Ph.D., Information and Communication Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2005-2009.

M.S., Communication and Information Systems, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2002-2005.

B.S., Applied Physics, China University of Petroleum, 1998-2002.

Speech and signal processing (including spoken language recognition, speaker recognition, keyword spotting, continues speech recognition, audio retrieval, etc.), machine learning and statistical pattern recognition.

Research Projects:

2014-2017, NSFC project “Speaker recognition in noisy and short-utterance conditions”, PI.

2010-2013, NSFC (National Science Foundation of China) project “Massive data filtering and selection for speech signal processing”, PI.

Advanced Team Award for High-Tech Olympics in 2008.

1st Award of Science and Technology Progress from Chinese Ministry of Education in 2007.

Selected Journal Publications:

[1] Z.-Y. Li, W.-Q. Zhang, and J. Liu, “Multi-resolution time frequency feature and complementary combination for short utterance speaker recognition,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 74, no. 74, pp. 937-953, Feb. 2015.

[2] W.-Q. Zhang, W.-W. Liu, Z.-Y. Li, Y.-Z. Shi, and J. Liu, “Spoken language recognition based on gap-weighted subsequence kernels,” Speech Communication, vol. 60, pp. 1-12, May 2014.

[3] Y.-Z. Shi, W.-Q. Zhang, J. Liu, and M. Johnson, “Efficient one-pass decoding with NNLM for speech recognition,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 377-381, Apr. 2014.

[4] W.-L. Zhang, D. Qu, W.-Q. Zhang, and B.-C. Li. “Rapid speaker adaptation using compressive sensing,” Speech Communication, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 950-963, Nov.-Dec. 2013.

[5] W.-L. Zhang, W.-Q. Zhang, B.-C. Li, D. Qu, and M. T. Johnson, “Bayesian speaker adaptation based on a new hierarchical probabilistic model,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 2002-2015, Sept. 2012.

[6] W.-Q. Zhang, L. He, Y. Deng, J. Liu, and M. Johnson, “Time-frequency cepstral feature and constrained heteroscedastic linear discriminant analysis for language recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,  vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 266-272, Feb. 2011.

[7] W.-Q. Zhang, T. Hou, and J. Liu, “Discriminative score fusion for language identification,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 19, no. 19, pp. 124-128, Jan. 2010.

[8] W.-Q. Zhang and J. Liu, “An equalized heteroscedastic linear discriminant analysis algorithm,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, pp. 585-588, 2008.

[9] R. Tao, W.-Q. Zhang, and E.-Q. Chen, “Two-stage method for joint time delay and Doppler shift estimation,” IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 71-77, Feb. 2008.

[10] R. Tao, B. Deng, W.-Q. Zhang, and Y. Wang, “Sampling and sampling rate conversion of band limited signals in the fractional Fourier transform domain,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 158-171, Jan. 2008.