Pak-Chung Ching

Pak-Chung Ching is the Vice-President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received the B. Eng. (First-Class Honors) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Liverpool, UK, in 1977 and 1981 respectively. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering of CUHK in 1984, where he is currently a chair professor. P.C. Ching was the Department Chairman from 1995 to 1997 and was elected Dean of Engineering for two terms between 1997 and 2003.  He was the Head of Shaw College during 2004 – 2008. He is the Director of the Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering.

P.C. Ching’s research interests include signal processing for communications, speech signal processing and spoken language technologies. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 1997 to 2000 and IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2001 to 2003, and a member of the Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 1996 to 2004. P.C. Ching was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the HKIE Transactions between 2001 and 2004. He was the Vice-Chairman of the organizing Committee for the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, and the Technical Program Chair for the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. P.C. Ching was a past chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Section.

P.C. Ching is presently a member of the Governing Council of the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency and a panel member of the Research Grants Council. He was a member of the Consumer Council and the Chairman of the Hong Kong Accreditation Advisory Board from 2000 to 2006. He is a Guest Professor at the Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Southeast University and Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Helen Meng

Helen Meng is the Associate Dean of Research of the Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She is also a professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, where she serves as Founding Director of the Human-Computer Communications Laboratory in 1998. In 2005, she established the Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-centric Computing and Interface Technologies (MS-CU-JL), which achieved the status of China’s Ministry of Education National Key Laboratory in 2008. Helen received her S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees, all in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Helen's research interest is multilingual speech and language technologies, covering the perspectives of multimodal human-computer interactions, biometric authentication and multimedia information retrieval.

Helen’s professional services include Editor-in-Chief-elect of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing; Editorial Board Member of Speech Communication, as well as Computer Speech & Language. Helen is an Elected Member of the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Board and Review Panel Member of the Swiss National Science Foundation NCCR. Helen has received the Exemplary Teaching Award in 2001, Service Award in 2004 and the Young Researcher Award 2006 from CUHK Faculty of Engineering. She is former Chair of the Association of Computing Machinery (Hong Kong Chapter), as well as Guest Professor of Tsinghua University and Fudan University’s Key Laboratory in Intelligent Information Processing.

Tan Lee

Tan Lee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his BSc and MPhil degrees in Electronics in 1988 and 1990 respectively, and his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering in 1996, all from CUHK. Tan Lee was a guest researcher at the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, during 1997-1998. Since 1999, he has been a faculty member at the Department of Electronic Engineering of CUHK. Currently he is in charge of the DSP and Speech Technology Laboratory. Tan Lee’s research covers many different areas of speech and audio processing, including automatic speech and speaker recognition, text-to-speech, tone modeling for Chinese, speech enhancement for hearing prostheses, and music signal processing. He initiated and coordinated a number of pioneering projects on the research and development of Chinese spoken language technologies in Hong Kong. Tan Lee was a recipient of the CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award in 2004. He is a member of IEEE and a member of ISCA. He was the Chairman of IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing during 2005 - 2006.  He is an associate editor of the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing.