Publication

PhD Dissertation

    "From Data Resource Impacts to Fairness Realization in Speech Emotion Recognition" , National Tsing Hua University, March 2025.
    語音情緒辨識中之資料來源影響與公平性實現, 國立清華大學電機系, 2025年3月
    IEEE Taipei Section Best Doctoral Dissertation Award

MS Thesis

    "Back-propagation and Convolutional Neural Networks for Arrhythmia Electrocardiogram Classification" , National Chung Cheng University, July 2017.
    以倒傳遞及卷積神經網路辨識心律不整心電圖之研究, 國立中正大學電機系, 2017年7月

International journal

  1. Affective Priming in Emotional Annotations and its Effect on Speech Emotion Recognition
    Luz Martinez-Lucas, Ali Salman, Seong-Gyun Leem, Woan-Shiuan Chien, Shreya G. Upadhyay, Chi-Chun Lee and Carlos Busso
    TAFFC IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2025 Impact Factor: 9.8 (2024)
  2. Differential Impacts of Monologue and Conversation on Speech Emotion Recognition
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Shreya G. Upadhyay, Wei-Cheng Lin, Carlos Busso and Chi-Chun Lee
    TAFFC IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2024 Impact Factor: 9.8 (2024)
  3. Learning With Rater-Expanded Label Space to Improve Speech Emotion Recognition
    Shreya G. Upadhyay, Woan-Shiuan Chien , Bo-Hao Su, and Chi-Chun Lee
    TAFFC IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2024 Impact Factor: 9.8 (2024)

