Distinguished Seminar Series on DSAI - "A Computational Perspective to Language and lntelligence" by Prof. Haizhou LI

Prof. Haizhou Li is a Presidential Chair Professor and Executive Dean at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. Prof. Li has taught in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore(2006-2016), National University of Singapore (2016-2021).   Prof. Li' s research interests include automatic speech recognition and natural language processing. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LAN-GUAGE PROCESSING (2015-2018), the President of the international Speech Communication Association (2015-2017), the President of Asia Pacific Signal and information Processing Association (2015-2016), the President of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (2017-2018), the Vice President of lEEE Signal Processing Society (2024-2026). He was the General Chair of ACL 2012, INTERSPEECH 2014, and IEEE ICASSP 2022.   Prof. Li was the recipient of National lnfocomm Awards 2002, institution of Engineers Singapore (lES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2013 and 2015, President’s Technology Award 2013, and MTl Innovation Activist Gold Award 2015 in Singapore. He was named one of the two Nokia Visiting Professors in 2009 by Nokia Foundation, lEEE Fellow in 2014 for leadership in multilingual, speaker and language recognition, ISCA Fellow in 2018 for contributions to multilingual speech information processing, Bremen Excellence Chair Professor in 2019, and Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2022.