Academic Staff

EF745
+852 2766 4574
cymie.ng@polyu.edu.hk

學歷

Doctor of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Academic and Professional Experience

2020 - Present
Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Language Science and Technology, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2022 - Present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2008 - 2018
Clinical Supervisor, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
2013 - 2015
Lecturer, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

Teaching Areas

Speech Sound Disorder
Language Disorder
Theories of Learning and Motivation

Ng, C.W.Y. (2025) “掌握發音：從咿咿呀呀到準確發音” and “口齒不清怎麼辦？” in Ng, H.Y. (Ed) 2025 “淺談全方位兒童語言發展”. Ch.3 & Ch. 8. PolyU Press.
Ng, S. I., Ng, C. W. Y., Wang, J., & Lee, T. (2024). Automatic Detection of Speech Sound Disorder in Cantonese-Speaking Pre-School Children. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 32, 4355-4368. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2024.3463503
Ng, S. I., Ng, C. W. Y., & Lee, T. (2023). A Study on Using Duration and Formant Features in Automatic Detection of Speech Sound Disorder in Children. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2023, 4643-4647. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-937
Ng, S. I., Ng, C. W. Y., Wang, J., & Lee, T. (2022). Automatic Detection of Speech Sound Disorder in Child Speech Using Posterior-based Speaker Representations. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2022, 2853-2857. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-935
Ng, S. I., Ng, C. W. Y., Li, J., & Lee, T. (2021). Detection of Consonant Errors in Disordered Speech Based on Consonant-vowel Segment Embedding. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2021, 2931-2935. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1305
Ng, S. I.*, Ng, C. W. Y.*, Wang, J., Lee, T., Lee, K. Y.-S., & Tong, C. F. M. (2020). CUCHILD: A Large-Scale Cantonese Corpus of Child Speech for Phonology and Articulation Assessment. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2020, 424-428. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2148 [*Equal contributions]
Wang, J., Ng, S. I., Tao, D., Ng, W. Y., & Lee, T. (2019). A Study on Acoustic Modeling for Child Speech Based on Multi-Task Learning. In Proceedings of the 2018 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 389-393. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCSLP.2018.8706703

Selected Funded Research Projects

2025 - 2027
P.I. of project titled “Competency of applying innovative and technological tools in assessment and diagnosing motor speech disorders” funded by Faculty Reserve for L&T Projects/ FH Student-related Activities from the Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Funding amount HKD$150,000.
2021 - 2023
P.I. of project titled “Promoting database competency through the delivery of a corpus-driven reading training programme”funded by Departmental Learning & Teaching Grant from the Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Funding amount HKD$99,107.5
2017 - 2020
P.I. of project titled “Speech Analysis for Cantonese Speaking Children” funded by Departmental fund from Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Funding amount HKD$500,000

2026 - 2028
Co.I. of project titled “Advancing the identification of Developmental Language Disorder in Mandarin-Cantonese bilingual children: a reference standard and novel assessment measures” funded by General Research Fund 2024. Ref. no.: 15615525. Funding amount HKD$1,423,201.
2024 - 2027
Co.I. of project titled “Multimodal digital speech analysis for detection of depressive symptomatology in youth” funded by Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Health Bureau 2024. Ref. no.: 21220821. Funding amount HKD$1,388,728.
2023 - 2028
Co.I. of project titled “Applying automatic speech recognition technology in screening children with speech sound disorder” funded by ITF-FBL 2023. Ref. no.: FBL/019/23. Funding amount HK$3,259,203.
2021 - 2023
Co.I. of project titled “Technological competency development for clinical education in speech therapy: Exploration in the intervention of acquired motor speech disorders” funded by Dean’s Reserve for L&T projects from the Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. Funding amount HKD$149,760

Esteem Measures

2023 - Present
External Accreditation Specialist of Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications

2020 - Present
Honorary Professional Member of The Institute of Human Communicative Research, CUHK
2005 - Present
Full member, The Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists
Present
Speech Therapist in Accredited Register, Department of Health, Hong Kong Government

2018
Information Technology First Prize and Innovation Special Award. The Challenge-cup Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
2018
Golden Prize, Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2018 by the HK Electronic Industries Association
2017
Best Oral Presentation, Asia-Pacific Conference on Speech, Language & Hearing