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[Sep 25, 2013] Professor Li Haizhou and his team received President’s Technology Award 2013. Congratulations!
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Professor Li Haizhou (ISCA SIG CSLP President) and his team, Dr Ma Bin, Ms Aw Ai Ti and Dr Su Jian, from Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) of Singapore made a remarkable breakthrough in speech recognition and machine translation.  

For their outstanding contributions to human language technology that have empowered the industry and benefited the Asian society, they are awarded the President’s Technology Award 2013. The President’s Technology Award (PTA) is the highest honour bestowed on exceptional research scientists and engineers in Singapore for their excellent achievements in science and technology.

Professor Li and his team received the Award from His Excellency Dr Tony Tan, the President of the Republic of Singapore, on 25 September 2013. They are the only award winner of PTA in 2013.