Bruce X. Wang

Bruce X. Wang, PhD

Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.


Research Interest:

My main research interests lie in forensic speech science, sociophonetics, acoustic phonetics, Bayesian statistics as well as evaluation of voice evidence involving English, Cantonese and Mandarin. I did my PhD in forensic speech science where I investigated the issue of sampling variability in forensic voice comparison. My PhD research contributes to the on-going discussion of validity and reliability in the forensic evidence comparison showing that forensic experts should focus on measuring and minimising uncertainty, not maximising discriminability.