À propos
Yifan Gong is a Principal Scientist Architect with the Microsoft AI Services, developing multi-modality machine learning and speech-to-text modeling technologies and tools for customers across scenarios/tasks, languages and acoustic environments for both cloud and mobile devices. As a Principal Scientist Architect, Yifan provides expertise and leadership in research, architecture and collaboration.
Products he and his group have delivered include Microsoft Azure AI Speech API, meeting caption/transcriptions and translation, multi-channel speaker attribution and diarization, digital voice assistant applications including Cortana/XBox.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, he worked as Senior Research Scientist at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS, France) and then Senior Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments.
Yifan received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Nancy I, France.
He authored and co-authored 300+ publications in books, journals, conferences, and ~100 granted patents (opens in new tab).
IEEE Fellow, Yifan served on the Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Directions Board, (opens in new tab) Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SLTC (Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (opens in new tab)) for several terms (1998-2002, 2012-2016, 2017-2019, 2022-2024), and Chair (2023-2024) of SLTC (currently VC).