Keynote Speakers

Hung-yi Lee (李宏毅) is a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), with a joint appointment at the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering of the university. His recent research focuses on developing technology that can reduce the requirement of annotated data for speech processing (including voice conversion and speech recognition) and natural language processing (including abstractive summarization and question answering). He won Salesforce Research Deep Learning Grant in 2019, AWS ML Research Award in 2020, Outstanding Young Engineer Award from The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2018, Young Scholar Innovation Award from Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship in 2019, Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan in 2019, and The 59th Ten Outstanding Young Person Award in Science and Technology Research & Development of Taiwan. He owns a YouTube channel teaching deep learning technology in Marian, which has more than 300,000 subscribers.

Noah A. Smith is a researcher in natural language processing and machine learning, serving as the Amazon Professor at the University of Washington and Senior Director of NLP Research at the Allen Institute for AI. He co-directs the OLMo open language modeling initiative. His current work spans language, music, and AI research methodology, with a strong emphasis on mentoring—his former mentees now hold faculty and leadership roles worldwide. Smith is a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics and has received numerous awards for research and innovation. More up-to-date information can be found at https://nasmith.github.io/.