awards

Honors, awards, and challenge wins

Individual Honors

  • OPPO Excellent Industry-Academia Research Cooperation Partner, 2025
  • OPPO Excellent Industry-Academia Research Cooperation Partner, 2024
  • Interspeech 2024 Best Student Paper Shortlist
  • DKU ECE Teaching Award, 2024
  • DKU ECE Teaching Award, 2023
  • Excellent Research Paper Award of Suzhou City 2020-2021
  • Youth Achievement Award of Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Chinese Higher Education, 2020
  • CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Foundation Excellence Award, 2019
  • Excellent Research Paper Award of Suzhou City 2018-2019
  • ISCA Award for the best paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2013-2017), 2016
  • IBM Faculty Award, 2016
  • ISCSLP 2014 Best Student Paper Award
  • IEEE DCOSS 2009 Best Paper Award

Challenge Competition Awards

Works co-authored with Prof. Li’s colleagues have won first prize awards at the following challenges:

  • Interspeech 2025 MISP Challenge — Audio-Visual Speaker Diarization Track
  • Interspeech 2025 Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Challenge — Binaural Track
  • Interspeech 2024 Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Challenge — Task 1 (Constrained Data)
  • ICME 2024 Chat-scenario Chinese Lipreading Challenge — Wake Word Lipreading Task
  • VoxSRC 2023 Challenge — Speaker Diarization Task and Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation Task
  • IJCAI 2023 ADD Challenge — Manipulation Region Location Task
  • ICASSP 2023 MISP Challenge — Audio-Visual Diarization Task
  • VoxSRC 2022 Challenge — Speaker Diarization Task
  • ICASSP 2022 Grand Challenge M2MeT — Speaker Diarization Task
  • ASVspoof 2021 Challenge — Physical Access Task
  • VoxSRC 2021 Challenge — Self-supervision Speaker Verification Task and Speaker Diarization Task
  • INTERSPEECH 2021 Fearless Steps Challenge — Speaker Verification Task and Speaker Diarization Task
  • INTERSPEECH 2020 Fearless Steps Challenge — Speaker Verification Task
  • ASRU 2019 MGB-5 Challenge — Automatic Language Identification Task
  • INTERSPEECH 2019 Computational Paralinguistic Challenge — Orca Activity Sub-Challenge Prize
  • INTERSPEECH 2012 Computational Paralinguistic Challenge — Pathology Sub-Challenge Prize
  • INTERSPEECH 2011 Computational Paralinguistic Challenge — Intoxication Sub-Challenge Prize