May 26, 2017

Microsoft Research Asia Academic Day 2017

Location: Yilan, Taiwan

Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon is corporate vice president of Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific R&D Group, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia. He drives Microsoft’s strategy for research and development activities in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as collaborations with academia.

Dr. Hon has been with Microsoft since 1995. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2004 as deputy managing director, stepping into the role of managing director in 2007. He founded and managed Microsoft Search Technology Center from 2005 to 2007 and led development of Microsoft’s search products (Bing) in Asia-Pacific. In 2014, Dr. Hon was appointed as chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group.

Prior to joining Microsoft Research Asia, Dr. Hon was the founding member and architect of the Natural Interactive Services Division at Microsoft Corporation. Besides overseeing architectural and technical aspects of the award-winning Microsoft Speech Server product, Natural User Interface Platform and Microsoft Assistance Platform, he was also responsible for managing and delivering statistical learning technologies and advanced search. Dr. Hon joined Microsoft Research as a senior researcher in 1995 and has been a key contributor to Microsoft’s SAPI and speech engine technologies. He previously worked at Apple, where he led research and development for Apple’s Chinese Dictation Kit.

An IEEE Fellow and a distinguished scientist of Microsoft, Dr. Hon is an internationally recognized expert in speech technology. Dr. Hon has published more than 100 technical papers in international journals and at conferences. He co-authored a book, Spoken Language Processing, which is a graduate-level textbook and reference book in the area of speech technology used in universities around the world. Dr. Hon holds three dozen patents in several technical areas.

Dr. Hon received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.
Dr. Mau-Chung Frank Chang is presently the President of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. Previously, he was the Chairman and Wintek Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA (1997-2015).

Before joining UCLA, he was the Assistant Director and Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory of Rockwell International Science Center (1983-1997), Thousand Oaks, California. In this tenure, he developed and transferred the AlGaAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and BiFET (Planar HBT/MESFET) integrated circuit technologies from the research laboratory to the production line (later became Conexant Systems and Skyworks). The HBT/BiFET productions have grown into multi-billion dollar businesses and have dominated the cell phone power amplifier and front-end module markets for the past twenty years (currently exceeding 10 billion units/year and exceeding 50 billion units in the last decade).

Throughout his career, Dr. Chang’s research has primarily focused on the research & development of high-speed semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for RF and mixed-signal communication radar and imaging system applications. He invented multiband, reconfigurable RF-Interconnects for Chip-Multi-Processor (CMP) inter-core communications and inter-chip CPU-to-Memory communications. He was the 1st to demonstrate a CMOS active imager at sub-mm-Wave (180GHz) based on a Time-Encoded Digital Regenerative Receiver. He also pioneered the development of self-healing 57-64GHz radio-on-a-chip (DARPA’s HEALICs program) with embedded sensors, actuators and self-diagnosis/curing capabilities; and ultra low phase noise VCO (F.O.M. < -200dBc/Hz) with the invented Digitally Controlled Artificial Dielectric (DiCAD) embedded in CMOS technologies to vary its transmission-line permittivity in real-time (up to 20X) for realizing reconfigurable multiband/mode radios in (sub-)mm-Wave frequencies. He realized the first CMOS PLL for Terahertz operation and devised the first tri-color CMOS active imager at 180-500GHz based on a Time-Encoded Digital Regenerative Receiver and the first 3-dimensional SAR imaging radar with sub-centimeter resolution at 144GHz.

Dr. Chang is the Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China, and the Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors. He is also a Fellow of IEEE. He has received numerous awards including Rockwell’s Leonardo Da Vinci Award (Engineer of the Year, 1992), IEEE David Sarnoff Award (2006), Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Award (2008), CESASC Life-Time Achievement Award (2009) and John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers’ Council (2014).

Dr. Chang earned his B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University (1972); M.S. in Materials Science from National Tsing Hua University (1974); Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (1979).
Dr. Lin is a Principal Research Manager of the Knowledge Computing group at Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests are knowledge computing, natural language processing, semantic search, text generation, question answering, and automatic summarization.

