General

Yan Nan is an Associate Professor in Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology. Yan Nan's research group is with the Center for Ambient Intelligence and Multimodal System, Institute of Advanced Integration Technology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, China. His group is devoted to developing advanced data analysis and pattern recognition methods for analyzing neuroimaging data and acoustic data, mainly electroencephalography (EEG) functional near - infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and pathological voices, and to applying these methods in decoding predicting neurological diseases and speech rehabilitation.




Research Areas

Yan Nan’s group research covers a variety of topics in computational neuroscience, biomedical signal processing, neural engineering, and acoustic signal processing. Our recent work is centered on pathological speech processing and neuroengineering


Education

2005-2009 PhD,  Department of Biomedical Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University

2002-2005 M.Eng, Department of Biomedical Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University

1998-2002 B.Sc., Department of Biomedical Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University


Experience

   
Work Experience

2012-pres. Research Associate Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2009-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Hong Kong


Publications

   
Papers

(1) Development and evaluation of a 3-D virtual pronunciation tutor for children with autism spectrum disorders, Plos One, 2019, 
(2) The characteristics of intelligence profile and eye gaze in facial emotion recognition in mild and moderate preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019, 
(3) A volumetric analysis of the vocal tract associated with laryngectomees using acoustic reflection technology, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2018,
(4) Multimodal emotion perception in children with autism spectrum disorder by eye tracking study, IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, 2018, 
(5) Acoustic and kinematic examination of dysarthria in Cantonese patients of Parkinson’s disease, International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2018, 
(6) Production of Cantonese tones using an ingressive airflow, International Conference on Asian Language Processing, 2018,
(7) Track your emotional perception of 3-D virtual talking head in human-computer interaction,  IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2018, 
(8) The development of categorical perception of Mandarin tones in four- to seven-year-old children, Journal of Child Language, 2017, 
(9) Top-down Modulation of Auditory-motor Integration During Speech Production: The Role of Working Memory, Journal of Neuroscience, 2017,
(10) Acoustic and Electroglottographic Characteristics Associated with Tracheoesophageal Speech of Cantonese, Rehabilitation Medicine, 2017, 
(11) Energy distribution analysis and nonlinear dynamical analysis of phonation in patients with Parkinson’s disease,  Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2017, 
(12) Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Alters Auditory-motor Integration For Voice Control, Scientific Reports, 2016, 
(13) The Impact of Parkinson’s Disease on the Cortical Mechanisms That Support Auditory-motor Integration for Voice Control, Human Brain Mapping, 2016, 
(14) The interaction of semantic and orthographic processing during Chinese sinograms recognition: An ERP Study, LNCS, 2016, 
(15) Deep Neural Networks for Voice Quality Assessment based on the GRBAS Scale, Proceeding of INTERSPEECH 2016, 2016, 
(16) The Influence of Language Experience on Categorical Perception of Vowels, Proceeding of INTERSPEECH 2016, 2016, 
(17) Impaired Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones and its Relationship to Language Ability in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Proceeding of INTERSPEECH 2016, 2016, 
(18) Automatic Assessment of Pathological Voice Quality Using Multidimensional Acoustic Analysis Based on the GRBAS Scale, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 2015, 
(19) The Development of Categorical Perception of Lexical Tones in Mandarin-speaking Preschoolers, Proceeding of INTERSPEECH 2015, 2015, 
(20) Energy Distribution Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia, Proceeding of INTERSPEECH 2015, 2015,
(21) Generalized Variable Parameter HMMs Based Acoustic-to-articulatory Inversion, Proceeding of INTERSPEECH 2015, 2015, 
(22) Identification of accent in spoken English by Cantonese ESL speakers, WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, 2015,
(23) WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, Proceeding of ICIST 2015, 2014, 
(24) A multi-channel multi-speaker articulatory database in Mandarin for speech visualization, proceeding of The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2014, 
(25) Multidimensional acoustic analysis for voice quality assessment based on the GRBAS scale, proceeding of The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2014, 
(26) Improving the Sound Quality of an Electronic Voice Box, Proceeding of Annual Summit and Conference of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, 2014, 
(27) Nonlinear dynamical analysis of laryngeal, esophageal and tracheoesophageal speech of Cantonese, Journal of Voice, 2013, 
(28) Vocal tract dimensional characteristics of professional male and female singers with different types of singing voices, International journal of speech-language pathology, 2013, 
(29) Multichannel linear descriptors analysis for sustained attention-related electroencephalography, NeuroReport, 2013, 
(30) Acoustical analysis of voice produced by Cantonese patients of unilateral vocal fold paralysis, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, 2013, 
(31) An interactive speech training system with virtual reality articulation for mandarin-speaking hearing impaired children, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, 2013, 
(32) Constructing a three-dimension physiological vowel space of the mandarin language using electromagnetic articulography, Proceedings of IEEE Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, 2013, 
(33) 一种应用虚拟发音头像的普通话聋儿言语康复系统, 《集成技术》, 
(34) Pitch Control in Esophageal and Tracheoesophageal Speech of Cantonese, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2012, 
(35) Constructing a physiological equivalent of the Cantonese vowel quadrilateral using electromagnetic articulography (EMA), Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 2012, 
(36) Vocal fold vibratory characteristics different associated with different professional singing voice types – An electroglottographic analysis., Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 2012,
(37) Vocal tract dimensional characteristics of professional male singers with differentsinging voice types, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 2012, 
(38) Effect of Augmented Auditory Feedback on Pitch Production Accuracy in Singing, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 2012, 
(39) Vocal tract dimensional characteristics of professional female singers with different types of singing voices, Proceedings ofthe 4th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, 2011
(40) Nonlinear dynamics of voices in esophageal phonation, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2011, 
(41) wareness of form-sound correspondence in Chinese children with dyslexia: Preliminary results from event-related potentials and time, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, 2011, 
(42) Deficits in processing characters in Chinese developmental dyslexia: Preliminary results from event-related potentials and time frequency analyses, International Journal of Linguistics, 2011, 
(43) Influence of English donor word stress on tonal assignment in Cantonese loanwords – An acoustic account, Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2011,
(44) Analysis of propagation of multi-channel EEG in the test of sustained attention, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, 2010, 
(45) Designing a brain-computer interface device for neurofeedback using virtual environments, Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2008, 
(46) Brain-computer interfaces based on attention and complex mental tasks, e-Minds: International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction, 2008, 
(47) Brain-computer interfacesbased on attentionandcomplex mental tasks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007,
(48) 基于样本熵的注意力相关脑电特征信息提取与分类, 《西安交通大学学报》, 2007, 
(49) 基于虚拟现实技术的脑电生物反馈系统的开发, 中国生物医学工程联合年会, 2007, 
(50) 应用非负矩阵分解方法提取注意力相关脑电特征, 《生物物理学报》, 2006, 
(51) Development of EEG biofeedback system based on virtual reality environment, Proceeding of the 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005, 
(52) Design of a radial basis function neural network for attention tasks event related potentials extraction, Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Neural Interface and Control, 2005, 

