Get in Touch

With Rong Tong

Name and email
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Assistant Professor

Rong Tong

PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Cluster:
Infocomm Technology
Email
Website
Google Scholar

Biography

Dr Tong Rong is currently an Assistant Professor with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Infocomm Technology (ICT) Cluster. She is a recipient of Inauguration Grant of the MOE Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent (START) Award 2022. 

Prior to joining SIT, she was with Singapore R&D center, Alibaba Damo Academy. Before that, she worked in Institute for Infocomm Research, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. Dr Tong Rong obtained her PhD in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University, under the supervision of Dr Li Haizhou and Dr Chng Engsiong. She received her bachelor and master’s degrees in computer science both from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.

Dr Tong’s area of focus are multilingual speech and language processing. She has published more than 40 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. She has served as the technical program chair of IALP 2017 and 2022, and committee member of more than 10 international conferences. She is a council member of Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS).

Education

  • PhD
    Nanyang Technological University , Singapore

Achievements

  • Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2013, (voiceprint technology), The Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES)
  • Inauguration Grant of the MOE Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent (START) Award, 2022

Professional Memberships

  • Senior member, IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    Present
  • Council member, COLIPS (Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society)
    Present

Research Interests

  • Multilingual speech and language processing
  • Computer assistant language learning
  • Automatic speech recognition
  • Language and speaker recognition
  • Machine learning

Journal Papers

  • Nancy F. Chen, Darren Wee, Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li,  "Large-scale characterization of non-native Mandarin Chinese spoken by speakers of European origin: Analysis on iCALL", Speech Communication. 84: 46-56 (2016)

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Chng Eng Siong, "A Target-Oriented Phonotactic Front-End for Spoken Language Recognition", IEEE transactions on audio, speech, and language processing 17(7) 1335-1347 (2009)

  • Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Rong Tong,  "Spoken Language Recognition Using Ensemble Classifiers",  IEEE transactions on audio, speech, and language processing , 15(7) 2053-2062 (2007)

Conferences

  • Shengkui Zhao, Chongjia Ni, Rong Tong, BIn Ma, "Multi-Task Multi-Network Joint-Learning of Deep Residual Networks and Cycle-Consistency Generative Adversarial Networks for Robust Speech Recognition", INTERSPEECH 2019, 1238- 1242

  • Chitralekha Gupta, Rong Tong, Haizhou Li, Ye Wang, "Semi-supervised Lyrics and Solo-singing Alignment", ISMIR 2018: 600-607

  • Nguyen Bach, Hongjie Chen, Kai Fan, Cheung-Chi Leung, Bo Li, Chongjia Ni, Rong Tong, Pei Zhang, Boxing Chen, Bin Ma, Fei Huang, "Alibaba speech translation systems for IWSLT 2018", Proc. of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Bruges, Belgium

  • Rong Tong, Lei Wang, Bin Ma, "Transfer learning for children's speech recognition ", IALP 2017: 36-39

  • Rong Tong, Nancy F. Chen, Bin Ma: "Multi-Task Learning for Mispronunciation Detection on Singapore Children's Mandarin Speech", INTERSPEEH 2017: 2193-2197

  • Nancy F. Chen, Rong Tong, Darren Wee, Pei Xuan Lee, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, "SingaKids-Mandarin: Speech Corpus of Singaporean Children Speaking Mandarin Chinese", INTERSPEECH 2016: 1545-1549

  • Rong Tong, Nancy F. Chen, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, " Context Aware Mispronunciation Detection for Mandarin Pronunciation Training ", INTERSPEECH 2016: 3112-3116

  • Minghui Dong, Chenyu Yang, Yanfeng Lu, Jochen Walter Ehnes, Dong-Yan Huang, Huaiping Ming, Rong Tong, Siu Wa Lee, Haizhou Li, "Mapping frames with DNN-HMM recognizer for non-parallel voice conversion ", APSIPA 2015: 488-494

  • Nancy F. Chen, Rong Tong, Darren Wee, Pei Xuan Lee, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, "iCALL corpus: Mandarin Chinese spoken by non-native speakers of European descent ", INTERSPEECH 2015: 324-328

  • Rong Tong, Nancy F. Chen, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, "Goodness of tone (GOT) for non-native Mandarin tone recognition ", INTERSPEECH 2015: 801-805

  • Rong Tong, Nancy F. Chen, Boon Pang Lim, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, " Tokenizing fundamental frequency variation for Mandarin tone error detection ", ICASSP 2015: 5361-5365

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, "Virtual example for phonotactic language recognition ", INTERSPEECH 2014: 3017-3021

