Xiang Zhang

Professor Xiang Zhang serves as President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong, combining academic leadership with active research in speech processing and machine learning. His work bridges theoretical and applied advancements in speech enhancement, depression detection, and multilingual speech recognition.

• Speech Enhancement: Comparative studies on long-context networks and selective state space models
• Acoustic Representation: Feature codecs, landmark extraction, and frame-rate analysis
• Mental Health Applications: Depression detection using large language models and speech timing
• Code-Switching Recognition: Interactive language biasing and alignment techniques
• Interdisciplinary Research: Unidirectional brain-computer interfaces and quantum language models

Recent publications highlight trends in transformer alternatives like Mamba architectures, self-supervised learning for speech tasks, and efficient diffusion-based audio processing. His work spans technical reporting, open-source dataset development, and pedagogical innovations in computational linguistics.