Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science
- OGI School of Science and Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University
- M.S., Computer Science
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- B.S., Electrical Engineering
- University of Hong Kong
Professional Services
- Associate Editor
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2006 - 2008)
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2009 - now)
Speech Communication (2005 - now) - Technical Member of the Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee of IEEE's Signal Processing Society (2006 - 2008)
- Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing (2009 - 2010)
Awards
- Best Paper Award (2004) in the area of Speech Processing from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2004. The awarded paper is co-authored with Dr. Enrico Bocchieri and its citation is: E. Bocchieri and B. Mak, "Subspace distribution clustering hidden Markov model," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 9(3):264--275, March 2001.
- Best Ten Lecturers (2006). The annual election of the "Best Ten Lecturers" was organized by the student union, VERTEX, of House II (one of the UG Halls) of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- Teaching Award (2000) from the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for "Teaching Excellence Appreciation" in the Spring Semester of 2000.