International Conference

  1. Audience-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation in Public Speaking via Anticipation Tokens
    Huan-Yu Chen, Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICASSP In Proceeding of the 51st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP‘26), Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, 2026.
  2. Rethinking Multilingual and Multimodal Interactive Datasets: Challenges, Limitations and Potentials
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Huan-Yu Chen, Shu-Ying Liu, Yuan-Liang An, Ching-Shin Hsiao, Yangyang Cai, Victor Pierre Schneider, Miao Cheng, Chia-Huei Tseng and Chi-Chun Lee
    ACII In Proceeding of 2025 13th IEEE International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW‘25), Canberra, Australia, October 8-11, 2025.
  3. Graph Structure Learning with Local Connectivity Refinement for Improved Physiological Emotion Recognition
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Mei-Yen Tsai and Chi-Chun Lee
    MLSP In Proceeding of 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP‘25), Istanbul, Turkey, August 31-September 3, 2025.
  4. Gradient-Aware Data Augmentation for Federated Stress Detection under Data Incompleteness
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Huan-Yu Chen and Chi-Chun Lee
    EMBC In Proceeding of 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC‘25), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 14-17, 2025.
  5. Instrument-Aware Representation Learning for Robust Cross-Site Flow Cytometry Integration
    Huan-Yu Chen, Woan-Shiuan Chien, Yu-Fen Wang, Bor-Sheng Ko and Chi-Chun Lee
    EMBC In Proceeding of 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC‘25), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 14-17, 2025.
  6. Leveraging Foundation Models for Clinically Instructed Tumor Image Synthesis in Renal Cell Carcinoma
    Huan-Yu Chen, Woan-Shiuan Chien, Ching-Heng Lin and Chi-Chun Lee
    ISBI In Proceeding of the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI‘25), Huston, TX, USA, April 14-17, 2025.
  7. Disentangle Heart Rate Signals for Improved Stress Detection
    Pin-Jhao Chen, Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICASSP In Proceeding of the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP‘25), Hyderabad, India, April 6-11, 2025.
  8. A Dynamic Edge-Selection Mechanism in HRV Hypergraph Learning for Improved Stress Detection
    Jing-Chun Wang, Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICASSP In Proceeding of the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP‘25), Hyderabad, India, April 6-11, 2025.
  9. Is It Still Fair? Investigating Gender Fairness in Cross-Corpus Speech Emotion Recognition
    Shreya G. Upadhyay, Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICASSP In Proceeding of the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP‘25), Hyderabad, India, April 6-11, 2025.
  10. Understanding Missing Data Bias in Longitudinal Mental Stress Detection
    Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    BSN In Proceedings of IEEE 21st International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN‘24), Chigago, USA, Oct 15-17, 2024. IEEE EMBS BSN Travel Awards
  11. Stress Detection Using HRV Features Augmentation Based on Heart Rate Signal Transformation
    Pin-Jhao Chen, Woan-Shiuan Chien, Huan-Yu Chen, and Chi-Chun Lee
    BSN In Proceedings of IEEE 21st International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN‘24), Chigago, USA, Oct 15-17, 2024.
  12. In-The-Wild HRV-Based Stress Detection Using Individual-Aware Metric Learning
    Jing-Chun Wang, Woan-Shiuan Chien, Huan-Yu Chen, and Chi-Chun Lee
    BSN In Proceedings of IEEE 21st International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN‘24), Chigago, USA, Oct 15-17, 2024.
  13. An Investigation of Group versus Individual Fairness in Perceptually Fair Speech Emotion Recognition
    Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    Interspeech In Proceeding of Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech‘24), Kos Island, Greece, Sep 1-5, 2024. Google Conference Scholarship
  14. An Inter-Speaker Fairness-Aware Speech Emotion Regression Framework
    Hsing-Hang Chou, Woan-Shiuan Chien, Ya-Tse Wu and Chi-Chun Lee
    Interspeech In Proceeding of Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech‘24), Kos Island, Greece, Sep 1-5, 2024.
  15. Balancing Speaker-Rater Fairness for Gender-Neutral Speech Emotion Recognition
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Shreya G. Upadhyay and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICASSP In Proceeding of the 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’24), Seoul, Korea, April 14-19, 2024. ACLCLP Outstanding Students Conference Travel Grant Merry Electroacoustic Thesis Award Finalist
  16. In-The-Wild Physiological-Based Stress Detection Using Federated Strategy
    Po-Chen Lin, Jeng-Lin Li, Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICASSP In Proceeding of the 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’24), Seoul, Korea, April 14-19, 2024.
  17. An Intelligent Infrastructure Toward Large Scale Naturalistic Affective Speech Corpora Collection
    Shreya G. Upadhyay*, Woan-Shiuan Chien* , Bo-Hao Su, Lucas Goncalves, Ya-Tse Wu, Ali N. Salman, Carlos Busso and Chi-Chun Lee
    ACII In Proceeding of the 11th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII ‘23), 2023 AAAC ACII 2023 Travel Bursary
  18. Achieving Fair Speech Emotion Recognition via Perceptual Fairness
    Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICASSP In Proceeding of the 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’23), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4-10, 2023. IEEE SPS ICASSP Travel Grant IEEE PROGRESS Student Travel Awards Google Conference Scholarship ACLCLP Outstanding Students Conference Travel Grant
  19. Phonetic Anchor-Based Transfer Learning To Facilitate Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Speech Emotion Recognition
    Shreya G. Upadhyay, Luz Martinez-Lucas, Bo-Hao Su, Wei-Cheng Lin, Woan-Shiuan Chien, Ya-Tse Wu, William Katz, Carlos Busso and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICASSP In Proceeding of the 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’23), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4-10, 2023.
  20. Monologue versus Conversation: Differences in Emotion Perception and Acoustic Expressivity
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Shreya G. Upadhyay, Wei-Cheng Lin, Ya-Tse Wu, Bo-Hao Su, Carlos Busso and Chi-Chun Lee
    ACII In Proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII’22), Hybrid Event / Nara, Japan, October 18-21, 2022.
  21. Self-assessed Emotion Classification from Acoustic and Physiological Features within Small-group Conversation
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Huang-Cheng Chou and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICMI In Companion Publication of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’21), Hybrid Event / Montreal, Canada, October 18-22, 2021.
  22. Belongingness and Satisfaction Recognition from Physiological Synchrony with A Group-Modulated Attentive BLSTM under Small-group Conversation
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Huang-Cheng Chou and Chi-Chun Lee
    ICMI In Companion Publication of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’21), Hybrid Event / Montreal, Canada, October 18-22, 2021.
  23. “Does it Matter When I Think You Are Lying?” Improving Deception Detection by Integrating Interlocutor’s Judgements in Conversations
    Huang-Cheng Chou, Woan-Shiuan Chien, Da-Cheng Juan and Chi-Chun Lee
    ACL In Findings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP’21), Virtual Event / Bangkok, Thailand, August 1-6, 2021. Merry Electroacoustic Thesis Award
  24. Cross Corpus Physiological-based Emotion Recognition Using a Learnable Visual Semantic Graph Convolutional Network
    Woan-Shiuan Chien, Hao-Chun Yang and Chi-Chun Lee
    ACMMM In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’20), Virtual Event / Seattle, USA, October 12-16, 2020. Acceptance rate: 27.8%
  25. Identification of Myocardial Ischemic and Infarction Episodes Based on ST Level and Beat Type Re-attribution Method
    Woan-Shiuan Chien and Sung-Nien Yu
    ICBIP In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing (ICBIP’17), Kitakyushu, Japan, August 23-25, 2017.

Patents

US Patents
  1. Method, Model Training Method and Computer Program Product for Speech Emotion Recognition
    Woan-Shiuan Chien and Chi-Chun Lee
    Patent App. US (issued XX XX, 2025)
  2. Recognition System and Recognition Method
    Woan-Shiuan Chien and Tzu-Lan Shen
    Patent App. US11216729 (issued Jan 4, 2022)
TW Patents
  1. 基於心血管生理訊號的壓力檢測方法與系統
    陳品肇, 簡婉軒, 李祈均
    Patent App. TWI859906 (issued Jan XX, 2026)
  2. 基於聯邦學習的模型訓練方法與系統
    林柏辰, 李政霖, 簡婉軒, 李祈均
    Patent App. TWI910914 (issued Jan 1, 2026)
  3. 語音情緒的辨識方法、模型訓練方法與電腦程式產品
    簡婉軒, 李祈均
    Patent App. TWI859906 (issued Oct 21, 2024)
  4. 微控制器更新系統和方法
    簡婉軒
    Patent App. TWI780382 (issued Oct 11, 2022)
  5. 辨識系統及辨識方法
    簡婉軒, 沈子嵐
    TW Patent App. TW1682325 (issued Jan 11, 2020)