Dr Chao Zhang received his B.E. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science & Technology from Tsinghua University and received his PhD degree in Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Before joining Google, he was a Research Associate at Cambridge University and an Advisor and Speech Team Co-leader at JD AI Research. He has published 60 peer-reviewed papers in speech and language processing and received the best student paper awards from ICASSP 2014, ASRU 2019, and SLT 2021. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and a member of multiple technical committees.