Victor Waito Zue (born 1944) is a Chinese American computer scientist and professor at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

. From 1989 to 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. The group pioneered the development of many systems enabling interactions between human and computers using spoken language. Then, he served a ten-year tenure as Director of the Lab for Computer Science (LCS), and the Co-Director and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Since 2001, Victor has returned to teaching and research from the director position in 2011. He is also a distinguished research chair professor at NTU Taiwan.

Biography

Zue was born in

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

, China and raised in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

and

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

. He came to the US at age 18 to study at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

. He graduated with his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1968. He received his Sc.D. from the

in 1976. In the early part of his career, Zue studied acoustics, phonetics, and phonological properties of American English. His research interest shifted to the development of spoken language interfaces to make human-computer interactions easier and more natural. Between 1989 and 2001, he led the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. During this time, he helped lead development of the

TIMIT TIMIT is a corpus of phonemically and lexically transcribed speech of American English speakers of different sexes and dialects. Each transcribed element has been delineated in time. TIMIT was designed to further acoustic-phonetic knowledge and au ...

Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus. Zue collaborates with and is married to fellow MIT researcher Stephanie Seneff.

Honours and awards

Zue is a Fellow of the

Acoustical Society of America The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) is an international scientific society founded in 1929 dedicated to generating, disseminating and promoting the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications. The Society is primarily a voluntary org ...

, and a Fellow of the

International Speech Communication Association The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) is a non-profit organization and one of the two main professional associations for speech communication science and technology, the other association being the IEEE Signal Processing Societ ...

. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and an Academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.Victor Zue's profile on the Academia Sinica website
/ref> He received the Okawa Prize in 2012, and the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in 2013.

References

External references

Q&A with MIT's Victor Zue
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory people American computer scientists 1940s births Living people Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of Florida alumni Speech processing researchers Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America Chinese emigrants to the United States Scientists from Sichuan Chinese computer scientists {{US-edu-bio-stub