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Xiaodong He

Xiaodong He
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Background and Interests

Xiaodong He is a researcher in the Speech Technology Group of Microsoft Research Redmond. He received the BS degree from Tsinghua University (Beijing) in 1996 and the PhD degree from University of Missouri - Columbia in 2003.

His research interests include machine learning, speech recognition, translation, and understanding, machine translation, natural language processing, and information retrieval. He has authored/coauthored more than 40 papers and one book in these areas. In benchmark evaluations, he and his colleagues developed Chinese-English machine translation entries that obtained No. 1 place in the 2008 NIST MT Evaluation  and No. 1 place in the 2011 IWSLT Evaluation, respectively.

He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACL. He is an associate editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He was a Co-Chair of the NIPS 2008 Workshop on Speech and Language and the lead guest editor of the IEEE J-STSP special issue on Speech and Language Processing

Special Issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

The Special Issue on Statistical Learning Methods for Speech and Language Processing was published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing in December, 2010.

NIPS 2008 Workshop

The NIPS 2008 workshop on Speech and Language: Learning-based Methods and Systems covers a variety of advanced topics in the Speech and Language Processing area. More details can be found at the workshop's homepage NIPS08 WSL(a)

Academic Services

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, on Statistical Learning Methods for Speech and Language Processing
  • Co-Chair, NIPS 2008 Workshop on Speech and Language: Learning-Based Methods and Systems, Whistler, BC, Canada, 2008
  • Program Committee Member: ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, IEEE-ICSC, ISCSLP.
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Computer, Speech Communication, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, ICASSP, Interspeech

Honors and Awards

  • ICASSP 2011 Best Student Paper Award received by Yaodong Zhang for the paper co-authored with Li Deng, Xiaodong He, Alex Acero
  • IEEE senior member since 2008
  • Gold Star Award from Microsoft, 2005
  • Patent awards from Microsoft in 2005-2011
  • Technology Transfer Award in 2009
  • Member of Sigma Xi since 2002
  • Award of student author grant, Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, 2002
  • Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, University of Missouri, 2001
  • Prizes in the 13rd & 14th "Challenge Cup" Sci & Tech Innovation Competition, Tsinghua University, 1995,1996

Contact

E-mail: xiaohe@microsoft.com
U.S.Mail: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052-6399, USA
Tel: (425) 706-4939
Fax: (425) 706-7329 (This is the main MS FAX number so make sure to send documents to Xiaodong He's attention)

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