Prof. Xunying Liu's PhD student, Mr. Xurong Xie, co-supervised with Prof. Tan Lee of EE Department, won the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Best Student Paper Award by the paper "BLHUC: Bayesian Learning of Hidden Unit Contributions for Deep Neural Network Speaker Adaptation".  The paper was co-authored by Xurong Xie, Xunying Liu, Tan Lee, Shoukang Hu (SEEM PhD candidate), and Lan Wang.  Prof. Alan V. Oppenheim of MIT and Prof. Tony Constantinides of Imperial College London presented the award to Xurong during the award ceremony.

https://2019.ieeeicassp.org/program#awards
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8682667