Doctoral advisor Mervyn Jack | Name Xuedong Huang | |
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Born October 20, 1962 (age 61)
Hunan, China ( 1962-10-20 ) Institutions Microsoft
Carnegie Mellon University Alma mater Hunan University
Tsinghua University
Edinburgh University Doctoral students Mei-Yuh Hwang
Roni Rosenfeld Notable awards 2011 Asian American Engineer of the Year
IEEE 1993 Paper Award
Allen Newell Research Excellence Medal Books Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development Education Tsinghua University, University of Edinburgh, Hunan University Fields Speech recognition, Voice over IP, Natural language processing, Software development People also search for Bill Gates, Mervyn Jack, Steve Ballmer | ||
Citizenship American (since 1995) Academic advisor Raj Reddy, Mervyn Jack | ||
Xuedong huang deep learning and intelligent applications machine learning prague 2016
Xuedong Huang (Simplified Chinese: 黄学东, b. October 20, 1962) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and the key person behind Microsoft's spoken language processing technologies. He is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and company's Chief Speech Scientist. Wired (magazine) named him one of 25 Geniuses in Next List 2016.
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- Xuedong huang deep learning and intelligent applications machine learning prague 2016
- Background
- Academic research
- Microsoft
- TV and books
- References
Background
Huang grew up in Hunan, China and became a US citizen in 1995. He received his B.S. degree in computer science from Hunan University in 1982, his MS in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1984, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 1989.
Academic research
He joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 and worked with Raj Reddy and Kai-Fu Lee on speech recognition. At CMU, Huang directed Sphinx-II speech system research and had the best overall performance in every category of DARPA's 1992 benchmarking. He received the Allen Newell research excellence medal for his leadership in speech recognition in 1992, and IEEE Speech Processing Best Paper Award in 1993. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2000.
Huang has co-authored over 100 papers and two books: Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition, (1987) and Spoken Language Processing, Prentice Hall](2000). In 2014 he coauthored a historical speech recognition review with Raj Reddy and James K. Baker for Communications of the ACM that reflected several generations of speech research. In 2016, he led his team reaching a historical human parity milestone in transcribing conversational speech on the Switchboard task.
Huang is the Honorary Dean and Professor of School of Software Engineering at his alma mater Hunan University. In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Microsoft
Huang has spent his career helping to advance spoken language and web search technologies in a variety of capacities. He is best known for founding and leading Microsoft's speech recognition initiatives. He is also known for his pioneering work on Microsoft's multimodal interactive MiPad prototype as Bill Gates demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in his keynote speech in 2001.
Huang was instrumental in introducing Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) and speech recognition/TTS technologies to the public. From 2000 to 2004, Huang served as the general manager of Microsoft's Speech Platforms Group and shipped Microsoft Speech Server and other voice technologies used in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Windows Mobile and Microsoft Exchange Server. Microsoft Response Point received 2009's Technology of the Year Awards as the best VOIP phone system from the InfoWorld Magazine. From 2009 to 2014, he served as the Architect for Bing and worked on massive scale machine learning on intent understanding, mobile, and ranking that enabled Bing's significantly improved search quality.
He is currently leading Microsoft's Speech and Language Group. He helped to initiate and ship Microsoft Cognitive Services and Cognitive Toolkit CNTK. The Speech and Dialog research group continues to advance core speech technologies used in Microsoft's products such as Microsoft Cortana and Microsoft Translator.