Helen Meng is Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She also serves as Associate Dean of Research for the CUHK Faculty of Engineering. She also serves as the Founding Director of the Human-Computer Communications Laboratory, Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-centric Computing and Interface Technologies, as well as the Tsinghua-CUHK Joint Media Research Center. Helen received her S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees, all in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Helen's research interest is in interface and media technologies for mobile, multimodal and multilingual computing. Helen has been Fellow of United College at CUHK and Guest Professor in Tsinghua University and Fudan University. Her professional services include such international appointments as Editor-in-Chief-elect of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing; former Elected Member of the IEEE Speech Technical Committee and Conference Board Representative and Member of the W3C Voice Browser Working Group promoting SSML internationalization. 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. She is former Chair of the Association of Computing Machinery (Hong Kong Chapter), Program Chair of the Hong Kong Computer Society's Joint International Computer Conference 2006 and Vice-Chair of the Program Committee of the Hong Kong International Computer Conference 2008.