Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee was born on December 3, 1961 in Taipei, Taiwan. He earned a B.S. degree in computer science from Columbia University and a Ph.D in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. In 1988, he completed his doctoral dissertation on Sphinx, the first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system. Lee has written two books on speech recognition and more than 60 papers in computer science. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1988 as a Kluwer monograph, Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the Sphinx Recognition System. Together with Alex Waibel, another Carnegie Mellon researcher, Lee edited Readings in Speech Recognition.