Fri, 28 Oct, 07:30 - 08:30 UTC
Chair: Haizhou Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Dr. Xu Tan, Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia
Biography
Xu Tan is a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests cover deep learning, natural language processing, speech, and AI music. He has achieved human-level quality in machine translation and speech synthesis, and won several champions on WMT machine translation competition and Blizzard speech synthesis challenge. He has designed pre-trained language model MASS, text-to-speech system FastSpeech/NaturalSpeech, and AI music project Muzic, which receive broad attention in the community, and has transferred many research works to the important products (e.g., Azure, Bing) in Microsoft. He serves as the action editor or area chair of some AI journals/conferences (e.g., TMLR, NeurIPS, AAAI), and is an executive member of the committee on Speech, Dialogue and Auditory Processing and a member of the standing committee on Computational Art in China Computer Federation (CCF).