Patents

Intelligent Property

1.         Zhang D., Yan N., Wang L. and Wang ZJ.Methods, System and Instrument for dysarthria assessment. National Invention Patent of China, CN 201310713782.92015.11.18.

2.         Mao Y., Wang L., Yan N. and Xie XR., An adaptive method and platform for language training. National Invention Patent of China, CN 201310627536.12016.08.17

3.         Liu SS., Yan N., Wang L. and Wang ZJ.A method and system for detection voice disorders. National Invention Patent of China, CN201310713471.22014.04.16.

4.         Yan N. and Wang L., An evaluation method and system for Speech language impairment based on multimodal interaction. National Invention Patent of China,


Research Interests

Yan Nan’s general research interests lie in the areas of Speech and Language Processing, Acoustical Analysis, Objective Assessment for Voice Disorders, Speech Rehabilitation System, Speech Cognitive Neuroscience. His current research focuses on objective assessment of pathological voices using acoustic analysis and machine learning methods; study on the acoustic, kinematic and aerodynamic characteristics in individuals with articulation inaccuracy as in dysarthrics; developing more effective rehabilitation regimes for voice/speech disorders, investigating the brain changes in clinical populations such Aphasia and Dementia by using (including eye-tracker, ERPs, EEG, fNIRS) and neural impairment and neuroplasticity mechanism in communication disorders.


Collaboration

Prof. Liu Hanjun,The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University;

Associate Prof. Ng Lawrence. Manwa, The Universtiy of Hong Kong;

Prof. Guo Yi, Shenzhen People‘s Hospital;

Prof. Chang Chunqi, The Universtity of Shenzhen;

Prof. Zhang Zhiguo, The Universtity of Shenzhen;

Assistent Prof. SU I-fan, The Universtiy of Hong Kong;

Students

现指导学生

严泉雷  硕士研究生  085211-计算机技术  

连重源  硕士研究生  085211-计算机技术  

莫贵明  硕士研究生  085208-电子与通信工程  

Honors & Distinctions

 2015 Shenzhen Overseas High-Caliber Personnel (Level C).

燕楠 2013 Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE-ICIA