He published over 100 papers in international conferences such as ACL, SIGIR, KDD, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI, WSDM, CIKM, COLING, and EMNLP and has an H-Index of 44. He has been granted 31 US Patents. He was the program co-chair of ACL 2012, program co-chair of AAAI 2011 AI & the Web Special Track, and program co-chair of NLPCC 2016. He created the ROUGE automatic summarization evaluation package. It has become the de facto standard in summarization evaluation.

His team at Microsoft achieved the best accuracy in the Knowledge Base Population Evaluation 2013, scored the best F1 in the Knowledge Base Acceleration Evaluation 2013 and 2014, and shipped the Entity Linking Intelligence Service (ELIS) in Microsoft //BUILD 2016.
Dr. Eric Chang joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in July, 1999 to work in the area of speech technologies. Eric is currently the Senior Director of Technology Strategy at MSR Asia, where his responsibilities include industry collaboration, IP portfolio management, and driving new research themes such as eHealth. Prior to joining Microsoft, Eric had worked at Nuance Communications, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Toshiba ULSI Laboratory, and General Electric Corporate Research and Development. Eric graduated from MIT with Ph.D., Master and Bachelor degrees, all in the field of electrical engineering and computer science. Eric’s work has been reported by Wall Street Journal, Technology Review, and other publications.
Hao-Chuan Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Information Systems and Applications at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (NTHU), since February 2012. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science from Cornell University in 2011. Dr. Wang’s main research interest lies in the collaborative and social aspects of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). His work aims to integrate computing research and behavioral and social sciences for problem solving and value creation. Some of his recent projects include designing and evaluating human computation systems for supporting cross-lingual communication, using motion sensing to study the roles of gesture in conversation, and supporting interpersonal knowledge transfer with Internet of Things. Dr. Wang is an active participant of international and regional HCI communities, including ACM SIGCHI, CSCW and Chinese CHI. He currently serves as a member in the Steering Committees of CSCW and Chinese CHI, and is now a Subcommittee Chair for ACM CHI 2017 and 2018.
Helen Meng is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She is the Founding Director of the CUHK MoE-Microsoft Key Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies, Tsinghua-CUHK Joint Research Center for Media Sciences, Technologies and Systems, and the Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Center. Previously she has served as Associate Dean (Research) of Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, and in the IEEE Board of Governors. Her other professional services include memberships in the HKSAR Government’s (HKSARG) Steering Committee on eHealth Record Sharing, Research Grants Council (RGC), Convenor of the Engineering Panel in RGC’s Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Self-financing Degree Sector, Hong Kong/Guangdong ICT Expert Committee and Coordinator of the Working Group on Big Data Research and Applications, and Chairlady of the Working Party of the Manpower Survey of the Information Technology Sector for both 2014-2015 and 2016-2017. Helen received all her degrees from MIT. She was elected APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer 2012-2013 and ISCA Distinguished Lecturer 2015-2016. She received the Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award 2009, Hong Kong Computer Society’s inaugural Outstanding ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Woman Professional Award 2015, Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award in 2016 and ICME 2016 Best Paper Award. Helen is a Fellow of HKCS, HKIE, ISCA and IEEE.
Prof. Kwok is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prof. Kwok served/is serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and the Neurocomputing journal, and as Program Chair for a number of international conferences. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Professor Lien did Ph.D. thesis research in facial expression recognition at RI, CMU, USA from 1993 to 1998. His team developed a real-time stereo system for face recognition at a distance for US$5M DARPA surveillance grant at L1-Identity from 1998 to 2002. He joined NCKU, Taiwan in 2002. His student team worked on AOI with TFT-LCD and solar cell local companies since 2002. His team started to work with Texas Instruments for embedded computer vision applied to surveillance and human-computer interactions in 2009. Since 2014, his team worked with machine & tool companies to develop deep learning technologies in the fields of DLP 3D inspection and reconstruction, robotic grasping, and tool wear monitoring and life prediction for industry 4.0.
Jun Rekimoto received his B.A.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Information Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1984, 1986, and 1996, respectively. Since 1994 he has worked for Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL). In 1999 he formed and directed the Interaction Laboratory within Sony CSL. Since 2007 he has been a professor in the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at The University of Tokyo. Since 2011 he also has been Deputy Director of Sony CSL

