Gong Jian,PhD, Master student supervisor, Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages,Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He obtained an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK, and a PhDin Applied Linguistics from the University of the Basque Country, Spain. His research interests include speech perception, second language acquisition,psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, speech signal processing, and computational modelling of speech perception. He is now a council member of the Chinese Second Language Processing Association,a member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), and the International Phonetic Association (IPA). He has published several papers in top journals and conferences including Speech Communication, System, Interspeech and ICPhS.He has been the Principle Investigator for several projects supported by the Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education of China,and the Jiangsu Social Science Fund.