Phoniatrics, Speech Therapy and Communication Pathology), 64(2):94-102.

Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Marx, D. B. (2011). Quantifying articulatory distinctiveness of vowels, InterSpeech (pp. 277-280), Florence, Italy.

Yunusova Y., Green J.R., Wang J., Pattee G., & Zinman L. (2011). A protocol for comprehensive assessment of bulbar (speech) dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 48.

Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. D. (2010). Vowel recognition from continuous articulatory movements for speaker-dependent applications, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) (pp. 1-7), Gold Coast, Australia.

Wang, J.
, Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. D. (2009). Vowel recognition from articulatory position time-series data, Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) (pp. 1-7), Omaha, United States.


Abstracts / Conference Presentations

Wang, J., Green, J. R., Samal, A., Yunusova, Y., Kuruvilla, M. S., Patttee, G. P., & Boney, T. (2012). Articulatory and acoustic vowel space changes in early ALS, ASHA Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.

Green, J. R., Yunusova, Y., Pattee, G., Zinman, L., Kuruvilla, M., Wang, J., & Falikowski, M. (2012). Bulbar motor deterioration in ALS, the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.

Wiegert, R. G., Kuruvilla, M. S., Hogan, T. P., Wang, J., & Green, J. R. (2012). Effect of phoneme frequency and age of acquisition on tongue movement variability. University of Nebraska - Lincoln Research Fair.

Wang, J.
, Green, J. R., Samal, A., Yunusova, Y., & Kuruvilla, M. S. (2012). Stage-based progression of articulatory performances in early ALS, Conference on Motor Speech, Santa Rosa, CA.

Wang, J.
, Green, J. R., Samal, A., & Carrell, T. (2010). Recognizing Continuously Produced Vowels from Articulatory Movements, Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA.

Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Wang, J., & Lingham, A. (2010). Jerk-cost and other motor indices of disease progression in ALS, Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA.

Wang, J.
, Samal, A., Green, J. R., & Carrell, T. D. (2009). Vowel recognition from articulatory position time-series data, the 157th Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, Portland, OR.


Awards

International Travel Award, College of Education and Human Sciences, UNL, 2011
Research Mentoring Pair Travel Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), 2009
Dohrmann Fellowship, Dept of CSE, UNL, 2006-07


Professional Memberships

Member, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), 2012
Student Member, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2011
Student Member, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2009, 2011
Member, National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA), 2009


Fun Stuff


Our ALS research was highlighted on the huge screen inside the Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE before the Nebraska's historic game hosting Ohio State University, Oct 08, 2011.