• Dr Guan-Ming Su, Director, Dolby Labs

• Dr. Yusen Eason Lin, Founder & CEO, Wellgen Medical, Co., LTD.
• Dr. Jianquan Liu, Director & Senior Principal Researcher, NEC Corporation
• Dr. Hao Wu, Chief-Executive-Officer (CEO) of Shenzhen Ninenovo Technology and RingConn LLC

• 1. Research paper award: Yuki Okamoto, Keisuke Imoto, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Ryosuke Yamanishi, Takahiro Fukumori, and Yoichi Yamashita, for their paper "Onoma-to-wave: environmental sound synthesis from onomatopoeic words", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Vol. 11: No. 1, e13. 2022.
  2. Overview paper award: Xiaofeng Liu, Chaehwa Yoo, Fangxu Xing, Hyejin Oh, Georges El Fakhri, Je-Won Kang, and Jonghye Woo, for their paper "Deep unsupervised domain adaptation: a review of recent advances and perspectives" , APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Vol. 11: No. 1, e25. 2022

• Jong-Ok Kim (2026-2028)
• Kenneth K.M. Lam (2026-2028)
• Toshihisa Tanaka (2026-2028)
• Kok Sheik Wong (2026-2028)
• Ce Zhu (2026)

• Bonnie N.F. Law is elected as the VP-Conference (2026-2027)
• Chris Gwo Giun Lee is elected as the VP-Industrial Relations (2026-2027)
• Wen-Hsiao Peng is elected as the VP-Member Relations and Development (2026-2027)
• Sanghoon Lee is elected as the VP-Publications (2026-2027)

• Seishi Takamura is elected as the ATSIPA Editor-in-Chief
  (for a 2-year term starting on Jan 1, 2026)
• Jiaying Liu is elected as the ATSIPA Deputy Editor-in-Chief
  (for a 2-year term starting on Jan 1, 2026)

• Kosin Chamnongthai is elected as the President-elect (2025-2026)

• Isao Echizen is elected as the VP-IREP (2025-2026)
• Zixiang Xiong is elected as the VP-P (2025-2026)
• Mingyi He is elected as the VP-TA (2025-2026)

• Yoshinobu Kajikawa (2025-2027)
• Weisi Lin (2025)
• Wen-Hsiao Peng (2025-2026)
• Yuichi Tanaka (2025-2027)
• Hsin-Min Wang (2025-2027)
• H. Vicky Zhao (2025-2026)
• Thomas Fang Zheng (2025-2027)

• Stefan Winkler, AICS Research Director, National University of Singapore
• Serhad Doken, ADEIA CTO

• Kosin Camnongthai (2024-2026)
• Nancy F. Chen (2024-2026)
• Isao Echizen (2024-2026)
• Jing-Ming Guo (2024-2026)
• Zixiang Xiong (2024-2025)

• The 8th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2023 to Li, Jinyu, for their paper "Recent advances in end-to-end automatic speech recognition".

• Zicheng Liu, partner research manager, Microsoft Azure AI

• Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Chiang Mai University
• Zhengguo Li, Institute for Infocomm Research
• Chia-Wen Lin, National Tsing Hua University
• Boxin Shi, Peking University
• Nipon Theera-Umpon, Chiang Mai University
• Hong Vicky Zhao, Tsinghua University
• Chul Lee, Dongguk University
• Ming-Sui Lee, National Taiwan University

• Yanzhi Wang, Northeastern University, Chairman and former CEO of CoCoPIE Inc., USA
• Shuhao Wang, Co-founder and CTO of Thorough Future

• Shoji Makino (2023-2025)
• Gwo Giun Chris Lee (2023-2025)
• Nam Ik Cho (2023-2025)
• Waleed Abdula (2023-2025)

• The 7th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2022 to Bin Wang, Angela Wang, Fenxiao Chen, Yuncheng Wang, C.-C. Jay Kuo, for their paper "Evaluating word embedding models: methods and experimental results".

It is with great sadness that we report that Professor Sadaoki Furui passed away on July 31, 2022. He was the founding President of APSIPA serving from 2009 to 2012. He was a pioneering researcher in the speech area, an inspirational leader, and a close friend to many of us. He was instrumental in helping to establish and provided distinguished leadership to APSIPA. We will all greatly miss him. The next APSIPA newsletter will have a memorial article dedicated to Prof. Furui and at this year’s APSIPA ASC in Chiang Mai, Thailand we will have a special event and sessions to celebrate his life and achievements.

