Dean
Lin-shan Lee (2009.8.1-present)
- Phone: +886-2-23678315
- FAX: +886-2-23697886
- Email: lslee@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
- Personal Homepage: http://speech.ee.ntu.edu.tw/previous_version/lslNew.htm
Biography
Lin-shan Lee received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1974, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1975 and 1977, respectively. After working in California in the industry from 1977 to 1979 on communications technology, he became an associate professor of National Taiwan University in 1979, and has been a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the university since 1982. He was a department head of the university from 1982 to 1987, and serves as the dean of college of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the university since 2009. He also served as the chair of the Commission on Research and Development of the university from 2002 to 2005. He holds a joint appointment with the Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica as a research fellow starting in 1985, and was the director of the institute from 1991 to 1997. His research interests include various topics in digital communications such as digital transmission theory and signal processing for communications, as well as spoken language processing including speech recognition and transcription, text-to-speech synthesis, spoken dialogue, and spoken document understanding and retrieval.
He served on various positions of IEEE Communications Society, including regional chair for Asia Pacific (1994-1995), member of the Board of Governors (1994-1997), Vice President for International Affairs (1996-1997) and the Awards Committee chair (1998-1999). He was the general co-chair of IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications 1996 (PIMRC’96) at Taipei, and the Technical Program Chair of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) 2002 at Taipei.
He developed quite several earliest versions of Chinese spoken language processing system in the world, including text-to-speech systems (since 1984), a natural language analyzer (1986), dictation systems(1991 and 1993 for isolated syllable input, 1995 for continuous speech input), spoken document retrieval systems (since 1997), and spoken dialogue systems (since 1998). He has been a member of the Permanent Council of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP)(1994-2004), and was the Vice Chair of Technical Program Committee of the conference in year 2000 at Beijing. He served as a Board member of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) (2001-2009). He also served as the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Signal Processing Society (2007-2008) on Speech Signal Processing Topics, an associate editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2003-2006), a member of the Overview Paper Editorial Board of IEEE Signal Processing Society (since 2009), and the general chair of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2009 at Taipei.
He authored substantially in international journals and conferences, and has many domestic and international patents. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1992 with citation, “For Contributions to Computer Voice Input/Output Techniques for Mandarin Chinese and Engineering Education”. He is the recipient of the Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Electrical Engineering sponsored by the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers at Taipei in 1991, the Award for Distinguished Academic Contributions in Engineering sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, Republic of China in 1993, the Outstanding Scholar Award sponsored by the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship at Taipei in 2002, and the National Chair Professorship of the country in 2004 and 2007.
