Zixiaofan (Brenda) Yang 杨子小帆

Zixiaofan Yang, Ph.D. student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University E-mail: zy2231 [at] columbia [dot] edu brenda [at] cs [dot] columbia [dot] edu

I am a Ph.D. student in the Spoken Language Processing Group at Columbia University under the supervision of professor Julia Hirschberg. My research interests focus on computational paralinguistics and cross-lingual natural language processing. Previously, I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science and B.Ec. degree in Economics from Peking University.

Publications

• What Makes a Speaker Charismatic? Producing and Perceiving Charismatic Speech
  Zixiaofan Yang, Jessica Huynh, Riku Tabata, Nishmar Cestero, Tomer Aharoni, Julia Hirschberg
  Speech Prosody, 2020.
  

• Linguistically-informed Training of Acoustic Word Embeddings for Low-resource Languages
  Zixiaofan Yang, Julia Hirschberg
  Interspeech, 2019.
  

• Predicting Humor by Learning from Time-aligned Comments
  Zixiaofan Yang, Bingyan Hu, Julia Hirschberg
  Interspeech, 2019.
  

• Multimodal Indicators of Humor in Videos
  Zixiaofan Yang, Lin Ai, Julia Hirschberg
  IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), 2019.
  

• Predicting Arousal and Valence from Waveforms and Spectrograms using Deep Neural Networks
  Zixiaofan Yang, Julia Hirschberg
  Interspeech, 2018.
  

• OS-ELM Based Emotion Recognition for Empathetic Elderly Companion
  Zixiaofan Yang, Qiong Wu, Cyril Leung, Chunyan Miao
  The International Conference on Extreme Learning Machines (ELM), 2014.