Luong Chi Mai: Co-director of ICT department of USTH (Hanoi, Vietnam) Room 506, Education and Service Building 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Vietnam lcmai (at) ioit (dot) ac (dot) vn

Luong Chi Mai received her BSc from Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Kishinev University (Soviet Union former) in 1981, and PhD. from the Institute of Information Technology (IOIT) in 1991. She joined to Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, IOIT in 1982, since then she is working as a senior researcher and got her Associate Professor in 2005. During 1987-1990, she was associated as a visiting fellow with the International Basic Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Cybernetics, Slovak Academy of Science. Her research interests include pattern recognition, machine learning, speech recognition and synthesis. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). She has published numerous research papers in the field of pattern recognition applied for Vietnamese OCR, automatic speech recognition and synthesis and she served as a program committee member for a number of international and national research conferences on computer science. She received the Kovalevskaia Prize for her outstanding contribution on R&D in Vietnam in 2010.