Li Deng

Li Deng, Ph.D., is the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Global Head of Machine Learning at Vatic Investments. Recognized as one of the world's leading experts in AI, speech technology, and machine learning. Dr. Deng was previously the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Head of Machine Learning at Citadel. Before that, he was the Chief Scientist of AI, Founder of the Deep Learning Technology Center, and Partner Research Manager at Microsoft for over 17 years. Dr. Deng is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering of Canada, the Academy of Sciences (Washington State), IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, and ISCA, among other technical societies. He has been honored with numerous awards for his pioneering AI research on disrupting speech recognition using large-scale deep learning.