Dr Minghui Dong
Shenzhen Loop Area Institute National Leading Talent
Research Interests: Speech generation, speech understanding, multimodal interaction, large models and agents, social intelligence
Dr. Minghui Dong is a National Leading Talent and an Associate Professor at the Center for Language, Intelligence and Machines, Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, which he joined in June 2026. He is an internationally recognized expert in speech and language processing, multimodal intelligence, and interactive AI systems, with more than two decades of research and system-building experience spanning academia, national research institutes, and industry.
Dr. Dong received his B.Sc. from the University of Science and Technology of China, M.Sc. from Peking University, and Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. From 2004 to 2024, he served as Principal Scientist and Head of the Speech Generation and Understanding Laboratory at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), A*STAR, Singapore, where he led research programs in text-to-speech, voice conversion, multilingual speech technologies, multimodal affective computing, dialogue systems, and medical speech AI. From 2024 to 2026, he served as Chief Scientist and Professor at the Longgang Institute, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, working on the application of AI technologies in the manufacturing industry.
His research has resulted in over 120 peer-reviewed publications and multiple international patents, with technologies deployed in education, healthcare, defense, public services, and intelligent manufacturing. He has led or co-led more than 20 government- and industry-funded projects, and has driven the translation of speech and language technologies into real-world systems across Asia.
Dr. Dong has played a prominent leadership role in the international research community. He currently serves as Vice President of COLIPS, Chair of ISCA SIG-CSLP, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Asian Language Processing (IJALP), and is a former President of PREMIA and Governing Board Member of IAPR. He has chaired or organized 30+ major international conferences, including ICASSP, SLT, IJCNLP-AACL, Interspeech, ISCSLP, IALP, CLSW, and APSIPA.
His current research interests focus on speech generation, speech understanding, multimodal interaction, large models and agents, and social intelligence, extending to interdisciplinary fields such as AI + healthcare, transportation, finance, public opinion, and social governance. He continues to work at the intersection of AI theory, system engineering, and industrial transformation, contributing to both academic advancement and real-world impact.
Interdisciplinary fields: AI + healthcare, transportation, finance, public opinion, social governance, etc.
Key roles at 30+ international conferences; selected below:
Flagship conferences: Special Session Chair, APSIPA 2025; Program Committee Chair, SLT 2024; Publication Chair, IJCNLP-AACL 2023; Operations Chair, ICASSP 2022; Area Chair (TTS), INTERSPEECH 2014; Publicity Chair, COLING 2010; Organization Chair, ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Core speech & language conferences: Program Chair, NCMMSC 2026; General Chair, ISCSLP 2022 / Program Chair, ISCSLP 2014; Conference Chair, TAI 2023; Organizing Chair, Oriental-COCOSDA 2021; Organizing Chair, IWSDS 2021; Local Organizing Chair, Blizzard Challenge 2014
Asian language processing series: General / Program Chair of multiple editions of IALP (2008–2026); Chair / Program Chair of four editions of CLSW (2008, 2009, 2016, 2023); Program Chair, PACLIC (2006, 2011); Organizing Chair, ICCPOL 2006
Interdisciplinary conferences: Industry Chair, ICSR 2024; Industry Chair, CIS-RAM 2024; Organizing Chair, ICAICTA 2024; Program Chair, ICOT 2017
Served as chair or organizer for the following events:
Served as technical reviewer or program committee member for the following journals and conferences: