Ming Li received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke Kunshan University. His research interests are in the areas of audio, speech and language processing as well as multimodal behavior signal analysis and interpretation. He has published more than 130 papers and served as the member of IEEE speech and language technical committee, CCF speech language and hearing committee, CAAI artificial psychology and affective computing committee, APSIPA speech and language processing committee. He was the area chair of speaker and language recognition at Interspeech 2016, 2018 and 2020. Works co-authored with his colleagues have won first prize awards at Body Computing Slam Contest 2009, Interspeech Computational Paralinguistic Challenge 2011, 2012 and 2019, ASRU 2019 MGB-5, Interspeech 2020 and 2021 fearless steps challenge. He received the IBM faculty award in 2016, the ISCA computer speech and language best journal paper award in 2018 and the youth achievement award of outstanding achievements of scientific research in higher education in 2020.