De Kai — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of its Founding Fellows for contributions to machine translation and inversion transduction grammar.
Serves as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST (since 1992) and Distinguished Research Scholar at ICSI (since 1987).
Pioneered and built the web's first global language translator, influencing systems like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Translate.
Author of 'Raising AI', published by MIT Press.
Serves as a Board Member at The Future Society, an AI ethics think tank, and was an inaugural member of Google's AI ethics council.
Holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Biography

De Kai is an AI professor who pioneered and built the web's first global language translator, a foundational technology that influenced systems such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Translate. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book 'Raising AI' from MIT Press. De Kai holds joint appointments as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST and as a Distinguished Research Scholar at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley.