Victor Zue

Career

From 1989 to 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science. The group pioneered the development of many systems enabling interactions between human and computers using spoken language. Then, he served a ten-year tenure as Director of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), and the Company-Director and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Since 2001, Victor has returned to teaching and research from the director position in 2011.

Zue was born in Sichuan, China and raised in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He came to the United States at age 18, while started studying in the University of Florida.

Q&A with Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Victor Zue.

Achievements

• Professor Zue is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association. He is an elected member of the United States. National Academy of Engineering, and an Academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He received the Okawa Prize in 2012, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in 2013.

Membership

He is an elected member of the United States. National Academy of Engineering, and an Academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.