(i) Name: Yu Chen （陈彧）
(ii) Academic qualifications
2023 Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Victoria, CA.
2011 Ph.D., Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Nankai University.
2006 M.A., Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Nankai University.
2003 B.A., Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Henan Normal University.
(iii) Present academic position
2024- Professor, Southeast University. Department of English, School of Foreign Studies.
2024- Adjunct Professor, Tianjin University of Technology. Department of Computer Science, Technical College for the Deaf.
2025- Adjunct Professor, Qufu Normal University. School of Psychology.
(iv) Previous academic positions held
2020-2023 Professor, Tianjin University of Technology. Department of Computer Science, Technical College for the Deaf.
2018-2019 Guest Researcher, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. School of Information Science.
2015-2019 Associate Professor, Tianjin University of Technology. Department of Chinese Linguistics, School of Chinese Language and Culture.
2014-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Tianjin University. Department of Computer Science, College of Intelligence and Computing.
2014 Associate Professor, Henan Normal of University. Department of Chinese Linguistics, School of Literature.
2011-2013 Lecturer, Henan Normal of University. Department of Chinese Linguistics, School of Literature.
2006-2009 Lecturer, Tianjin Conservatory of Music. Department of Fundamental Course.
(v) Present research project
2024- The Construction of Chinese Deaf Pathological Speech Dataset, AISHELL, 100,000 CNY.
2025- The Development of Chinese Auditory and Speech Assessment System, Nurotron, 50,000 CNY.
2025- The Study on Mandarin Emotional Speech Audiometry for Hearing-Impaired Children Based on Zero-Sample Speech Synthesis, Jiangsu Provincial Social Science Foundation, 50,000 CNY.
2025- The Cognitive Computing and Application Study of Second Language Learning in Delaying Cognitive Aging, Annual Research Project of National Language Commission, 100,000 CNY.
2025- Cognitive Decline and Plasticity in Aging: A Case Study on Processing and Virtual-reality Learning of Chinese Tones, HKUST-SEU Joint Research Seed Fund, 100,000 CNY.
(vi) Previous relevant research work
Elucidating the articulatory dynamics and cross-modal perception patterns of L2 phonological acquisition, with a particular emphasis on atypical speech characteristics observed in hearing-impaired populations, employing multimodal approaches including ultrasound, EEG, and eye-tracking; developing intelligent assistive systems integrating psycholinguistic principles for speech rehabilitation; supervising Master and PhD students in the fields of linguistics, psychology, and computer science.; being the PI/Co-PI of grants funded by the Social Sciences Research Project of Jiangsu Province, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of the Ministry of Education, and National Social Science Foundation.
(vii) Publication records
Section A - Five most representative publications in the last five years
2025 Chen, Y., Wang, Y., & Bird, S. Mandarin Tone Production in Prelingually Deaf Adults with Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Newly Published, Pages 1-21. (Author 1 of 3).
2025 Chen, Y., Wang, Y., Cao, S., & Li, Y. Mandarin Citation Tone Perception in Prelingually Deaf Adults. Lingua, 328, 104058. (Author 1 of 4).
2025 Chen, Y., Cao, S., Zhou, Z., & Cheng, K. Seeing emotions: an eye-tracking study of emotion recognition in deaf individuals amid facial occlusions. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1496259. (Author 1 of 4).
2025 Chen, Y., Huang, J., & Cheng, K. Transposed- and substituted-character effects in written word recognition by Chinese prelingually deaf adults: Evidence from mouse-tracking technology. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. (Author 1 of 3).
2024 Cheng, K., Chen, Y., Yan, H., & Wang, L. The role of consciousness in Chinese nominal metaphor processing: A psychophysical approach. Language and Cognition, 16(4): 1–17. (Author 2 of 4).
Section B - Five representative publications beyond the recent five-year period
2020 Chen, Y., Liu, H., Yu, M., & Dang. J. The repetition effect and transposed-letter effect on English visual word recognition: Data from Late unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals. Lingua, 102777. (Author 1 of 4).
2020 Wang, J., Zhu, Y., Chen, Y., Mamat, A., Yu, M., Zhang, J., & Dang. J. An Eye-Tracking Study on Audio-Visual Speech Perception Strategies Adopted by Normal-Hearing and Deaf Adults Under Different Language Familiarities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 63(7), 2245–2254. (Author 3 of 7, Correspondence Author).
2019 Chen, Y., Zhang, J., Sieg, J., & Chen. YT. Is [ɤ] in Mandarin a Transitional Vowel? --- Evidence from Tongue Movement by Ultrasound Imaging. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 47(2), 371–405. (Author 1 of 4).
2017 Chen, Y. The Physiological Distribution Pattern of the Basic Vowels in Standard Chinese (In Chinese). Nankai Linguistics, 29(1), 11–20.
2014 Chen, Y. A Study on the Relationship between Broadcasting Speech Rate and Speech Clarity (In Chinese). Journalism and Mass Communication, 18, 26–31.
(viii) Five most representative research-related awards
2025 Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Scholar’s Award, The National Language Commission.
2018 IYL Travel Award, UAC2018 Organizing Committee
2014 Best Paper Award, Tianjin Linguistics Association
2009 Linguistics Fellowship, Linguistics Department, University of Victoria
2005 Graduate Student’s Research Grant, Taiwan Himalaya Foundation
(ix) keynotes and Invited Talks in 2025
2025.11 Invited talk on the 3rd Academic Symposium on Language and Health [Shanghai Jiaotong University], 21-23 November.
Keynote talk on the 3rd Annual Conference of the Language Cognition and Intelligent Development Special Committee, the Chinese Society for Modernization of Chinese Language [Shandong University], 7-9 November.
2025.10 Invited talk on the 19th The 20th China Forum on Disability Development [Nanjing University], 25-26 October.
Invited talk on the 20th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication [Zhenjiang University], 16-19 October.
2025.07 Keynote on the 9th National Academic Symposium on Second Language Processing [Northwest Normal University], 25-27 July.
2025.05 Invited talk: Visual Processing Strategies for Speech Comprehension by Deaf Individuals [School of Psychology, Qufu Normal University], 30 May.
(x) Journal refereeing (50+ journals; 100+ reviews)
Including but not limited to: Journal of Phonetics; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Journal of International Phonetic Association; Lingua; Phonetica; Clinic Linguistics and Phonetics; Brain and Language; Journal of Experimental Psychology; Acta Psychologica; SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences etc.
