PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Helen Meng

Also known as 蒙美玲, Meng Mei Ling, Helen Mei Ling Meng

Helen Meng is a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where her research interests include AI for speech and language technologies. She earned a PhD from MIT in 1995 and joined the university in 1998 as the first female faculty member of its systems engineering department. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing from 2009 to 2011, and she chaired the department from 2012 to 2018. She became an IEEE Fellow in 2013 and an ISCA Fellow in 2016, and she gave a talk at ICASSP 2021. As of October 2026, she holds the Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professorship.

Timeline

  1. 1983–1995

    A doctorate from MIT

    After finishing school in Hong Kong in 1983, she goes to MIT, where she earns a bachelor's degree in 1989, a master's degree in 1991 and a PhD in 1995.

  2. 1998

    Joining CUHK as faculty

    In 1998 she joins the Chinese University of Hong Kong as the first female faculty member of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.

  3. 2009–2011

    Editing an IEEE journal

    From 2009 to 2011, she is elected Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.

  4. 2012–2018

    Chairing the department

    Between 2012 and 2018 she chairs the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.

  5. 2013–2016

    IEEE and ISCA fellowships

    IEEE names her a Fellow in 2013 for contributions to spoken language and multimodal systems. In 2016 she is named an ISCA Fellow, one of 62 worldwide.

  6. 2019

    An award and an AI project

    She receives the IEEE Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award in 2019 for service to the Signal Processing Society. Her interdisciplinary team also wins the first Theme-based Research Scheme project in Artificial Intelligence in 2019.

  7. 2021

    A talk at ICASSP

    At ICASSP 2021 in Toronto, she gives a talk on technological equity in speech and language processing. The talk presents approaches to the challenges of data shortage.

  8. As of October 2026

    A named professorship at CUHK

    She is Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include AI for speech and language technologies that support multilingual and multimodal human-computer interaction.

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  1. Helen Meng - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. College Member Appointed as Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professorship of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | United News | United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong uc.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. IEEE ICASSP 2021 || Toronto, Ontario, Canada || 6-11 June 2021 2021.ieeeicassp.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Prof. MENG, Mei Ling, Helen 蒙 美 玲 教授 - Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK se.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. 46 SPS Members Elevated to IEEE Fellow | IEEE Signal Processing Society signalprocessingsociety.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. ISCA - ISCA Fellow Program isca-speech.org. Checked 14 October 2026.