Brief Biography


Qi (Peter) Li received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, in 1995.

 

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 hearing, speech and speaker recognition, biometric authentication, front-end signal processing, speech modeling, and multimedia systems; his research results were implemented in Lucent products. From 1988 to 1994, he was with 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. In 2002, he established Li Creative Technologies (LcT), Inc., Florham Park, NJ. LcT is a high-tech company is currently focusing on the R&D for signal processing, communications, and consumer electronic products. LcT has been awarded many research contracts by the U.S. government agencies. The company is currently conducting research in hearing protection, acoustic-signal processing and microphone array for handheld devices and computers, speaker recognition, new features for speech processing, data-driven prognostics, dynamic pattern recognition, etc. The company is also developing commercial products based on its new research results. In 2006, LcT received the Best Consumer Technology/Electronics Company Award issued by the New Jersey Technology Council at NJ Venture Capital Conference. He currently holds several issued patents and has filed more than one dozen patents. He has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is the author of the book Speaker Authentication which will be published by Springer in 2010.

 

Dr. Li has been active as a reviewer for several journals, IEEE publications, and conferences. 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 received the best paper award, an achievement award, and several Bell Labs patent awards. He is listed in Who’s Who in America (Millennium and 2001 Editions), Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals (2004 Edition), and Madison Who’s Who (2005 and 2006 Editions).   In 2004, he received the Success Award issued by the New Jersey Small Business Development Center. His awards, patents, and publications are listed on his personal home page: www.lilabs.com, and most of his publications can be downloaded from there.

 


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