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 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-language large models, multimodal human–machine interaction, low-resource multilingual AI, medical speech intelligence, and AI-driven industrial systems, bridging fundamental research and large-scale deployment. He continues to work at the intersection of AI theory, system engineering, and industrial transformation, contributing to both academic advancement and real-world impact.
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