Xuedong Huang
| Xuedong Huang | |
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| Born |
October 20, 1962 Hunan, China |
| Citizenship | American (since 1995) |
| Fields |
Speech Recognition VOIP Natural Language Processing Software Development |
| Institutions |
Microsoft Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater |
Hunan University Tsinghua University Edinburgh University |
| Doctoral advisor | Mervyn Jack |
| Doctoral students | Mei-Yuh Hwang Roni Rosenfeld |
| Notable awards |
Wired Magazine Next List 2016 2011 Asian American Engineer of the Year IEEE 1993 Paper Award Allen Newell Research Excellence Medal |
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.
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.
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.
Huang is the Honorary Dean and Professor of School of Software Engineering at his alma mater Hunan University.
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.
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