| Assoc Prof (Adj) Li Haizhou
Adjunct Associate Professor
Division of Visual & Interactive Computing
School of Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Email: HZLI@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)-
Office: SCE |
| Education |
- PhD South China University of Technology 1990
- MS South China University of Technology 1987
- BS South China University of Technology 1984
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| Biography |
| A/Prof Haizhou Li is currently with the School of Computer Engineering since 2006. He received his Ph.D degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 1990. He taught in the University of Hong Kong and South China University of Technology during 1988-1994. From 1994 to 1995, he was a Visiting Professor at Nancy Research Centre of Computer Science (CRIN), France. In 1995, he became the Manager of the ASR group at the Apple-ISS Research Centre in Singapore where he led the research of Apple's Chinese Dictation Kit for Macintosh. In 1999, he was appointed as the Research Director of Lernout & Hauspie Asia Pacific, where he oversaw the creation of the world's first multimodal speech, pen and keyboard input solution for Chinese computing. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Vice President of InfoTalk Corp. Ltd in Singapore. Since 2003, he has been with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore, where he is now the Department Head of Human Language Technology, and the Programme Manager of Social Robotics. He is also a Visiting Professor (Honorary) of the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at University of New South Wales, Australia; a Nokia Visiting Professor 2009, Nokia Foundation, Finland. He published more than 150 papers in international journals and conferences and held 5 patents. He is a recipient of the National Infocomm Award 2001 and the TEC Innovator's Award 2004 in Singapore. He is now an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, and the Springer International Journal of Social Robotics, a Vice President of the COLIPS, a Senior Member of IEEE, an Executive Committee Member of Asian Federation of NLP, and a Member of ACL. |
| Research Interests |
| A/Prof Li's current research interests include automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition, spoken language recognition, pattern recognition, social robotics, and natural language processing. |
| Research Grant |
- Defence Science Organisation National Laboratories (2010-)
- Defence Science and Technology Agency (2008-)
- MINDEF-NTU Joint Applied R&D Co-operation Programme (JPP) (2011-)
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| Current Projects |
- Advanced Research in Automatic Speech Recognition
- Conversational Code-Switch Resource Development, Detection Classifier and Strategy
- Project Magor (Project Agreement No. 9011101765)
- Speech Technology Development Programme (Advanced Research in Automatic Speech Recognition)
| Selected Publications | - Donglai Zhu, Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, and Chin-Hui Lee. (2008). Optimizing the Performance of Spoken Language Recognition with Discriminative Training. IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 16(8), 1642-1653.
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