Recognized as a world's leading expert in AI, machine learning, quantitative finance, and speech and language technology, Dr. Li Deng is the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Vatic Investments.  He was previously the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Head of Machine Learning at Citadel Hedge Fund. Prior to Citadel, he was the Chief Scientist of AI and Founder of the Deep Learning Technology Center at Microsoft Corporation for over 17 years, and a Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada for 10 years. Dr. Deng is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering of Canada, the IEEE, and the Acoustical Society of America. He has been honored with numerous awards, including the 2019 IEEE SPS Industry Leader Award “For leadership in pioneering research and development on large-scale deep learning that disrupted worldwide speech recognition industry and for leadership in natural language processing and financial engineering,” and the 2015 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award for “Outstanding Contributions to Automatic Speech Recognition and to Deep Learning”.