  • Rong Tong, Boon Pang Lim, Nancy F. Chen, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, "Subspace Gaussian mixture model for computer-assisted language learning ", ICASSP 2014: 5347-5351

  • Lei Wang, Rong Tong, "Pronunciation modeling of foreign words for Mandarin ASR by considering the effect of language transfer ", INTERSPEECH 2014: 1443-1447

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Chng Eng Siong, " Target-Aware Lattice Rescoring for Dialect Recognition ",  INTERSPEECH 2011: 733-736

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Engsiong Chng, "Selecting phonotactic features for language recognition ", INTERSPEECH 2010: 737-740

  • C. Santhosh Kumar, Haizhou Li, Rong Tong, Pavel Matejka, Lukás Burget, Jan Cernocký, "Tuning phone decoders for language identification ", ICASSP 2010: 5010-5013

  • Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, Kong-Aik Lee, Hanwu Sun, Donglai Zhu, Khe Chai Sim, Changhuai You, Rong Tong, Ismo Kärkkäinen, Chien-Lin Huang, Vladimir Pervouchine, Wu Guo, Yijie Li, Li-Rong Dai, Mohaddeseh Nosratighods, Tharmarajah Thiruvaran, Julien Epps, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Chng Eng Siong, Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, "The I4U system in NIST 2008 speaker recognition evaluation", ICASSP 2009: 4201-4204

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Engsiong Chng, Kong-Aik Lee, " Target-aware language models for spoken language recognition ", INTERSPEECH 2009: 200-203

  • Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, Kong-Aik Lee, Khe Chai Sim, Hanwu Sun, Rong Tong, Donglai Zhu, Changhuai You, "NIST 2007 Language Recognition Evaluation: From the Perspective of IIR", PACLIC 2008: 46-57

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Engsiong Chng, " Target-oriented phone tokenizers for spoken language recognition ", ICASSP 2008: 4221-4224

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Engsiong Chng, " Target-oriented phone selection from universal phone set for spoken language recognition ", INTERSPEECH 2008: 715-718

  • Rong Tong, Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, Engsiong Chng, Siu-Yeung Cho, " Spoken Language Recognition with Relevance Feedback ", ICASSP 2007: 861-864

  • Bin Ma, Rong Tong, Haizhou Li, "Discriminative Vector for Spoken Language Recognition", ICASSP 2007: 1001-1004

  • Jinyu Li, Sibel Yaman, Chin-Hui Lee, Bin Ma, Rong Tong, Donglai Zhu, Haizhou Li, "Language Recognition Based on Score Distribution Feature Vectors and Discriminative Classifier Fusion", Odyssey 2006: 1-5

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Donglai Zhu, Haizhou Li, Engsiong Chng, " Integrating Acoustic, Prosodic and Phonotactic Features for Spoken Language Identification ", ICASSP 2006: 205-208

  • Bin Ma, Donglai Zhu, Rong Tong, Haizhou Li, "Speaker cluster based GMM tokenization for speaker recognition", INTERSPEECH 2006

  • Bin Ma, Donglai Zhu, Rong Tong, "Chinese Dialect Identification Using Tone Features Based on Pitch Flux", ICASSP 2006: 1029-1032

  • Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Kong-Aik Lee, Changhuai You, Donglai Zhu, Tomi Kinnunen, Hanwu Sun, Minghui Dong, Chng Eng Siong, Haizhou Li, "Fusion of Acoustic and Tokenization Features for Speaker Recognition", ISCSLP 2006: 566-577

  • Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, Rong Tong, "Vector-based spoken language recognition using output coding", INTERSPEECH 2006

Books

  • Rong Tong, Yanfeng Lu, Minghui Dong, Wengao Gong, Haizhou Li: International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2022, Singapore, October 27-28, 2022. IEEE 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-7674-4 

  • Rong Tong, Yue Zhang, Yanfeng Lu, Minghui Dong, "2017 International Conference on Asian Language Processing ", IALP 2017, Singapore, December 5-7, 2017. IEEE 2017, ISBN 978-1-5386-1981-0

Teaching Modules

Information and Communications Technology (Software Engineering), BEng (Hons)

  • ICT2103 - Information Management
  • ICT4001 - Capstone Project

Computer Science in Real-Time Interactive Simulation, BSc (Hons)

  • CSD3185 - Machine Learning

Computer Science in Interactive Media and Game Development, BSc (Hons)

  • CSD3185 - Machine Learning

Information and Communications Technology (Information Security), BEng (Hons)

  • ICT4001 - Capstone Project