Helen Meng is Professor in the CUHK Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. She also serves as Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Engineering. She received her S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of the CUHK Faculty of Engineering Exemplary Teaching Award 2001, Service Award for establishing the Worldwide Engineering Undergraduate Exchange Program in 2004, the Young Researcher Award in 2006, as well as the Ministry of Education of China (MoE) Outstanding Scientific Research Award 2009 in Technological Advancement. Her current professional services include: Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and Elected Board Member of the International Speech Communication Association. Local services include: Member of the HKSAR Government Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee, the Working Group on Chinese Information Processing, the Task Force on Facilitating the Adoption of Wireless and Mobile Services and Technology and the Central Committee on IT for Rehabilitation Services. Helen is a Fellow Member of the Hong Kong Computer Society. She has served as Director of Training and Education and subsequently Director of Membership Services in the HKCS Council, as well as in the program committees of HKICC and JICC in recent years.