Sonya Lee
· ProfessorUniversity of Southern California · Religion
Active 1990–2024
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About
Dr. Sonya Lee is a Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Religion at the University of Southern California, where she also serves as Department Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Her research specializes in religious art and architecture of China and Central Asia, with a focus on material culture of the ancient Silk Road, art and ecology, Asian art collecting, and heritage conservation. She has published extensively on these topics, including her first book, 'Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture,' which examines the iconography of nirvana images in Buddhist art across Asia and how communities of patrons and makers in medieval China reinterpreted the motif to confront the anxiety of the Buddha’s absence. Her recent book, 'Temples in the Cliffside: Buddhist Art of Sichuan,' explores Buddhist sites with monumental cliff-side carvings in southwest China, analyzing their art, heritage, and ecological significance within the context of climate change and sustainability. This work has been recognized with the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Award in the Nonfiction/Religion category. Dr. Lee is also the Editor-in-Chief for Grove Art Online and is involved in the development of the Grove Encyclopedia of Asian Art. She received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago and has been awarded fellowships and research grants from prestigious institutions such as the National Gallery of Art, Getty Foundation,…
Research topics
- Business
- Psychology
- Computer Science
- Finance
- Marketing
- Financial system
- Medicine
- Speech recognition
- Biology
- Gerontology
Selected publications
Vocal tract shaping of emotional speech
Computer Speech & Language · 2020 · 29 citations
2016-08-29 · 23 citations
articleOnline Affect Tracking with Multimodal Kalman Filters
2016-10-12 · 17 citations
articleArousal and valence have been widely used to represent emotions dimensionally and measure them continuously in time. In this paper, we introduce a computational framework for tracking these affective dimensions from multimodal data as an entry to the Multimodal Affect Recognition Sub-Challenge of the 2016 Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC2016). We propose a linear dynamical system approach with a late fusion method that accounts for the dynamics of the affective state evolution (…
Articulatory, acoustic, and prosodic accommodation in a cooperative maze navigation task
PLoS ONE · 2018-08-07 · 13 citations
articleOpen accessThis study uses a maze navigation task in conjunction with a quasi-scripted, prosodically controlled speech task to examine acoustic and articulatory accommodation in pairs of interacting speakers. The experiment uses a dual electromagnetic articulography set-up to collect synchronized acoustic and articulatory kinematic data from two facing speakers simultaneously. We measure the members of a dyad individually before they interact, while they are interacting in a cooperative task, and again ind…
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2018-11-01 · 5 citations
articleOpen accessThis paper reports on the concurrent use of electroglottography (EGG) and electromagnetic articulography (EMA) in the acquisition of EMA trajectory data for running speech. Static and dynamic intersensor distances, standard deviations, and coefficients of variation associated with inter-sample distances were compared in two conditions: with and without EGG present. Results indicate that measurement discrepancies between the two conditions are within the EMA system's measurement uncertainty. Ther…
Recent grants
RI: Small: Emotional Speech Production: Analysis, Modeling and Synthesis
NSF · $450k · 2011–2016
Frequent coauthors
- 130 shared
Shrikanth Narayanan
- 41 shared
Dani Byrd
- 37 shared
Jangwon Kim
- 34 shared
Abe Kazemzadeh
- 30 shared
Chi-Chun Lee
- 28 shared
Carlos Busso
The University of Texas at Dallas
- 21 shared
Shrikanth Narayanan
University of Southern California
- 18 shared
Louis Goldstein
Awards & honors
- 2023 Independent Publisher Book Award in the Nonfiction/Reli…
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