Rekimoto’s research interests include human-computer interaction, computer augmented environments and computer augmented human (human-computer integration). He invented various innovative interactive systems and sensing technologies, including NaviCam (a hand-held AR system), Pick-and-Drop (a direct-manipulation technique for inter-appliance computing), CyberCode (the world’s first marker-based AR system), Augmented Surfaces, HoloWall, and SmartSkin (two earliest representations of multi-touch systems). He has published more than a hundreds articles in the area of human-computer interactions, including ACM SIGCHI, and UIST. He received the Multi-Media Grand Prix Technology Award from the Multi-Media Contents Association Japan in 1998, iF Interaction Design Award in 2000, the Japan Inter-Design Award in 2003, iF Communication Design Award in 2005, Good Design Best 100 Award in 2012, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology Fundamental Research Award in 2012, and ACM UIST Lasting Impact Award , Zoom Japon Les 50 qui font le Japon de demain in 2013. In 2007, He also elected to ACM SIGCHI Academy.
Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi is a Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research. He received his Ph.D degree in Information Engineering from the Univ. of Tokyo in 1978. After working at MIT-AI Lab as a posdoc fellow for three years, ETL (currently AIST) as a research member for five years, CMU-Robotics Institute as a faculty member for ten years, the Univ. of Tokyo as a faculty member for nineteen years, he joined Microsoft Research in 2015. His research interest spans computer vision, robotics, and computer graphics. He has received several awards, including IEEE-PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award, the Okawa Prize and 紫綬褒章 (the Medal of Honor with Purple ribbon) from the Emperor of Japan. He is a fellow of IEEE, IEICE, IPSJ, and RSJ.
Koichiro Yoshino received his B.A. degree in 2009 from Keio University, M.S. degree in informatics in 2011, and Ph.D. degree in informatics in 2014 from Kyoto University, respectively. From 2014 to 2015, he was a research fellow (PD) of Japan Society for Promotion of Science. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

