Yuan-Fu Liao received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1991, 1993, and 1998, respectively. From January 1999 to June 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication Engineering, NCTU. From September 1999 to February 2002, he served as a Research Engineer at Philips Research East Asia, Taiwan. From February 2002 to July 2022, he was affiliated with the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), Taipei, Taiwan.
Since August 2022, he has been affiliated with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the Industry Academia Innovation School, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), HsinChu, Taiwan. He currently holds a position as a full Professor and is jointly appointed by the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYCU.
His major research interests include Speech Signal Processing (speech, speaker, language, and emotion recognition; speech synthesis), Audio Signal Processing (speech enhancement, microphone array), Natural Language Processing (machine translation, large language models), Machine Learning (deep learning, deep neural networks), and Multi-modal Foundation Models with applications in robotics, medicine, and education.
