I joined Microsoft in Oct 2005 and spent two years in Education Incubation Group where I worked on an incubation project of using computer games enhanced with new intelligence technologies including speech recognition to help children learn language. This project leads to a start-up company Sabi Inc. Before that, I obtained my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1998, M.S. in Signal and Information Processing from Peking University in 2001, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005. My Ph.D. advisor is Dr. Yunxin Zhao. I also did a summer internship in MSR Speech Group under the mentorship of Dr. Li Deng.
Now I am a Research Software Design Engineer in Search Quality Group at Microsoft Research - ISRC (Internet Services Research Center). My research interests include data-mining and machine-learning for improving Live search engine, language modeling, fast decoding engine for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR), children's speech recognition and Automatic Reading Tutor, etc.
My hobbies include swimming, Tai-Chi, Ping-Pong, music and literature. Check my personl blog, more photos and full publications in http://xunxiao.spaces.live.com.
- Xiaolong Li and Yunxin Zhao, A Fast and Memory-Efficient N-gram Language Model Lookup Method for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition, in Computer Speech and Language, vol. 21, pp. 1-25, Elsevier , January 2007
- Yunxin Zhao, Rong Hu, and Xiaolong Li, Speedup Convergence And Reduce Noise For Enhanced Speech Separation And Recognition, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., July 2006
- Kuansan Wang and Xiaolong Li, Efficacy of A Constantly Adaptive Language Modeling Technique for Web-Scale Applications, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2009), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009
- Xiaolong Li, Li Deng, Yun-Cheng Ju, and Alex Acero, Automatic Children's Reading Tutor on Hand-Held Devices, in Proceedings of Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008
- Xiaolong Li, Yun-Cheng Ju, Li Deng, and Alex Acero, Efficient and Robust Language Modeling in an Automatic Children's Reading Tutor System, in Proceedings of IEEE Internaltional Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 18 April 2007
- Xiaolong Li, Li Deng, Dong Yu, and Alex Acero, A Time-Synchronous Phonetic Decoder For A Long-Contextual-Span Hidden Trajectory Model, in Proceedings of International Conference on Speech Communication (InterSpeech), 2006, International Speech Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 19 September 2006
- Rusheng Hu, Xiaolong Li, and Yunxin Zhao, Gradient Boosting Learning of Hidden Markov Models, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'06), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Toulouse, France, May 2006
- Yunxin Zhao, X. Zhang, Rusheng Hu, Jian Xue, Xiaolong Li, Lili Che, Rong Hu, and Laura Schopp, An automatic captioning system for telemedicine, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2006), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Toulouse, France, May 2004
- Li Deng, Dong Yu, Xiaolong Li, and Alex Acero, A Long-Contextual-Span Model of Resonance Dynamics for Speech Recognition: Parameter Learning and Recognizer Evaluation, in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Puerto Rico, November 2005
- Rusheng Hu, Xiaolong Li, and Yunxin Zhao, Acoustic Modeling Using Greedy EM, in Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'05), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 22 March 2005
- Xiaolong Li and Yunxin Zhao, Exploiting Order-Preserving Minimum Perfect Hashing to Speedup N-gram Language Model Lookahead, in Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EuroSpeech'03), International Speech Communication Association, September 2003
- Xiaolong Li and Ke Chen, Mandarin Verbal Information Verification, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2002), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., May 2002