His research interests include spoken language processing, especially spoken dialogue system, syntactic and semantic parsing, and language modeling. Dr. Koichiro Yoshino received the JSAI SIG-research award in 2013. He is an organizer of DSTC 5 and 6. He is a member of IEEE, ACL, IPSJ, and ANLP.
Mark Liao received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1990. In July 1991, he joined the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and currently, is a Distinguished Research Fellow. He has worked in the fields of multimedia signal processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and multimedia protection for more than 25 years. During 2009-2011, he was the Division Chair of the computer science and information engineering division II, National Science Council of Taiwan. He is jointly appointed as a Chair Professor of National Chiao-Tung University and a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of National Cheng Kung University. During 2009-2012, he was jointly appointed as the Multimedia Information Chair Professor of National Chung Hsing University. Since August 2010, he has been appointed as an Adjunct Chair Professor of Chung Yuan Christian University. From August 2014 to July 2016, he was appointed as an Honorary Chair Professor of National Sun Yat-sen University. He received the Young Investigators’ Award from Academia Sinica in 1998; the Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2003, 2010 and 2013; the National Invention Award of Taiwan in 2004; the Academia Sinica Investigator Award in 2010; and the TECO Award from the TECO Foundation in 2016. His professional activities include: Co-Chair, 2004 International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME); Technical Co-chair, 2007 ICME; General Co-Chair, President, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society of Taiwan (2006-08); Editorial Board Member, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2010-13); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2009-13), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2009-12) and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (1998-2001). He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 2013 for contributions to image and video forensics and security.
He received a Ph.D. Degree from the University of Electro-Communications in 2000. He was with the NTT Human Interface Laboratories from 1990 to 1998, and the NTT DoCoMo Research Laboratories from 1998 to 2013. He is currently a Lead Researcher at the Microsoft Research (Beijing, China). His research interests include portable and wearable interface devices, and also interaction mechanisms that utilize characteristics or information of our living-body.
Masayuki Inaba is a professor of Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. He received Dr. of Engineering of Information Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1986. He was appointed as a lecturer in 1986, an associate professor in 1989, and a professor in 2000 at The University of Tokyo. His research interests include key technologies of robotic system, humanoid and software architecture for advanced robots. His research projects have included hand-eye coordination in rope handling, vision-based robotic server system, remote-brained robot approach, whole-body behaviors in humanoids, robot sensor suit with electrically conductive fabric, musculoskeltal humanoid development, humanoid specialization for home assistance, and developmental integration systems with open source robot platforms. He received several awards including outstanding Paper Awards in 1987, 1998, 1999 and 2015 from the Robotics Society of Japan, JIRA Awards in 1994, ROBOMECH Awards in 1994 and 1996 from the division of Robotics and Mechatronics of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Best Paper Awards of International Conference on Humanoids in 2000 and 2006, ICRA Conference Best Paper Award in 2014 with JSK Robotics Lab members.
Pai-Chi Li received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1990 and 1994, respectively, both in electrical engineering: systems. He joined Acuson Corporation, Mountain View, CA, as a member of the Technical Staff in June 1994. His work in Acuson was primarily in the areas of medical ultrasonic imaging system design for both cardiology and general imaging applications. In August 1997, he went back to the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University, where he is currently Associate Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Distinguished Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics. He is also the TBF Chair in Biotechnology and Getac Chair Professor. He served as Founding Director of Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics in 2006-2009 and National Taiwan University Yong-Lin Biomedical Engineering Center in 2009-2011. His current research interests include biomedical ultrasound and medical devices. Dr. Li is IEEE Fellow, IAMBE Fellow, AIUM Fellow and SPIE Fellow. He was also Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, and has been Associate Editor of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, and on the Editorial Board of Ultrasonic Imaging and Photoacoustics. He has won numerous awards including Distinguished Research Award, the Dr. Wu Dayou Research Award and Distinguished Industrial Collaboration Award.
Pascual Martínez-Gómez is a research scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Before moving to AIST, he worked as Assistant Professor at Ochanomizu University and as a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (2014-2016) where he researched on semantic parsing and recognizing textual entailment. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of Tokyo in 2014 for his research on eye-tracking and readability diagnosis. Pascual’s current main interests are in natural language processing, multi-modal user interfaces and machine learning.

Prof. Luo received both Dipl.Ing, and Dr. Ing. degree from Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany. He is currently a Chief Technology Officer of Fair Friend Group Company., an Irving T. Ho Chair and Life Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University. He is a member of EU Echord Industrial Advisory Board. He also served two terms as President of National Chung Cheng Univ. (國立中正大学) and Founding President of Robotics Society of Taiwan. He was a tenured Full Professor in the Dept.of ECE for 15 years at North Carolina State Uni., in USA and Toshiba Chair Professor in the U. of Tokyo, Japan.

His professional career experiences include robotic control systems, multi-sensor fusion and integration, computer vision, 3D printing technologies. He has authored more than 450 papers on these topics, which have been published in refereed international journals and refereed international conference proceedings. He also holds more than 25 international patents.

