Brief Biography
Qi (Peter) Li received his Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston,
in 1995.
From 1988 to 1994, he worked at
F.M. Engineering and Research, Norwood,
MA, where he engaged in pattern
recognition, real-time systems, and networks. In 1991, he attended Harvard University to study statistical theory
and methods. From 1995 to 2002, he was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff in the Multimedia
Communications Research Lab, where his research was in speech and speaker
recognition, biometric authentication, front-end signal processing, speech
modeling, and multimedia systems; his research results were implemented in
Lucent products. In 2002, he established Li Creative Technologies (LcT), Inc., located in Florham Park, NJ.
LcT is a high-tech company in R&D for signal
processing, multimedia applications, and homeland security. LcT has been awarded several research contracts by
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), NAVY and MDA (Missile
Defense Agency) of the Department of Defense. The company is conducting
research in acoustic-signal processing for handheld devices, human computer
interaction, speaker and speech recognition, new features for speech
processing, data-driven prognostics, decision models and systems, etc. The
company is also developing products based on its new research results, and is interested
in licensing new techniques developed in the company for the industry.
Dr. Li is a senior member of IEEE. He
has been active as a reviewer for several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio
Processing. He has also been a Local Chair for the IEEE Workshop on
Automatic Identification and a committee member for several IEEE conferences
and workshops. He has received a best-paper award, an achievement award,
several Bell Labs patent awards, and the 2004 New Jersey Small Business Success
Award. Dr. Li is listed in Who's Who in
America (Millennium and 2001 Editions) and in Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals (2004 Edition).
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