2026 Julien Epps: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	49	5770	5604	175	174	272	14369

Overview

Julien Epps is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research spans several interconnected disciplines within computer science and psychology, focusing significantly on speech and audio processing technologies and related cognitive aspects.

The scientist's work covers main fields including:

Computer Science
Psychology

Within these fields, Epps explores multiple subfields such as:

Artificial Intelligence
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Signal Processing
Cognitive Neuroscience
Human-Computer Interaction

The primary research topics of Epps include:

Speech and Audio Processing
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
Emotion and Mood Recognition
Voice and Speech Disorders
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Music and Audio Processing

Julien Epps has a record of publications in several journals and conference venues. The frequent publication venues are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Speech Communication
2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Some recent papers by Epps include:

Automatic Detection of COVID-19 Based on Short-Duration Acoustic Smartphone Speech Analysis, 2021, Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research
Ordinal Logistic Regression With Partial Proportional Odds for Depression Prediction, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Mamba in Speech: Towards an Alternative to Self-Attention, 2025, IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
Read speech voice quality and disfluency in individuals with recent suicidal ideation or suicide attempt, 2021, Speech Communication
Development of an Undergraduate Quantum Engineering Degree, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering

Frequent collaborators of Julien Epps include:

Beena Ahmed
Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Vidhyasaharan Sethu
Xiangyu Zhang
Mostafa Shahin

Best Publications

Information Theoretic Measures for Clusterings Comparison: Variants, Properties, Normalization and Correction for Chance

Nguyen Xuan Vinh;Julien Epps;James Bailey

2773
Citations
The Geneva Minimalistic Acoustic Parameter Set (GeMAPS) for Voice Research and Affective Computing

Florian Eyben;Klaus R. Scherer;Bjorn W. Schuller;Johan Sundberg

1708
Citations
Information theoretic measures for clusterings comparison: is a correction for chance necessary?

Nguyen Xuan Vinh;Julien Epps;James Bailey

1059
Citations
A review of depression and suicide risk assessment using speech analysis

Nicholas Cummins;Stefan Scherer;Jarek Krajewski;Sebastian Schnieder

974
Citations
Signal Processing in Sequence Analysis: Advances in Eukaryotic Gene Prediction

M. Akhtar;J. Epps;E. Ambikairajah

221
Citations
Using Task-Induced Pupil Diameter and Blink Rate to Infer Cognitive Load

Siyuan Chen;Julien Epps

207
Citations
An Investigation of Depressed Speech Detection: Features and Normalization.

Nicholas Cummins;Julien Epps;Michael Breakspear;Roland Goecke

205
Citations
Multimodal assistive technologies for depression diagnosis and monitoring

Jyoti Joshi;Roland Goecke;Roland Goecke;Sharifa Alghowinem;Abhinav Dhall

197
Citations
Multimodal Depression Detection: Fusion Analysis of Paralinguistic, Head Pose and Eye Gaze Behaviors

Sharifa Alghowinem;Roland Goecke;Michael Wagner;Julien Epps

191
Citations
Eye activity as a measure of human mental effort in HCI

Siyuan Chen;Julien Epps;Natalie Ruiz;Fang Chen

191
Citations
The INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Cognitive & Physical Load

Björn W. Schuller;Stefan Steidl;Anton Batliner;Julien Epps

177
Citations
Multimodal behavior and interaction as indicators of cognitive load

Fang Chen;Natalie Ruiz;Eric Choi;Julien Epps

169
Citations
A study of hand shape use in tabletop gesture interaction

Julien Epps;Serge Lichman;Mike Wu

167
Citations
Automatic classification of eye activity for cognitive load measurement with emotion interference

Siyuan Chen;Julien Epps

155
Citations
Diagnosis of depression by behavioural signals: a multimodal approach

Nicholas Cummins;Jyoti Joshi;Abhinav Dhall;Vidhyasaharan Sethu

147
Citations
Estimating cognitive workload using wavelet entropy-based features during an arithmetic task

Pega Zarjam;Julien Epps;Fang Chen;Nigel H. Lovell

145
Citations
Detecting depression: A comparison between spontaneous and read speech

Sharifa Alghowinem;Roland Goecke;Michael Wagner;Julien Epps

145
Citations
Transfer learning for improving speech emotion classification accuracy

Siddique Latif;Rajib Rana;Shahzad Younis;Junaid Qadir

141
Citations
A novel instrument to measure acoustic resonances of the vocal tract during phonation

J Epps;J R Smith;J Wolfe

131
Citations
On DNA Numerical Representations for Period-3 Based Exon Prediction

M. Akhtar;J. Epps;E. Ambikairajah

127
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eliathamby Ambikairajah University of New South Wales

Roland Goecke University of New South Wales

Nicholas Cummins King's College London

Michael Wagner University of Canberra

Michael Breakspear University of Newcastle Australia

Branko G. Celler University of New South Wales

Björn Schuller Imperial College London

Junaid Qadir Information Technology University

Mark Onslow University of Technology Sydney

Gordon Parker University of New South Wales

External Links

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