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General Information
| Full Name | Fu-An Chao |
| Contact | fuanchao@ntnu.edu.tw |
| Languages | Mandarin, English |
Work Experience
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2024 - now Research Assistant
National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) - Worked on CALL research including:
- Spoken Language Assessment (SLA)
- Automatic pronunciation assessment (APA)
- Mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD)
- Involved projects:
- The General English Proficiency Test (GEPT IPrep)
- Worked on CALL research including:
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2022 - 2023 Research & Development Engineer
Research Center for Psychological and Educational Testing (RCPET) - Worked on CALL research including:
- Automatic pronunciation assessment (APA)
- Mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD)
- Involved projects:
- Automatic pronunciation scoring system (TEEMI platform)
- Automatic word difficulty estimates
- Automatic literacy estimates
- Worked on CALL research including:
Education
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2018 - 2021 M.S. in Computer Science
National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) - GPA: 4.3 (4.3 scale)
- Advisor: Prof. Berlin Chen and Prof. Jeih-weih Hung
- Working on SE and robust ASR in SMIL Lab
Honors and Awards
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2021 MOST Student Conference Travel Grant - ICME 2021
Ministry of Science and Technology @ Taipei, Taiwan -
2021 Merry Electro Acoustic Thesis Award - Top 12 Finalist
Merry Electronics CO. LTD. @ Taichung, Taiwan -
2021 Academic Excellence Award - Spring '21
College of Science @ NTNU -
2019-2021 Excellent Master Award - Fall '19, Spring '20, Fall '20, Spring '21
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering @ NTNU
Challenge Competition
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2020 1st place on track 3
Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020 - Taiwanese ASR -
2020 2nd / 3rd place on closed / open track
Interspeech 2020 - Shared Task on Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-native Children Speech
Other Interests
- Sports: basketball, biking, hiking.
- Hobbies: traveling, movies, indie music, arts.