Dr Hu Yu, co-founder of intelligent speech and artificial intelligence publicly-listed company iFLYTEK (科大讯飞), came to UIC on 29 September and gave a lecture on the origin, current research, and development prospects of artificial intelligence.

Students raise questions after the talk

Dr Hu Yu

Dr Hu Yu is also the chief expert of the human intelligence key project of the National High-tech R&D Programme of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the executive director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing.

Associate Dean of the Division of Science and Technology Dr Ricky Yuen-Tan Hou presents a souvenir to Dr Hu Yu

Group photo of Dr Hu Yu and UIC faculty members

From MPRO & DST

Reporter: Covee Wang

Photographer: Peng Zigui

Editor: Deen He