Dr. Luo received IEEE Eugean Mittlemann Outstanding Research Achievement Award, IEEE IROS Harashima Innovative Technologies Award; ALCOA Company Foundation Outstanding Engineering Research Award, USA; Dr. Luo currently served as EIC of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics （Impact factor 4.70）and served 5 years as EIC of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (Impact Factor 3.85) as well. Dr. Luo served as President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and as Science and Technology Adviser to the Prime Minister office in Taiwan. Dr. Luo is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET.
Dr. Song is a lead researcher in Microsoft Research Asia, located in Beijing, China. She received M.S. from Tsinghua University in 2003 and Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2010. She worked for Microsoft since 2003. Her research interests are Web information retrieval, information extraction, data mining, social and mobile computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) based text and conversation generation. She is working on personalized text conversation and AI based writing. Dr. Song has published more than 40 papers and served top conferences such as SIGIR, SIGKDD, CIKM, WWW, WSDM as a Senior PC or PC. She also proposed and organized NTCIR Intent tasks and serves EVIA2013 and 2014 as chairs.
Shou-de Lin is currently a full professor in the CSIE department of National Taiwan University. He holds a BS degree in EE department from National Taiwan University, an MS-EE degree from the University of Michigan, an MS degree in Computational Linguistics and PhD in Computer Science both from the University of Southern California. He leads the Machine Discovery and Social Network Mining Lab in NTU. Before joining NTU, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Los Alamos National Lab. Prof. Lin’s research includes the areas of machine learning and data mining, social network analysis, and natural language processing. His international recognition includes the best paper award in IEEE Web Intelligent conference 2003, Google Research Award in 2007, Microsoft research award in 2008, 2015, 2016 merit paper award in TAAI 2010, 2014, 2016, best paper award in ASONAM 2011, US Aerospace AFOSR/AOARD research award winner for 5 years. He is the all-time winners in ACM KDD Cup, leading or co-leading the NTU team to win 5 championships. He also leads a team to win WSDM Cup 2016. He has served as the senior PC for SIGKDD and area chair for ACL. He is currently the associate editor for International Journal on Social Network Mining, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, and International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. He is also a freelance writer for Scientific American.
Takeshi Oishi is an Associate Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Keio University in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from the University of Tokyo in 2005. His research interests are in 3D modeling from reality, digital archiving of cultural heritage assets and mixed/augmented reality. He served as program committee members of a series of computer vision conferences such as ICCV, CVPR, ACCV, 3DIM/3DPVT (merged into 3DV), ISMAR etc. He has organized the e-Heritage Workshops.
Tao Mei is a Senior Researcher with Microsoft Research Asia. His current research interests include multimedia analysis and computer vision. He has authored or co-authored over 150 papers with 10 best paper awards. He holds 18 granted U.S. patents and has shipped a dozen inventions and technologies to Microsoft products and services. He is an Editorial Board Member of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, and Pattern Recognition. He is the Program Co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2018, CBMI 2017, IEEE ICME 2015, and IEEE MMSP 2015. Tao was elected as a Fellow of IAPR and a Distinguished Scientist of ACM for his contributions to large-scale video analysis and applications.
Dr. Tim Pan is outreach senior director of Microsoft Research Asia, responsible for the lab’s academic collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tim Pan leads a regional team with members based in China, Japan, and Korea engaging universities, research institutes, and certain relevant government agencies. He establishes strategies and directions, identifies business opportunities, and designs various programs and projects that strengthen partnership between Microsoft Research and academia.

Tim Pan earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He has 20 years of experience in the computer industry and has co-founded two technology companies. Tim has a great passion for talent fostering. He served as a board member of St. John’s University (Taiwan) for 10 years, offered college-level courses, and wrote a textbook about information security. Between 2005 and 2007, Tim worked for Microsoft Research Asia as a university relations manager for Taiwan and Hong Kong. He rejoined Microsoft Research Asia in 2012.
He received the B.S. degree, the M.S. degree, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 1999, 2001, and 2004, respectively.

He is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Fellow for Research Abroad and a visiting scientist at Cornell University from Feb. 2011 to Feb. 2013.

