Chin-Hui Lee received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1973, his master’s in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University in 1977, and his doctorate in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Statistics from the University of Washington in 1981.
After graduation, Dr. Lee joined Verbex Corporation where he conducted research on connected word recognition. In 1984, he became affiliated with Digital Sound Corporation where he was engaged in research and product development in speech coding, speech synthesis, speech recognition and signal processing. From 1986 to 2001, he was with Bell Laboratories where he became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Director of the Dialogue Systems Research Department.
In August 2001, he accepted a one-year appointment as a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s School of Computing. He joined the ECE faculty in September 2002.
Dr. Lee has published more than 250 papers and holds 25 patents. He edited the book Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition: Advanced Topics, and has contributed chapters to ten books.
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 1981
- M.S., Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, 1977
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1973
Professor Lee’s research interests focus on signal processing and machine learning methods applied to speech and language processing. His work spans statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and developing algorithms for speech recognition, natural language understanding, and robust communication systems. He investigates computational techniques that improve machine comprehension and communication.
Professor Lee’s teaching interests include signal processing, machine learning, and speech and language technologies at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He emphasizes foundational and advanced concepts in these areas, preparing students for research and practical applications. His instruction also covers interdisciplinary topics that integrate electrical and computer engineering with computational linguistics and AI.
- Fellow, IEEE
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer Award, 2000
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Senior Award, 1994
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 1997 and 1999
- Bell Laboratories President’s Gold Award, 1997
- Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society and Communication Society
- Member, International Speech Communication Association
- Lifetime Member, Computational Linguistics Society, Taiwan
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 1991-93
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 1993-95
- Chairman, IEEE SPS Speech Processing Technical Committee, 1996-98
- Member, IEEE SPS Speech Processing Technical Committee, 1994-98
- Member, APRA Spoken Language Coordination Committee, 1991-95
- Member, Permanent Council, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000-04
- Founding member, SPS Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee
- H. Hu, S. M. Siniscalchi, C.-H. H. Yang, C.-H. Lee, Variational Bayesian Learning for Deep Latent Variables for Acoustic Knowledge Transfer, IEEE/ACM TASLP, 2025
- J. Qi, J. Du, S. M. Siniscalchi, X. Ma, C.-H. Lee, On Mean Absolute Errors for Deep Neural Network Vector‑to‑Vector Regression,IEEE SPL, 2020
- S. Shakil, C.-H. Lee, S.D. Keiholz, Math Formulation of Frequency Dependencies in Sliding Window Correlation, IEEE TBME, 2018
- B. Wu, K. Li, M. Yang, C.-H. Lee, Reverberant‑Time‑Aware Speech Dereverberation, IEEE/ACM TASLP, 2017
- Z. Huang, S. M. Siniscalchi, C.-H. Lee, Hierarchical Bayesian Combinations..., Pattern Recognition Letters, 2017