Author of the forthcoming book “Artificial Children”, Dr. De Kai works across disciplines in language, music, artificial intelligence and cognition. A distinguished research scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, his PhD thesis was one of the first to construct probabilistic machines that learn to understand human languages.
He is one of 17 scientists worldwide named as a Founding Fellow by the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Recruited directly from Berkeley as founding faculty of the now world-ranked Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, he started HKUST’s internationally-funded Human Language Technology Center, shaping new language and music AI paradigms.
Recognized as one of the 100 most influential figures in Hong Kong by Debrett’s, he was also one of eight inaugural members selected by Google in 2019 for its AI ethics council ATEAC (Advanced Technology External Advisory Council). www.dekai.org
