Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management

In addition to his current position at CUHK, Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon holds adjunct professorship at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, Shanghai Shanghai Jiao-Tong University in Shanghai, University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Huazhong University of Science & Technology in Wuhan, and Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon is a general manager of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). He is supervising research in information retrieval, data mining, information retrieval, speech, natural language processing, multimedia search and newly established search technology center (STC). In addition to research activities, Dr. Hon manages all MSN/Live Search product development in China. Before joining MSRA, Dr. Hon was the Architect in Natural Interaction Service Division at Microsoft Corporation; overseeing all architectural and technical aspects of the award winning Microsoft(r) Speech Server product (Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Enterprise Infrastructure Product of the Year Award, Speech Technology Magazine's 2004 Most Innovative Solutions Awards and VSLive! 2004 Editors Choice Award.), Natural User Interface Platform and Microsoft Assistance Platform. Dr. Hon joined Microsoft Research as a senior researcher at 1991 and has been one of the key contributors of Microsoft's SAPI and speech engine technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Dr. Hon worked at Apple Computer, Inc., where he was a principal researcher and technology supervisor at Apple-ISS research center. Dr. Hon led the research and development for Apple's' Chinese Dictation Kit, which receives exceptional reviews from many industrial publications and a handful of prestigious rewards, including Comdex Asia'96 Best software product medal, Comdex Asia'96 Best of the Best medal and Singapore National Technology award.

Dr. Hon received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University; and M.S. & PhD degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. While at CMU, Dr. Hon is the co-inventor of CMU SPHINX system on which many commercial speech recognition systems are based on, including Microsoft and Apple. Dr. Hon is an international recognized speech technologist and has published more than 100 technical papers in various international journals and conferences. He also co-authored the "Spoken Language Processing" book that has been used as a graduate-level textbook and reference book in the area of speech technology in many universities all over the world. He has also been serving as chairs and reviewers for many international conferences and journals. Dr. Hon holds 36 patents in various technical areas.

Data Mining

Information Retrieval and Web Search

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing

Speech Recognition and Synthesis

Spoken Language Processing

W Gao, C Niu, J.Y. Nie, M Zhou, J Hu, K-F Wong, HW Hon "Cross-Lingual Query Suggestion Using Query Logs of Different Languages", 30th annual international ACM SIGIR-2007 conference, Amsterdam, Holland

R Song, Z Luo, JR Wen, Y Yu, HW Hon "Identifying ambiguous queries in web search", Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Y Cao, J Xu, TY Liu, H Li, Y Huang, HW Hon "Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval", 29th annual international AM SIGIR-2006 conference, Seattle, WA

HW Hon, "Multimedia search - Microsoft's perspective", 2006 12th International Multi-Media Modeling Conference Proceedings

WY Ma, HJ Zhang, HW Hon, "Towards Next Generation Web Information Retrieval", the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2004, Brisbane, Australia

L. Deng, Y. Wang, K. Wang, A. Acero, H. Hon, et. al. "Speech and Language Processing for Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction,''Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (Special issue on Real-World Speech Processing), 2004

A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development, by X. Huang, A. Acero, H. Hon. Prentice-Hall, 2001.

L. Deng, K. Wang, A. Acero, H. Hon, et al. ``Distributed Speech Processing in MiPad's Multimodal User Interface'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2002

H. Hon. and K. Wang. "Unified Frame and Segment Based Models for Automatic Speech Recognition."International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing 2000

Hon, H.-W. and K. Wang. Combining Frame And Segment Based Models For Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. in IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop. 1999. Keystone, CO

A. Gunawardana, H. Hon and L. Jiang. "Word-based acoustic confidence measures for large-vocabulary speech recognition." International Conference on Spoken Language Processing -1998.

Hon, H., et al. Automatic Generation of Synthesis Units for Trainable Text-to-Speech Systems. in International Conference on Acoustic, Signal and Speech Processing. 1998. Seattle, WA.

Hon, H.-W., Y. Ju, and K. Otani. Japanese Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition System Based on Microsoft Whisper. in The 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. 1998. Sydney, Australia.