Dr Haizhou Li is currently the Principal Scientist and Department Head of Human Language Technology at the Institute for Infocomm Research. He is also the Program Manager of Social Robotics at the Science and Engineering Research Council of A*Star in Singapore.

Dr Li has worked on speech and language technology in academia and industry since1988. He taught in the University of Hong Kong (1988-1990), South China University of Technology (1990-1994), and Nanyang Technological University (2006-). He was a Visiting Professor at CRIN/INRIA in France (1994-1995), and at the University of New South Wales in Australia (2008). As a technologist, he was appointed as Research Manager in Apple-ISS Research Centre (1996-1998), Research Director in Lernout & Hauspie Asia Pacific (1999-2001), and Vice President in InfoTalk Corp. Ltd (2001-2003).

Dr Li's research interests include automatic speech recognition, natural language processing and information retrieval. He has published over 150 technical papers in international journals and conferences. He holds five international patents. Dr Li now serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, and Springer International Journal of Social Robotics. He is an elected Board Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, 2009-2013), a Vice President of the Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society (COLIPS, 2009-2011), an Executive Board Member of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP, 2006-2010), and a Senior Member of IEEE since 2001. Dr Li was the local arrangement chair of SIGIR 2008 and ACL-IJCNLP 2009. He was the recipient of National Infocomm Award of Singapore in 2001. He was named one of the two Nokia Professors 2009 by Nokia Foundation in recognition of his contribution to speaker and language recognition technologies.