{"id":27185,"date":"2022-04-28T04:42:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T04:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www6.rs.polyu.edu.hk\/icreate\/?page_id=27185"},"modified":"2022-05-27T01:14:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:14:32","slug":"prof-man-wai-mak","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www6.rs.polyu.edu.hk\/icreate\/index.php\/prof-man-wai-mak\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Man Wai MAK"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"27185\" class=\"elementor elementor-27185\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45bf0562 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"45bf0562\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-74d72db\" data-id=\"74d72db\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-826ebd6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"826ebd6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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Currently, he is a Professor and Interim Head of the same department. Prof. Mak has authored over 200 articles in speaker recognition, machine learning, bioinformatics, and biomedical engineering. He also coauthored postgraduate textbooks &#8220;Biometric Authentication: A Machine Learning Approach,&#8221; Prentice-Hall, 2005 and &#8220;Machine Learning for Speaker Recognition,&#8221; Cambridge University Press, 2020. Prof. Mak has received three Faculty of Engineering Research Grant Achievement Awards and a Faculty Merit Award in Research and Scholarly Activities. He has served as a member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee from 2005&#8211;2007 and as an associate editor of IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. Prof. Mak is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Signal Processing Systems and IEEE Biometrics Compendium. He also served as a Technical Committee member of international conferences, including ICASSP and Interspeech, and gave a tutorial on machine learning for speaker recognition in Interspeech&#8217;2016. 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