Scholar
Li Deng
Google Scholar ID: GQWTo4MAAAAJ
Chief AI Officer, Citadel (former)
Citations & Impact
Citations
51,963
H-index
68
i10-index
190
Publications
20
Co-authors
125
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2019 IEEE SPS Industry Leader Award for leadership in large-scale deep learning, NLP, and financial engineering
- 2015 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to ASR and deep learning
- 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
- Dozens of best paper and patent awards in AI, ML, speech processing, and language technology
- Elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors
- Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2008–2014); received IEEE SPS Meritorious Service Award
- Author/co-author of six technical books on deep learning, speech processing, pattern recognition, ML, and NLP (Springer, June 2018)
Research Experience
- Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Partner at Citadel since May 2017
- Chief Scientist of AI, Founder of the Deep Learning Technology Center, and Partner Research Manager at Microsoft and Microsoft Research, Redmond (2000–2017)
- Assistant Professor (1989–1992), tenured Associate Professor (1992–1996), and Full Professor (1996–1999) at the University of Waterloo, Canada
- Faculty/research positions at MIT (1992–1993), ATR (Kyoto, Japan, 1997–1998), and HKUST (1995)
- Affiliate Full Professor at University of Washington, Seattle (since 2000)
Background
- Recognized as a world-leading expert in AI, machine learning, quantitative finance, and speech and language technology
- Currently Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Vatic Investments
- Previously Chief AI Officer and Head of Machine Learning at Citadel Hedge Fund
- Former Chief Scientist of AI and Founder of the Deep Learning Technology Center at Microsoft Corporation
- Fellow of the Academy of Engineering of Canada, IEEE, and the Acoustical Society of America
