Emotional prosody in Cantonese speech
I study how vocal cues encode emotion, and how listeners perceive those cues across speech contexts.
Researcher x AI Builder
I study emotion in speech and use AI to turn ideas into useful products.
I am currently an MPhil candidate in Chinese at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, working on the production and perception of Cantonese emotional speech.
Recently, I have been learning AI-assisted design and development workflows and applying them to public-facing work such as UniExp HK, a platform that connects researchers and participants in Hong Kong.
First-author JSLHR publication in 2025.
Researching Cantonese emotional speech in Hong Kong.
Built UniExp HK with an AI-assisted workflow.
Working across phonetics, education, and product thinking.
Featured project
UniExp HK
A Hong Kong platform that helps researchers recruit participants and helps participants discover paid or meaningful studies.
Research participation is often fragmented. Researchers need a clearer recruitment channel, while potential participants need a trustworthy, easy-to-understand entry point.
I helped shape and build a multilingual public-facing site that explains the platform quickly, lowers trust friction, and turns an abstract academic-service idea into a product people can actually use.
AI was useful for rapid ideation, content iteration, UI exploration, and implementation acceleration. I still made the product, narrative, and quality decisions manually.
The project matters because it takes a research-adjacent service and makes it understandable, trustworthy, and usable for real people on both sides of the platform.
What I did
- Product framing and bilingual content architecture
- Front-end implementation and experience design
- AI-assisted drafting, iteration, and development acceleration
Stack
Next.jsReactTypeScriptSEOBilingual UX
Research focus
Research areas and working methods.
My work brings together speech research, language education, and AI-assisted product development.
Tone, accentedness, and L2 Cantonese
My work also looks at tone production, accentedness, comprehensibility, and how advanced learners shape their Cantonese speech.
From research to real-world tools
I am interested in turning research-adjacent ideas into accessible digital experiences, especially with AI speeding up prototyping and implementation.
Recent updates
Recent work and milestones.
2026-04-07
Launched a bilingual personal website for research and AI practice.
The site now brings together current research, project work, and recent updates in one place.
2025-10-08
My first-author JSLHR article was published.
The paper explores how different acoustic features contribute to Cantonese vocal emotions.
Open reference2025-06-21
Served on the FoCaL-8 organizing committee in Hong Kong.
Community building continues to be an important part of how I work and learn.
Open reference2025-06-11
A new paper on L2 Cantonese tones was published in Applied Sciences.
The study analyzes advanced Mandarin-speaking learners and how they produce Cantonese tones.
Open referenceContact
If your work sits between research, communication, and practical digital products, let's talk.
The fastest path is email. I am especially open to research collaboration, invited talks, and bilingual product work shaped with AI-assisted workflows.