• Ronald Chang , Academia Sinica
• Fei Chen , Southern University of Science and Technology
• Yuchao Dai , Northwestern Polytechnical University
• Kazunori Hayashi, Kyoto University
• Yipeng Liu , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
• Zhanyu Ma , Beijing University of Posts and Telecom
• Simon Pun , Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Shang-Ho Tsai , National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
• Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Kyoto University

• Kosin Chamnongthai is elected as the VP - Conferences (2022-2023)
• Seishi Takamura is elected as the VP - Industrial Relations and Development (2022-2023)
• Ning Xu is elected as the Deputy VP - Industrial Relations and Development (2022-2023)
• Toshihisa Tanaka is elected as the VP - Member Relations and Development (2022-2023)
• Woon-Seng Gan is elected as the VP - Publications (2022-2023)

• Yoshinobu Kajikawa (2022-2024)
• Kenneth Lam (2022-2024)
• Sanghoon Lee (2022-2024)
• KokSheik Wong (2022-2024)

• The 6th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2021 to Hiroshi Sawada, Nobutaka Ono, Hirokazu Kameoka, Daichi Kitamura, Hiroshi Saruwatari, for their paper " A review of blind source separation methods: two converging routes to ILRMA originating from ICA and NMF".

• Mr. Chia-Yung Su, CTO/Co-Founder, Appier
• Dr. Gerard Medioni,VP/Distinguished Scientist, Amazon
• Dr. Jinyu Li, Partner Applied Scientist, Microsoft

• Jewon KANG, Ewha Womans Univ
• Yuhong LIU, Santa Clara Univ
• Jae-Young SIM, Ulsan National Inst of Sci and Tech
• Wan-chi SIU, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ
• Ye WANG, National Univ of Singapore
• Zhiyong WANG, Univ of Sydney
• Changshui ZHANG, Tsinghua Univ
• Ce ZHU, Univ of Electronic Science and Tech of China

• Dr. Pengfei Xia, Principal Engineer, Amazon
• Dr. Ching-Yung Lin, CEO, Graphen / Adj. Prof. Columbia University
• Dr. Shingo Tsukada, NTT Fellow, NTT

• Dr Joe Yeh, Co-Founder & CEO aetherAI Co., Ltd

• Yuichi Nakamura, VP, Executive Specialist, NEC
• Danilo Pau, Technical Director, STMicroelectronics
• Yu Huang, VP of Technology, Autonomous Driving Research, Blacksesame Technology Inc.
• Xuejing Sun, CEO, Twirling Technologies
• Hitoshi Imaoka, NEC Fellow, NEC

• Isao Echizen (2021-2023)
• Jing-Ming Guo (2021-2023)
• Bonnie Ngai-Fong Law (2021-2023)
• Antonio Ortega (2021-2023)
• Nam Ik Cho (2021-2022)
• Chris Gwo Giun Lee (2021-2022)

• The 5th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2020 to Evangelos Alexiou, Irene Viola, Tomas M. Borges, Tiago A. Fonseca, Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Touradj Ebrahimi, for their paper " A comprehensive study of the rate-distortion performance in MPEG point cloud compression".

• Prof. Tatsuya Kawahara is elected as the President-Elect (2021-2022)
• Prof. Mingyi He is elected as the VP - Institutional Relations and Education Program (2021-2022)
• Prof. Yih-Fang Huang is elected as the VP - Technical Activities (2021-2022)

• Dr. Wei-Chao Chen, Co-founder and Chairman, Skywatch

1. Advanced Signal Processing for 5G Wireless Communication Systems
2. High-Performance Image and Video Processing and Applications

• Kok Sheik Wong is elected as the Editor-in-Chief
• Sanghoon Lee is elected as the Vice Editor-in-Chief

• Tao Mei, Deputy Managing Director, JD AI Research
• Ali Tabatabai, VP, Sony
• Aldo Badano, Senior Biomedical Researcher, US Food and Drug Administration
• Yeong-Taeg Kim, Samsung Electronics

• The 4th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2019 to Sachin Chachada, C.-C. Jay Kuo, for their paper " Environmental sound recognition: a survey".

• Kosin Chamnongthai is elected as the VP - Conference (2020-2021)
• Seishi Takamura is elected as the VP – Industrial Relations and Development (2020-2021)
• Yoshinobu Kajikawa is elected as the VP – Member Relations and Development (2020-2021)
• Kenneth K.M. Lam is elected as the VP – Publications (2020-2021)

• 3-year term (2020-2022)
  • Waleed H. Abdulla
  • Mingyi He
  • Kazuya Takeda
• 1-year term (2020):
  • Sanghoon Lee

• Wenjun Zeng, Sr. Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia
• Yunqu Leon Liu, President, Viscore Technologies
• Qingxiong Yang, CEO, MoonX
• Bowen Zhou, VP, JD.com

• Jing Xiao, Chief Scientist, PingAn Insurance Group
• Jianle Chen, VP, America Media Lab of Huawei Technologies
• Samir N. Hulyalkar, VP, Dolby Labs
• Jungwon Lee, VP, Samsung SoC Lab
• Shan Liu, VP and General Manager, Tencent Media Lab

• C.N. Lee is elected as the VP – Technical Activities (2019-2020)

• 3-year term (2019-2021, from now to the end of APSIPA ASC 2021):
  • Min Wu,
  • Chung-Hsien Wu,
  • Hiroshi Saruwatari,
  • Kai-Kuang Ma
• 1-year term (2019):
  • Mingyi He

• Anthony Kuh is elected as the President-elect (2019-2020)
• Woon-Seng Gan is elected as the VP – Institutional Relations and Education Program (2019-2020)

• The third award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2018 to Chung-Hsien Wu, Jen-Chun Lin, Wen-Li Wei, for their paper "Survey on audiovisual emotion recognition: databases, features, and data fusion strategies".

