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Xingyan LiResearch FellowDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Auckalnd Phone: +64 (9) 373 7599 extension 87727 Fax: +64 (9) 373 7461 Email: xingyan.li(at)auckland.ac.nz |
Mailing Address Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland 1142, New Zealand Physical Address Building 301, Room 333 38 Princes Street Auckland, New Zealand |
Xingyan (pronounced as "shing-yen") Li received her Master Degree in 2005 and her Ph.D. in 2008 both in Computer Science from University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA. During her PhD, she worked with Dr. Lynne Parker at the Distributed Intelligence Laboratory on Tightly-Coupled Multi-Robot Team Tasks.
Before she went to the United States for graduate studies in 2003, she finished her undergraduate studies at Beijing University of Posts&Telecommunications in 2001 and worked as a software engineer at Huawei Technologies. In late 2008, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of The University of Auckland, New Zealand, as a Research Fellow.My research interests are at the interaction and co-operation in robotic systems.
On the interaction side, I am currently focusing on human-robot interaction problems, especially techniques that enable the robot to communicate with people in a nature, friendly and efficient way. These techniques include empathetic speech synthesis, expressive virtual face animation, and human speech recognition. I had also worked on a camera based human gesture recognition application. On the co-operation side, I am currently investigating on service and industrial robot assistant systems. These systems allow the robot to act as an assistant, support people to accomplish given tasks in both general service and industrial scenarios. In the past, I had also worked on automatic fault detection and co-operation between robots in the tightly-coupled multi-robot team tasks.