Eric Chang
Assistant Managing Director
Microsoft Research Asia Advanced Technology Center

Eric Chang joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in July, 1999 to work in the area of speech technologies. Eric is currently the Assistant Managing Director of MSRA Advanced Technology Center, where his responsibilities include operation, program management, and projects that are centered around mobility.  Prior to his new responsibilities at ATC, Eric was the research manager of the speech group at MSRA and the acting University Relations Director for one year. A technology transfer result from his group is the Chinese version of Office XP, which incorporates the Mandarin speech recognition engine developed at Microsoft Research Asia.

Prior to joining Microsoft Research, Eric was one of the founding members of the Research group at Nuance Communications, a pioneer in natural speech interface software for telecommunication systems. While at Nuance, Eric worked on various projects involving confidence score generation, acoustic modeling, and robust speech detection. He also led the technical effort to develop the Japanese version of the Nuance product. This project led to the world's first deployed Japanese natural language speech recognition system. 

Eric has also developed speech recognition algorithms at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, invented a new circuit optimization technique at Toshiba ULSI Research Center, and conducted pattern recognition research at General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center.

Eric graduated from M.I.T. with Ph.D., Master and Bachelor degrees, all in the field of electrical engineering and computer science. While at M.I.T., he was inducted into the honorary societies Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. Eric is also a Senior Member of IEEE.

Eric has published papers in the fields of speech recognition, neural networks, and genetic algorithms in various journals and conferences. He is the author of several granted and pending patents. His research interests are spoken language understanding, machine learning, and signal processing.
　

Professional Activities:

Editorial Board Member, Computer Speech and Language.

Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University

Program Committee Member, 6th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication ((NCMMSC 2001).

Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing 2000.

Guest Lecturer, Tsinghua University and Peking University.

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, NIPS, Computer Speech and Language.

Publications:

Ph.D. thesis: Improving Wordspotting Performance with Limited Training Data

Papers from the speech group in the past years at MSR Asia

Some earlier papers related to Speech and Natural Language Processing from MSR Asia

Demos:

Our Mandarin Text to Speech System, Mulan