• Hemant A Patil, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
• Hiroshi Saruwatari, The University of Tokyo
• Junosng Yuan, Nanyang Technological University
• Dong Wang, Tsinghua University
• Jie Chen, Northwestern Polytechical University
• Chuang Shi, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
• Xiangui Kang, Sun Yat-sen University
• Jiaching Wang, National Central University
• Xie Lei, Northwestern Polytechnical University

• Naonori Ueda, NTT Fellow, NTT
• James Bankoski, Director, Google/li>
• Amir Said, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm/li>
• Chung-Sheng Li, Global Research Managing Director, Accenture Operations/li>
• Akihiko Sugiyama, Research Fellow, NEC/li>
• Kar-Han Tan, VP, Novumind/li>

• 3-year term (2018-2020, from now to the end of APSIPA ASC 2020):
  • Yo-Sung Ho,
  • Tatsuya Kawahara,
  • Susanto Rahardja,
  • Bonnie Ngai-Fong Law
• 1-year term (2018):
  • Kai-Kuang Ma

• The second award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2017 to Yoshinobu Kajikawa, Woon-Seng Gan, Sen M. Kuo for their paper "Recent advances on active noise control: open issues and innovative applications".

• Thomas Fang Zheng is elected as the VP - Conferences (2018-2019), it is his second term.
• Guan-Ming Su is elected as the VP - Industrial Relations and Development (2018-2019), it is his first term.
• Yoshinobu Kajikawa is elected as the VP - Member Relations and Development (2018-2019), it is his first term.
• Kin-Man Lam, Kenneth is elected as the VP - Publication (2018-2019), it is his first term.
• Anthony Kuh is elected as the VP - Technical Activities (2018-2019), it is his second term.

• Chandrakant Patel, Senior Fellow and Chief Engineer, Hewlett Packard
• Chien-Ping Lu, VP Engineering, Novumind Inc.
• Charlie Zhang, VP, Samsung Research America
• Haohong Wang, General Manager, TCL Research America
• Yong Rui, Sr. VP and CTO, Lenovo
• David Stork, Rambus Fellow, Rambus Inc.

• Jindong Chen, Northwestern Polytech University
• Cuntai Guan, Nanyang Technological University
• Chang-Su Kim, Korea University
• Hakil Kim, Inha University
• Hong Kook Kim, GIST
• Shang-Hong Lai, Nat'l Tsinghua University
• Wen-Hsiao Peng, Nat'l Chiao Tung University
• Guangming Shi, Xidian University
• Hwangjun Song, POSTECH
• Dong Yu, Microsoft Research

• 3-year term (from now to the end of APSIPA ASC 2019):
  Toshihisa Tanaka, Kosin Chamnongthai, Nam Ik Cho and Chung-Nan Lee
  
  
• 1-year (from now to the end of APSIPA ASC 2017):
  Suparvadee Armavith

• Bo Begole, VP, Global Head of Media Technologies Lab, Huawei R&D
• Achin Bhowmik, VP and General Manager, Perceptual Computing Group, Intel Corporation
• Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute, CMCC
• Takehiro Moriya, Research Fellow & Direcor, NTT Fellow, Moriya Research Lab

1. Speaker: Prof. Nobuaki Minematsu, The University of Tokyo
   Title: Speech structure and its application to speech processing
   Time: 13:30-15:00, 3 June 2016 (Friday)
   Venue: MERL, Boston, USA
   Local host: Dr. Shinji Watanabe
   
   
2. Speaker: Prof. Nobuaki Minematsu, The University of Tokyo
   Title: OJAD and its use for practical prosody training of Japanese
   Time: 9:00-12:30, 4 June 2016 (Saturday)
   Venue: Boston University, Boston, USA
   Local host: Dr. Emi Yamanaka

• Wen-Huang Cheng, Academia Sinica
• Gene Cheung, National Institute of Informatics
• Chih-Tsung Huang, National Tsinghua University
• Zhu Li, University of Missouri
• Jiaying Liu, Peking University
• Chia-Hung Yeh, National Sun Yat-Sen University
• Jiangtao Wen, Tsinghua University

• Chung-Min Chen, VP, Telcordia
• Lawrance Loh, President, MediaTek USA Inc.
• Nikhil Balram, President & CEO, Ricoh Innovations
• Yasunori Mochizuki, VP, NEC
• Yi Hao, CEO, GWC,

• VP Conferences: Prof Thomas Fang Zheng
• VP Industrial Relations and Development: Prof Shan Liu
• VP Member Relations and Development: Prof Kin-Man Lam, Kenneth
• VP Publications: Prof Tatsuya Kawahara
• VP Technical Activities: Prof Anthony Kuh

• Mrityunjoy Chakraborty
• Homer H. Chen
• Hsueh-Ming Hang
• Yoshinobu Kajikawa
• Kazuya Takeda
• Toshihisa Tanaka