Mr. Lifa Sun (PhD candidate, Supervisor: Prof. Helen Meng) has received the Best Paper Award from the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2016), Seattle, USA, July 11-15, 2016. 

ICME has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities.  The paper, coauthored with Kun Li, Hao Wang, Shiyin Kang (who are also PhD candidates in SEEM), is entitled "Phonetic Posteriorgrams for Many-to-one Voice Conversion without Parallel Data Training" (http://www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~hccl/publications/pub/2016_paper_297.pdf)