About Me

I'm a senior applied scientist in Alexa Perceptual Technologies (APT) of Alexa AI. I lead a small group of talented scientists to build scalable machine learning systems towards enriching Alexa's capability beyond speech.
Before joining Alexa, I worked with Professor Karen Livescu in Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC) on speech representation learning. I used to collaborate with Professor Kevin Gimpel on NLP projects and work with Aly Khan on computational immunology.

Selected Recent Publications

For a complete list of my publications, please see my Google Scholar or Semantics Scholar.

Wikitag: Wikipedia-based Knowledge Embedding Towards Improved Acoustic Event Classification
Qin Zhang, Qingming Tang , Chieh-Chi Kao, Ming Sun, Yang Liu, Chao Wang
ICASSP 2022

Improved Representation Learning for Acoustic Event Classification Using Tree-structured Ontology
Arman Zharmagambetov, Qingming Tang , Chieh-Chi Kao, Qin Zhang, Ming Sun, Viktor Rozgic, Jasha Droppo, Chao Wang
ICASSP 2022

Federated Self-supervised Learning for Acoustic Event Classification
Meng Feng, Chieh-chi Kao, Qingming Tang , Ming Sun, Viktor Rozgic, Spyros Matsoukas, Chao Wang
ICASSP 2022

Media Presence Detection
Qingming Tang , Ming Sun, Chieh-chi Kao, Chao Wang and Viktor Rozgic
US Patent 11,069,352, 2021

Improved student model training for acoustic event detection models
Anthea Cheung, Qingming Tang , Chieh-chi Kao, Ming Sun, Chao Wang
DCASE 2021

Multi-task self-supervised pre-training for music classification
Ho-Hsiang Wu, Chieh-chi Kao, Qingming Tang , Ming Sun, Brian McFee, Juan Pablo Bello, Chao Wang
ICASSP 2021

Unsupervised pre-training of bidirectional speech encoders via masked reconstruction.
Weiran Wang, Qingming Tang , Karen Livescu
ICASSP 2020

Controllable Paraphrase Generation with a Syntactic Exemplar.
Mingda Chen, Qingming Tang , Sam Wiseman, Kevin Gimpel
ACL 2019

Hierarchical Residual-pyramidal Model for Large Context Based Media Presence Detection.
Qingming Tang , Ming Sun, Chieh-Chi Kao, Viktor Rozgic, Chao Wang
ICASSP 2019

A Multi-Task Approach for Disentangling Syntax and Semantics in Sentence Representations.
Mingda Chen, Qingming Tang , Sam Wiseman, Kevin Gimpel
NAACL 2019

Variational Sequential Labelers for Semi-Supervised Learning.
Mingda Chen, Qingming Tang , Karen Livescu and Kevin Gimpel
EMNLP 2018

Acoustic Feature learning using cross-domain articulatory measurements.
Qingming Tang, Weiran Wang and Karen Livescu
ICASSP 2018

Single-Cell Genomics: Approaches and Utility in Immunology.
Karlynn E. Neu, Qingming Tang, Patrick C. Wilson, and Aly A. Khan
Trends in Immunology (2017) [Paper]

Acoustic Feature Learning via Deep Variational Canonical Correlation Analysis
Qingming Tang, Weiran Wang and Karen Livescu
Interspeech 2017 [Paper] [Code] [Data]

BASIC: BCR assembly from single cells.
Stefan Canzar, Karlynn E. Neu, Qingming Tang, Patrick C. Wilson, and Aly A. Khan
Bioinformatics (2016) [Paper]

Learning Scale-Free Networks by Dynamic Node Specific Degree Prior.
Qingming Tang, Siqi Sun and Jinbo Xu
ICML 2015 [Pdf, Supplementary, Code]

Exact Hybrid Covariance Thresholding for Joint Graphical Lasso.
Qingming Tang, Chao Yang, Jian Peng and Jinbo Xu
ECML/PKDD 2015 [Pdf, Proof, Figure, Code]

Professional Services

I'm serving as reviewers for the below conferences:
ICLR (from 2018), NeulPS (from 2019), ASRU (from 2019), EMNLP (from 2019), Interspeech (from 2020), ICASSP (from 2020), ACL (from 2020), NAACL (from 2020), SLT (from 2021), ECCV (2021) and ICML (from 2022).

I'm serving as reviewers for the below journals:
Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Knowledge-Based Systems, and The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and Neural Computation

I used to review below computational biology conferences and journals:
Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), Interdisciplinary Sciences and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Recent Patents

Media Presence Detection
Qingming Tang , Ming Sun, Chieh-chi Kao, Chao Wang and Viktor Rozgic
US Patent 11,069,352, 2021

Other four confidential patents have been filed