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霍强博士于2007年8月加入微软亚洲研究院，任语音组主任研究员。此前在香港大学计算机科学系任教近十年。他于1995-1997年期间在日本京都“国际先端通信技术研究所”（ATR）从事语音识别研究并参与了世界上首个口语机器自动翻译项目。过去20多年来，他一直坚持研究，为语音识别、手写识别、光学字符识别、基于生物特征的用户识别、语音图像处理和计算机视觉的硬件设计等领域做出重要贡献。
Dr. Qiang Huo joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China on August 1, 2007 and serves as the Research Manager for the Speech Group of MSRA now. From 1998 to 2007, Qiang was a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU). From 1995 to 1997, Qiang worked at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) in Kyoto, Japan, where he engaged in research in speech recognition for ATR’s Spoken Language Translation project. From 1991 to 1994, Qiang did his Ph.D. thesis research on speech recognition at HKU. Over the past 30 years, Qiang has been active in research and making contributions in the fields of speech recognition, handwriting recognition, OCR, gesture recognition, biometric-based user authentication, hardware design for speech and image processing. Qiang received a B.Eng. degree from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, in 1987, an M.Eng. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree from USTC, in 1994, all in electrical engineering.
