Houwei Cao

Houwei Cao

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Computer Science

Campus: New York City

Areas of expertise: Data Science, Machine Learning, Speech and Natural Language Processing, Affective Computing

Education Credentials: Ph.D.

Joined New York Tech: 2016


Houwei Cao is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). She was an adjunct professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Tandon School of Engineering of New York University before joining New York Tech. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011, and worked on an RGC grant on automatic speech recognition of Cantonese-English code-mixing speech. She was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2014 and worked on an NIH grant on the computational quantification of emotion in faces and voice for neuropsychiatry. While at Tufts University from 2014 to 2015, Cao worked on an NSF grant on social robotics and Parkinson's disease. She was also an Insight Data Science fellow in 2015.

Cao’s main areas of research are signal processing; machine learning; data mining and its applications in human-centric data analytics, with emphasis on developing computational methods for speech recognition; text analytics; affect detection; and healthcare analysis. She won the audiovisual emotion recognition challenge (AVEC) in 2012. Cao is a member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), and IEEE. She has served as a reviewer for numerous conferences and journals including Interspeech, ISCSLP, O-COCOSDA, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Speech Communications, and IET Computer Vision.

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