Lei Xu, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chief Scientist of AI Research Institute, Chief Scientist of SJTU-Sensetime Research Institute; Chief Scientist of Brain Sci & Tech Research Centre, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU); Director of Neural Computation Research Centre in Brain and Intelligence Science-Technology Institute, Zhang Jiang National Lab.
Elected to Fellow of IEEE in 2001; Fellow of intl. Association for Pattern Recognition in 2002 and of European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) in 2003. Received several national and international academic awards, e.g., including 1993 National Nature Science Award, 1995 Leadership Award from International Neural Networks Society (INNS) and 2006 APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award. Conducted research in several areas of Artificial Intelligence over 40 years. Published about 400 papers (including 140+ Journal papers，also published 4 papers on NIPS during 1992-95 and the one in 1992 with Peking university marks the first time a Chinese academic institution entered this topmost AI conference). His influential contributions on Randomized Hough Transform (RHT), RPCL learning, LMSER learning, classifier combination and mixture of experts, and BYY harmony learned are well known and widely followed. Served as EIC and associate editors of several academic journals.
Professor Haizhou Li (Fellow of Singapore Academy of Engineering, Fellow of lEEE, Fellow of lSCA) is the Dean and X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and a courtesy professor at SDS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore, Singapore and a Bremen Excellence Chair Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany. Prior to joining CUHK -Shenzhen, Professor Li has taught at Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore (2006-2016) in Singapore, University of Eastern Finland (2009) in Finland, and University of New South Wales (2011-2016) in Australia. He was the Principal Scientist and Research Director at the Institute for Infocomm Research (2003-2016), the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore.
Professor Li served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE-ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing (2015-2018), Associate Editor of Computer Speech and Language (2012-2021), Springer International Journal of Social Robotics (2008-2021), and a Member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (2013-2015), Awards Board (2021-2023), Publications Board (2015-2018), and a Vice President (2024-2026) of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was the President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, 2015-2017), the President of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA, 2015-2016), the President of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP, 2017-2018). He was the General Chair of major scientific conferences including ACL 2012, INTERSPEECH 2014, and ICASSP 2022.
Professor Li was known for his technical contributions to the theory and practice of speaker and language recognition, and to a number of award-winning speech products, such as Apple's Chinese Dictation Kits for Macintosh (1996) and Lernout & Hauspie's Speech-Pen-Keyboard Text Entry Solution for Asian languages (1999). He was the architect of a series of major technology deployments that include TELEFIQS voice-automated call centre service in Singapore Changi International Airport (2001), voiceprint engine for Lenovo A586 Smartphone (2012), and Baidu Music Search (2013).