An IEEE Fellow, for contributions to deep-learning-based speech technology innovation and commercialization; also an AAIA Fellow; has been a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee from 2017 to 2023; served as the associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing from 2015 to 2020; awarded as the Industrial Distinguished Leader at Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) in 2021 and APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award in 2023; named as Distinguished Industry Speakers for IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Research Experience
Joined Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA in 2008 and now serves as Partner Applied Science Manager, leading a dynamic team dedicated to designing and enhancing speech modeling algorithms and technologies.
Education
Received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA in 2008.
Background
Research interests include end-to-end modeling for speech recognition and speech translation, deep learning, acoustic modeling, and noise robustness.