His current research interests include multimedia big data analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning, and so on. His publication includes three book chapters, more than 60 journal papers and more than 170 international conference papers. He has received around 60 awards.
Prof. Winston Hsu is an active researcher dedicated to large-scale image/video retrieval/mining, visual recognition, and machine intelligence. He is keen to realizing advanced researches towards business deliverables via academia-industry collaborations and co-founding startups. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, also a Visiting Scientist at Microsoft Research (2014) and IBM TJ Watson Research (2016) for visual cognition, and co-leads Communication and Multimedia Lab (CMLab). He is the Director and PI for NVIDIA AI Lab (NTU), the 1st in Asia. He received Ph.D. (2007) from Columbia University, New York. Before that, he was a founding engineer in CyberLink Corp. He serves as the Associate Editors for IEEE Multimedia Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He also lectured several highly rated and well attended technical tutorials in ACM Multimedia 2008/2009, SIGIR 2008, and IEEE ICASSP 2009/2011.
Xunying Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his PhD and MPhil degrees both from University of Cambridge, after his undergraduate study at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was a Senior Research Associate at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory of the Cambridge University Engineering Department, prior to joining CUHK. He is a co-author of the widely used HTK speech recognition toolkit and has continued to contribute to its current development in deep neural network based acoustic and language modelling. His current research interests include speech recognition, machine learning, statistical language modelling, speech synthesis, speech and language processing.
Yinqiang obtained a Doctor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2013, under the supervision of Prof. Masatoshi Okutomi. Before that, I got a Master degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009 (Supervised by Prof. Yuncai Liu) and a Bachelor degree from Tianjin University in 2006. He has been working on 3D geometric computer vision and spectral imaging in the past six years, including the incremental structure-and-motion pipeline, with applications to large-scale 3D reconstruction from Internet image collections, the polynomial system solving techniques for a serious of fundamental geometric estimation problems, and spectral analysis relating to illumination/reflectance/fluorescence.
Yi-Bing Lin received his Bachelor’s degree from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1983, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, USA, in 1990. From 1990 to 1995 he was a Research Scientist with Bellcore (Telcordia). He then joined the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan, where he remains. In 2010, Lin became a lifetime Chair Professor of NCTU, and in 2011, the Vice President of NCTU. During 2014 – 2016, Lin was Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Since 2016, Lin has been appointed as Vice Chancellor, University System of Taiwan (for NCTU, NTHU, NCU, and NYM).

Lin is an Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, and a member of board of directors, Chunghwa Telecom. He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology. He is General or Program Chair for prestigious conferences including ACM MobiCom 2002. He is Guest Editor for several journals including IEEE Transactions on Computers. Lin is the author of the books Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture (Wiley, 2001), Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (John Wiley,2005), and Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (Wiley, 2008). Lin received numerous research awards including 2005 NSC Distinguished Researcher, 2006 Academic Award of Ministry of Education and 2008 Award for Outstanding contributions in Science and Technology, Executive Yuen, 2011 National Chair Award, and TWAS Prize in Engineering Sciences, 2011 (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World). He is in the advisory boards or the review boards of various government organizations including Ministry of Economic Affairs,Ministry of Education, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and National Science Council. Lin is President of IEEE Taipei Section. He is AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and IET Fellow.
Yoshihiro Kawahara is an Associate Professor in the department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo.

His research interests are in the areas of Computer Networks and Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing. He is currently interested in developing energetically autonomous information communication devices. He’s trying to eliminate the power codes by the Energy Harvesting and the Wireless Power transmission. He’s not only interested in academic research activities but also enjoyed designing new business and its field trial while joining IT startup companies.

He received his Ph.D. in Information Communication Engineering in 2005, M.E. in 2002, and B.E. in 2000. He joined the faculty in 2005. He is a member of IEICE, IPSJ, and IEEE. He’s a committee member of IEEE MTT TC-24 (RFID Technologies.) He was a visiting assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and MIT Media Lab.He is a technical advisor of AgIC, Inc and SenSprout, Inc.
Yuki Arase received her B.E. (2006), M.I.S. (2007), and Ph.D. of Information Science (2010) from Osaka University, Japan. She joined Microsoft Research in Beijing as an associate researcher on April 2010. Since 2014, she is an associate professor at the graduate school of information science and technology, Osaka University. She has been working on natural language processing, specifically, English/Japanese machine translation, language resource construction, paraphrasing, conversation systems, and learning assistance for English as the second language learners.
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University. Her research interests include language understanding, dialogue systems, natural language processing, deep learning, and multimodality. She received Best Student Paper Awards from IEEE ASRU 2013 and IEEE SLT 2010 and a Student Best Paper Nominee from INTERSPEECH 2012. Chen earned the Ph.D. degree from School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 2015. Prior to joining National Taiwan University, she worked for Microsoft Research in the Deep Learning Technology Center. (http://vivianchen.idv.tw)