Zhijian OU

homepage: http://oa.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn/~ouzhijian/index.htm

Zhijian Ou received the Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2003. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, and Co-founder of TasiTech. His research interests include speech and language processing (particularly speech recognition and dialogue systems) and machine intelligence (particularly with graphical models and deep learning). He is an Senior Area Editor of IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING and SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, an Editorial Board Member of COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE, a Member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, and was the General Chair of SLT 2021, EMNLP 2022 SereTOD Workshop, SLT 2024 FutureDial-RAG Challenge, and the Tutorial Chair of INTERSPEECH 2020. He has actively led national research projects as well as research funding from China Mobile, Unicom, Apple, IBM, Intel, Panasonic, Toshiba and so on.

Publications (selected):

1. Yichi Zhang, Zhijian Ou*, Zhou Yu. Task-Oriented Dialog Systems that Consider Multiple Appropriate Responses under the Same Context. AAAI, New York, USA, 2020.

2. Zhijian Ou*, Yunfu Song. Joint Stochastic Approximation and Its Application to Learning Discrete Latent Variable Models. UAI, 2020.

3. Hongyu Xiang, Zhijian Ou*. CRF-based Single-stage Acoustic Modeling with CTC Topology. ICASSP, Brighton, UK, 2019. [Oral]

4. Bin Wang, Zhijian Ou*, Zhiqiang Tan*.  Learning Trans-dimensional Random Fields with Applications to Language Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2018, vol.40, no.4, pp.876-890.

5. Xianyu Zhao, Zhijian Ou*. Closely Coupled Array Processing and Model-Based Compensation for Microphone Array Speech Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2007, vol.15, no. 3, pp.1114-1122.