Ming Li received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2013. He is currently a Professor of Electronical and Computer Engineering at Division of Natural and Applied Science and Principal Research Scientist at Digital Innovation Research Center at Duke Kunshan University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at School of Computer Science of Wuhan University. His research interests are in the areas of audio, speech and language processing as well as multimodal behavior signal analysis and interpretation. He has published more than 200 papers and served as the member of IEEE speech and language technical committee, CCF speech dialogue and auditory processing technical committee, CAAI affective intelligence technical committee, APSIPA speech and language processing technical committee. He was an area chair at Interspeech 2016, Interspeech 2018, Interspeech 2020, SLT2022, Interspeech 2024, Interspeech 2025, ASRU 2025. He is the technical program co-chair at Odyssey 2022 and ASRU 2023. He is an editorial member of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Computer Speech and Language and APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing. Works co-authored with his colleagues have won first prize awards at Interspeech Computational Paralinguistic Challenges 2011, 2012 and 2019, ASRU 2019 MGB-5 ADI Challenge, Interspeech 2020 and 2021 Fearless Steps Challenges, VoxSRC 2021, 2022 and 2023 Challenges, ICASSP 2022 M2MeT Challenge, IJCAI 2023 ADD challenge, ICME 2024 ChatCLR challenge and Interspeech 2024 AVSE challenge. As a co-author, he has won the best paper award in DCOSS2009 and ISCSLP2014 as well as the best paper shortlist in Interspeech 2024. He received the IBM faculty award in 2016, the ISCA Computer Speech and Language 5-years best journal paper award in 2018 and the youth achievement award of outstanding scientific research achievements of Chinese higher education in 2020. He is a senior member of IEEE.
