Prof Pascale Fung

Professor
Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Prof Fung received her PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1997. She worked and studied at AT&T Bell Labs (1993-1997), BBN Systems & Technologies (1992), LIMSI, CNRS, France (1991), Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, Japan (1989-1991), and at Ecole Centrale Paris, France (1988). Her research interests lie in building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans. To achieve this goal, her specific areas of research are statistical natural language processing, spoken language systems, emotion and sentiment recognition, and predictive analytics.