Ming Li
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke Kunshan University

Ming Li received his B.S. degree in communication engineering from Nanjing University, China, in 2005 and his M.S. degree in signal processing from the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2008. He joined the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) at USC on a Provost fellowship in 2008 and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in May 2013. He is currently an associate professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering of Duke Kunshan University and a research scholar at ECE department of Duke University.  His research interests are in the areas of speech processing and multimodal behavior signal analysis with applications to human centered behavioral informatics notably in health, education and security. He has published more than 80 papers and served as scientific committee members and reviewers for multiple conferences and journals. He servers as the area chair of speaker and language recognition on Interspeech 2016 and Interspeech 2018. Works co-authored with his colleagues have won awards at Body Computing Slam Contest 2009, IEEE DCOSS 2009, Interspeech 2011 Speaker State Challenge, Interspeech 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge, and ISCSLP 2014 best paper award. He received the IBM faculty award in 2016 and ISCA computer speech and language best journal paper award in 2018.

Current Research Interests

speech and language processing, multimodal behavior signal processing, affective computing

ming.li369@duke.edu

Current Appointments & Affiliations

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